Charter Statement – AQIP Greenies (draft)
This group exists to raise awareness and increase involvement in a campus sustainability plan to reduce
wasteful campus use of resources, materials (including campus grounds), and energy, in order to inspire
and motivate Mott employees to help lower operating costs and move the College into a responsible
stewardship role. Our goal is for our work to help MCC to be recognized as a model organization in this
area, showing strong leadership on environmental issues.
Our group benefits from conducting its work at an institution with a culture that reflects pride in its
campuses, with a creative, knowledgeable, and committed group of staff and students possessing the
skills to accomplish and implement our ideas via a strong technology base. However, the college culture
also includes some employees working in relative seclusion and unaware of what others are doing. We
also face challenges in having no policies currently in place to give us broad direction, nor do we have a
clear sense of financial limitations, timeline feasibility, or levels of administrative support.
Within these constraints we will focus on ways to publicize existing sustainability efforts and processes
to reduce the college’s waste streams and identify potential for the College to make further reductions.
Methods for doing this will primarily include researching and modeling best practices that we can
recommend in the area of green initiatives and recycling in order for MCC to be a leader in this area.
Based on our research findings, the group will make recommendations to the Board and Administration
for the creation of an effective sustainability policy and procedures, ideally through expansion of the
existing GrIT group and initiatives. ???
We will focus on determining ways to support existing GrIT resources and employ the College web site
and other technology as a communication tool; ways to offer training on any new policies and
procedures for all staff/faculty; and methods for generating student awareness and involvement. A
clearly documented sustainability recommendation will ideally include methods for using various
metrics to gauge success of implementation and employee attitude change.
It is the group’s hope that the end result(s) of our work will result in a thriving green culture at the
college, one that will benefit the college, its students and employees, its surrounding communities, our
students and employees, and surrounding natural resources including wildlife, and to generate possible
new business relationships and the creation or connection to new curricula (e.g. the “green tech” course
offered by Technology in Fall 2013). It will also potentially lead to collaborations with other institutions
in the community, especially other large organizations including hospitals and post-secondary
institutions.