Administration

As stated in the Environmental Stewardship Action Plan, JMU will:

Engage stakeholder input at all levels via the standing ISNW service committees

Consider university policies to institutionalize environmental best practices

Assess and disseminate progress

• Track building water and electricity consumption and disseminate online (monthly for all buildings and in real time where available)
• Produce a JMU greenhouse gas emissions inventory (biennially)
• Develop environmental stewardship indicators and gauge environmental progress relative to peer institutions (annually)

Seek sponsored programs and private funds to support environmental stewardship activities

• Employ grant writing assistance to increase the quantity of external funding applications

Examples of our progress:

• JMU was named in Princeton Review’s Guide to 322 Green Colleges: 2012 Edition. The Academic Affairs Division adopted two environmental stewardship goals, one focused on instruction and one on behavior. JMU successfully expanded its recycling program to collect #1-#7 plastics, and nearly all on-campus food packaging was replaced with compostable packaging.