{"id":7690,"date":"2018-09-13T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/09\/13\/sierra-club-cool-schools\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:15:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:15:44","slug":"sierra-club-cool-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/sierra-club-cool-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Club recognizes Furman for sustainability in &#8220;Cool Schools&#8221; ranking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University has been recognized in the Sierra Club\u2019s 2018 \u201cCool Schools\u201d rankings. Moving up 34 points from last year\u2019s 79<sup>th<\/sup> position, Furman achieved a ranking of 45 this year among the more than 250 colleges that participated in the Cool Schools survey.<\/p>\n<p>The Sierra Club based its rankings on institutions\u2019 existing Sustainability Tracking, Assessment &amp; Rating System\u2122 (STARS) scores, a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. The STARS program is an initiative of the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).<\/p>\n<p>To arrive at the Cool Schools ratings, the Sierra Club processed STARS scores with a custom-built formula based on Sierra Club priorities, with a supplemental question about fossil fuel investments.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes on the heels of Furman being <a href=\"https:\/\/news.furman.edu\/2018\/08\/23\/sustainable-campus-index\/\">named among the top 10 overall performers in AASHE\u2019s 2018 Sustainable Campus Index<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Said Furman Associate Director of Sustainability Assessment Laura Bain, \u201cWe are honored to be included among a group of universities committed to environmental stewardship. Furman has a longstanding commitment to sustainability, and I look forward to working with our dedicated faculty, staff and students to continue addressing the challenges ahead.<\/p>\n<p>To view the complete rankings, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1IO_2xvJBQuoCh2zM6hC7K6Ys5hTYUlnbP8qY08Fwwm8\/edit#gid=1675988934\">Cool Schools spreadsheet<\/a>. More about the Sierra Club\u2019s methodology may be found <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/1f2Kz4KlHmGHJeRoZeCRfaniE3SDiFcjCCPCmlQMs9dw\/edit\">here<\/a>. Or contact Laura Bain at Furman\u2019s David E. Shi Center for Sustainability at 864-294-3656 and <a href=\"mailto:laura.bain@furman.edu\">laura.bain@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University has been recognized in the Sierra Club\u2019s 2018 \u201cCool Schools\u201d rankings. Moving up 34 points from last year\u2019s 79th position, Furman achieved a ranking of 45 this year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-centers-and-institutes","category-shi-institute-for-sustainable-communities","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}