Category Archives: planning

Sustainability Resolution & Strategic Plan for 2024-29 Unanimously Endorsed by RU Senate

In celebration of Earth Week @RooseveltU, we are pleased to share some good news! At the last RU Senate meeting of the 2023-24 academic year on 19 April 2024, the Strategic Sustainability Plan for 2024-29 and accompanying Resolution were endorsed … Continue reading

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Please Attend the Campus Sustainability Planning Meeting @RU via Zoom on Wed 2/21

RU’s Environmental Sustainability Committee (ESC) will meet via Zoom on Wed 2/21/24 from 9-10am CST to review the strategic planning process to date and prioritize the summary initiatives recommended by the RU community in 2023. This open committee est. in … Continue reading

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Learn Job-Ready GIS Skills in SUST / SOC / SOCJ 370 Mapping for Sustainability (Spring 2024)

This coming spring 2024 semester, the new Department of Law, Sociology & Sustainability Department will offer its unique course Mapping for Sustainability at Roosevelt U’s Chicago Campus. This hands-on lab-based course will meet F2F in person in AUD 1015 on … Continue reading

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Strategic Sustainability Planning @RooseveltU: ESC Meets this Fri 3/17 @3pm on Zoom

The Environmental Sustainability Committee @RooseveltU will have its next strategic sustainability planning meeting of the 2022-23 academic year this Friday, 3/17, from 3pm to 4:30pm on Zoom (see login info below). If you have time, please take a look at … Continue reading

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Strategic Sustainability Planning @RooseveltU: ESC Meets Fri 3/17 @3pm on Zoom

The Environmental Sustainability Committee @RooseveltU will have its next strategic sustainability planning meeting of the 2022-23 academic year on Friday, 3/17, from 3pm to 4:30pm on Zoom (see login info below). The ESC is an open committee formed in 2010 … Continue reading

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Support the Illinois Agricultural and Natural Resources Legacy Act Today!

Please read this message from Cynthia Kanner, Executive Director of the Prairie State Conservation Coalition, about important legislation being debated tomorrow 3/8/23 in the IL General Assembly: Dear Prairie State Conservation Coalition Members and Friends: There is an exciting bill … Continue reading

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Doodle Poll for Next Environmental Sustainability Committee Meeting @RU

Dear RU community: students, alumni, faculty, staff, admin, trustees, and friends — The Environmental Sustainability Committee @RooseveltU will have its next meeting (on Zoom) of the 2022-23 academic year the week of March 13th, day/time TBA. If you are interested … Continue reading

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Progress Report on RU’s Fall 2022 Sustainability Planning: Linking Campus Sustainability to Human Rights & Social Justice

Three students from SUST 350 Service & Sustainability — Kiera Carpenter, Sophia Gallo, and Kayla Nelson — presented their Progress Report on our 2022 Sustainability Strategic Planning efforts this fall at the Joseph Loundy Human Rights Project Symposium & Luncheon … Continue reading

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Sustainability & Human Rights: Attend the Joseph Loundy 2022 Human Rights Symposium @RU this Wed 11/30

When we look to history, there is much to be learned about human rights. We may find that local and global movements were born from particular events — often traumatic, and with great political, health and environmental impacts. Can the … Continue reading

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Register Now for the Joseph Loundy 2022 Human Rights Symposium @RU: History, Health, & Sustainability (Wed 11/30)

When we look to history, there is much to be learned about human rights. We may find that local and global movements were born from particular events — often traumatic, and with great political, health and environmental impacts. Can the … Continue reading

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