Discovery & governance

Vision: Temple will develop solutions for a just and sustainable climate future through a commitment to academics, research, innovation, and sound governance.

Governance and workplace culture

Launch sustainability-focused learning and development offerings, grow the Green Revolving Fund and support the creation of a holistic framework to measure and improve the employee experience and drive engagement

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Impact and access

Produce environmental leadership and civic-engagement programs, coordinate and assess sustainability-themed student support programs such as Temple Thrift, graduation gown recycling and rental, and surplus bicycle sales, and measure the impact of strategic initiatives dedicated to the success of low-income and first-generation college students

Research

Promote thought leadership and knowledge creation that addresses the most complex and compelling global challenges, incentivize and amplify student scholarship, and develop programs and initiatives to grow the institution's community-engaged and interdisciplinary sustainability research agenda

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Teaching and learning

Deliver a future-oriented, cross-disciplinary curricula and degree programs with sustainability-focused learning outcomes, provide faculty resources for sustainability curricula development, including publication of teaching and learning materials in the institutional repository, TUScholarShare.

Office of Sustainability

Discovery & governance