Stanford has earned a 2012 Gold rating from the Association of Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) for its overall sustainability performance, according to FAHMIDA AHMED, director of the Office of Sustainability.
According to Ahmed, Stanford is one of only 32 institutions out of AASHE’s 1,000 members to earn the Gold rating.
AASHE sponsors the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS), which is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure sustainability performance. STARS was developed with the cooperation of the higher education community. It includes such broad categories as education and research; operations; planning, administration and engagement; and innovation.
View Stanford’s AASHE report card at this website.
Fahmida Ahmed
In addition, Ahmed, who joined Stanford in 2008, was recently awarded a Private College/University Sustainability Champion Award at the 2012 California Higher Education Sustainability Conference. The award recognizes “an individual who has been a role model to their peers around the state; has promoted sustainability throughout their campus; achieved results; and who truly embodies the term ‘leader.’”
Ahmed leads the Office of Sustainability and the campus program Sustainable Stanford. She co-chairs the Sustainability Working Group, connects the Sustainability Working Teams, coordinates implementation of sustainability projects, supports Stanford’s long-term resource infrastructure planning and manages the office’s communications and evaluation programs.
Some of those sustainability efforts were recently highlighted in an article in The Guardian.
