Goal Three: Achieve financial, institutional, and environmental sustainability.Gustavus ACTS
It’s all about systems and structures that maximize the College’s long-term success and viability.
We’ve made great strides in strengthening our greatest resource: our people. The College has completed staff and faculty compensation analyses and developed programs for new employees and emerging leaders. We’ve increased employee engagement and satisfaction. We need to in order to recruit and retain employees of the highest caliber.
Gustavus has implemented a waste-stream process on the way to becoming a zero-waste institution and will partner with Minnesota-based Novel Energy Solutions to install a new solar array on campus that will increase by ten times the campus's current solar output. The President's Environmental Sustainability Council (PESC) is investigating other initiatives to encourage energy conservation habits by students and employees. There is impressive leadership among students around climate justice.