Accomplishments

Campus Life and Student Success

Global Leadership Program - This program is specifically designed to align to the three values.
Foundations of Excellence Fraternity and Sorority Accreditation - This process for social fraternities and sororities features a variety of requirements for continued recognition on campus. It was revamped to feature each of the three main values.
F.O.C.U.S. - Our orientation program for new students has been redesigned to include a highlighted day for each value.
Event Registration - Every time a student organization registers an event with our office they have to share which of Stetson University's three values are incorporated into the event.

Green Accomplishments

The Lynn Business Center is the first LEED Certified building in Florida. This is an excellent example of adaptive reuse. The building was built to house a Savings and Loan. By adapting the building to another use, millions of tons of solid waste were kept out of landfills. The Rinker Environmental Learning Center, McMahan Music Hall and the Hand Art Center all earned LEED Certification, with the Rinker Environmental Learning Center earning LEED Gold Status.
Volusia Sandhill Teaching Landscape with grants from Urban Foresters and Volusia County.
The university has adopted a native tree and plant policy. In excess of 900 native trees and 7,000 native shrubs have been planted on campus since May of 2010.
Tree Campus USA by Arbor Day Foundation including Campus Tree Care Plan and a Tree Advisory Committee.
Shift to organic best practices with integrated pest management
Reduced energy usage by 1.8 million kWh of electricity and natural gas consumption 21 percent annually. This has resulted in a 29 percent reduction in carbon emissions when the results of the Carbon Audit in 2007 are compared to the audit conducted by the students in 2011. The audit was completed by the students using the Clean Air Cool Planet Carbon Calculator. Our goal is to reduce carbon emissions by 40 percent when compared to 2007 by 2020 even with the addition of the Athletic Training Center and the Welcome/Admission Center.
Outstanding recycling program Earned number 1 position in the paper category and number 3 over all in the 2011 Recycle Mania Competition amongst 600 colleges and universities.
Completed the STARS Audit in 2012 achieving a Bronze Rating. STARS is the Sustainability Tracking and Reporting System used by many colleges and universities to track progress in the journey to be a sustainable campus.
Signatory of Talloires Declaration, and American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment (member in good standing).
Host of 2012 Volusia County Green Symposium
Installed water efficient irrigation with 99.7 percent of campus being irrigated with reclaimed water. The use of reclaimed water reduces the volume of treated water being introduced into the St Johns River and assist in replenishing the aquifer.
Since 2000, Stetson students have planted at least 30,000 trees in Guatemala by hand with AIR
Hatter Harvest Organic Garden. Student-run experimental garden with educational outreach and monthly farmers' markets promoting organic farming and local produce
Native Plant Screen house and Plant Propagation Site, for ongoing faculty and student research
Gillespie Museum is the University's earth science museum. Its collection of 15,000 mineral, rock, and fossil specimens--one of the oldest and largest in the southeast U.S--has developed in its fifty years into a center for environmental education, including geology exhibits and displays on native Florida ecosystems and native plant landscapes, minerals and mining, and fluorescent rocks. 9000 annual visitors to K-12 education programs, Science Saturdays, and other special events, including Stetson's annual Earth Day celebration.
Gillespie Museum Native Florida Plant Landscape. In its fifteenth year, an experiment in a native landscape without irrigation or chemicals; site of educational programming and undergraduate research.
Increased usage of LED lighting both in the buildings and in parking lots
Continue to work with our resident students to reduce electric consumption when res halls are closed for break. The consumption is down as the students, unplug, turn it off or turn it down.
Solar Thermal Technology was installed on the roof of the Rinker Field House to heat the swimming pool at the Hollis Center. With the solar panels we are able to provide comfortable water temperatures without using any electricity
Electric Charging Stations for use by electric cars and electric hybrid cars have been installed at two locations on campus, the Rinker Environmental Learning Center and Griffith Hall.
Purchased all electric automobile for Public Safety
Primary Use lawn mowers are powered with Compressed Natural Gas. Natural gas produces less CO2 than gasoline.
Increased number of bike racks by 40 percent when compared to 2010.
Installed solar thermal technology on the roof of Smith Hall to reduce consumption of natural gas used to heat domestic hot water.
Low Flow plumbing fixtures have been installed at Carson, Hollis and Conrad Residence Halls. During the summer of 2013 23 bathrooms in Emily Hall will have water efficient plumbing fixtures. The balance of the bathrooms in Emily Hall will have water efficient plumbing fixtures when the renovations are complete in 2015.
Converted the air conditioning system at the University Village Apartments from individual units for each apartment to the central cooling plant which will be more efficient and reduce consumption of electricity
Metal roofs have been installed on the Athletic Training Center, Allen Hall and the Allen Residence. Metal roofs have a useful life of approximately twice that of asphalt single roofs. When a metal roof has to be replaced the metal can be recycled. When an asphalt single roofs are replaced the material are put in to landfills. Asphalt single roofs are a petroleum based product hence we reduce our reliance on fossil fuels and reduce waste with a very long half-life from going into landfills.
As we replace floors or building new building we are using flooring products manufactured by firms committed to reducing CO2 emissions in their manufacturing process. Our standard for hard flooring is now either porcelain or ceramic which require no floor finishes, less water in cleaning operations and less electricity and emissions for maintenance. We have also been restoring the wood flooring in the older building on campus instead of covering them with either carpet or hard flooring.