Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System
The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS®) is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to gauge relative progress toward sustainability. STARS was developed by AASHE with broad participation from the higher education community.
STARS is designed to:
· Provide a framework for understanding sustainability in all sectors of higher education.
· Enable meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions using a common set of measurements developed with broad participation from the campus sustainability community.
· Create incentives for continual improvement toward sustainability.
· Facilitate information sharing about higher education sustainability practices and performance.
· Build a stronger, more diverse campus sustainability community.
The STARS framework is intended to engage and recognize the full spectrum of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada – from community colleges to research universities, and from institutions just starting their sustainability programs to long-time campus sustainability leaders. STARS encompasses long-term sustainability goals for already high-achieving institutions as well as entry points of recognition for institutions that are taking first steps toward sustainability.
STARS 1.0 , which launched on January 19, 2010, after a three-year development process, is the first version of STARS in which participants can earn a rating.
http://stars.aashe.org/
The Ball State University STARS Report was filed on August 2, 2011, and received a Silver Rating. Click here to view the STARS Report.
In compliance with the filing of our STARS Report, we have placed supplemental PDF documents below: