Student Alliance
Faculty Alliance
Operations Alliance

top
Student Sustainability Alliance
About
The Student Sustainability Alliance hopes to unify the student body as a whole in an effort to create a more sustainable community. It provides a forum for communication from the students to the staff. Members of the SSA are in direct contact with the operational departments and therefore can communicate effectively on what the students want to see regarding sustainability on campus.
The Student Sustainability Alliance will be a closed committee of 12 students and will be overseen by the SGA Environmental and Sustainability Coordinator. Applications for the SSA will be released early in the fall semester. Join the SSA mailing list to be notified of when the applications are released.

Purpose
The purpose of the SSA is to:
1. Educate the student body on sustainability including environmental protection, economic development, and social justice.
2. Communicate with the operational departments and faculty on campus about student's needs.
3. Participate in and develop sustainability projects on campus
The SSA also provides a way for students to obtain information regarding sustainability on campus and around the Central Florida area. Weekly emails are sent out that describe local sustainability related events. In addition, the SSA develops and participates in sustainability projects like the community vegetable and herb garden.

Mailing List
Please email sustainableucf@mail.ucf.edu or fill out the form under "contact us" if you would like to receive updates about the Student Sustainability Alliance.

Projects
Community Vegetable and Herb Garden:
This project will be started up again in the fall. Join the mailing list if you would like updates for the community garden.

Adopt-A-Pond:
The Adopt-A-Pond program allows student groups to get involved by committing their time to maintaining one of the retention ponds on campus. After two months of commitment, a sign will be placed by the pond to highlight the organization’s work. If you or your organization is interested in adopting a pond, please email us at sustainableucf@mail.ucf.edu or call at (407) 823-3583.

Adopt-A-Road:
The Adopt-A-Road program allows student groups to get involved by committing their time to maintaining a portion of one of the roads on campus. After two months of commitment, a sign will be placed by the road to highlight the organization’s work. If you or your organization is interested in adopting a pond, please email us at sustainableucf@mail.ucf.edu or call at (407) 823-3583

Adopt-A-Game:
The Adopt-A-Game program allows student groups to get involved by committing their time to maintaining a portion of the UCF campus during scheduled games. If you or your organization is interested in adopting a game, please email us at sustainableucf@mail.ucf.edu or call at (407) 823-3583.

top
Faculty Sustainability Alliance

About
The Faculty Sustainability Alliance provides a forum for communication about sustainability between the faculty and the operational departments.

Purpose
The FSA focuses on:
1. Promoting UCF’s mission to offer high-quality undergraduate and graduate education, student development, and continuing education; to conduct research and creative activities; and to provide services that enhance the intellectual, cultural, environmental, and economic development of the metropolitan region, address national and international issues in key areas, establish UCF as a major presence, and contribute to the global community.
2. Promoting science based recommendations on land use and environmental stewardship.
3. Promoting interconnectivity of managed land.
4. Utilizing campus resources for research and education.
5. Communicating urban-ecology research potential and showing the system as an outdoor laboratory asset for the faculty to use for students to gain knowledge about the system.
The faculty has also implemented sustainability into classroom curriculum via the General Education Program (GEP) unifying theme: “Global Climate Change”

Links
General Education Program
Faculty Profiles

top
Operations Sustainability Alliance

About
The Operational Sustainability Alliance is a collaboration of all the departments that implement sustainable practices on campus. Please read our Sustainability Plan: Operations Sustainability Plan.

Departments
These six core departments initiate sustainable projects per their operational scope:
• Environmental Health and Safety
• Environmental Initiative
• Facilities Planning
• Landscape and Natural Resources
• Physical Plant
• Sustainability and Energy Management

Liaisons
We have three Sustainability Liaison's that work on incorporating sustainable programing into the campus environment:
• Alaina Bernard, Campus Sustainability Liaison
• Renea Carver, Operations Sustainability Liaison
• Michelle Murphy, Public Information Liaison

Goals and Tasks
The Operations Sustainability Alliance is a comprehensive university resource for departments and organizations having an interest in sustainability. For the purpose of this Alliance, the following United Nations 1987 definition of sustainability will be used: “Meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”