Funding is available to send faculty and staff members to sustainability professional development conferences and workshops through the Sustainability Seed Fund and the Sustainability Faculty Learning Community.  To access this funding, please contact Lisa Mitten.

Each June, the Office of Campus Sustainability sends two faculty or staff members to University of Vermont’s week-long Campus Sustainability Leadership Training program.  If you are interested in attending this training program in a future year, contact Lisa Mitten.

2016 Participants
Ro Millham, Associate Professor, Secondary Education
Michael Boms, Co-Chair of the Environmental Task Force & Adjunct Faculty, Biology

2015 Participants
Will Hong, Assistant Professor, Digital Media and Journalism
Michael Sheridan, Assistant Professor, Business Management

One year after attending the week-long training, Will Hong and Michael Sheridan co-founded the Sustainability Faculty Learning Community and the Sustainability Faculty Fellows Program, along with Ro Millham and Lisa Mitten.  Michael Sheridan developed a MBA-level course called Strategic Corporate Sustainability in which his students developed and proposed the Green Revolving Fund.  President Christian and Cabinet approved the Green Revolving Fund proposal in the spring of 2016.  Michael Sheridan also developed a sustainability concentration for the Business Management major, which will begin in the fall of 2016.

2014 Participants
Lisa Mitten

Lisa Mitten leads the campus’ sustainability efforts as Campus Sustainability Coordinator of the Office of Campus Sustainability.