This committee includes UMass Amherst sustainability experts and representatives of the major sustainability constituencies from across campus.
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The role of CSAC is to:
1. Facilitate integration of sustainability initiatives across the campus
2. Recommend sustainability priorities to the Chancellor and Chancellor's Leadership Council (CLC)
3. Serve as an intermediary for student initiatives to the administration
CSAC meets monthly throughout the calendar year with one to two breaks in the schedule during summer and winter break.
Current membership includes 22 representatives from:
CHAIR:
Steve Goodwin, Deputy Chancellor
SUSTAINABILITY STAFF:
Ezra Small, Campus Sustainability Manager, Physical Plant
Laurie Simmons, Residential Life Sustainability Coordinator, Residential Life (Also Graduate Student Senate Rep)
Kathy Wicks, Auxiliary Services Sustainability Director, Auxiliary Services
ADMINISTRATIVE:
Raymond Jackson, Director, Physical Plant
Ludmilla Pavlova, Senior Campus Planner, Campus Planning
Ted Mendoza, Project Manager, Design & Construction Management
Jeff Hescock, Director, Environmental Health & Safety
Jack Brown, Assistant Budget Director, Budget Office
Dawn Bond, Director, Residential Life Operations
Ken Toong, Executive Director, Auxiliary Services
Tricia MacKenzie, Executive Director of Marketing Strategy, University Relations
Marco Monoc, Executive Director, Foundations Relations
Betsy Cracco, Executive Director, Well Being, Access & Prevention, Student Affairs & Campus Life:
ACADEMIC:
Sanjay Raman, Dean, College of Engineering (Rotating Dean)
Craig Nicolson, Professor, Environmental Conservation (College of Natural Sciences Rep)
Elisabeth Infield, Professor, Landscape Architecture & Regional Planning (College of Social and Behavioral Sciences Rep)
Ray Kinoshita Mann, Professor, Architecture (College of Humanities & Fine Arts Rep)
Curt Griffin, Professor & Director, Environmental Conservation (School of Earth and Sustainability Rep)
Robert Deconto, Professor, Geosciences, (School of Earth and Sustainability Rep)
Melanie Radik, Science & Engineering Librarian, UMass Libraries
Jack Minella, Student Government Association
For questions regarding CSAC please contact campus sustainability manager, Ezra Small by emailing esmall@umass.edu or calling 413-545-0799.
Reports and Presentations:
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Sustainability Integration Project (SIP) -
1. SIP Executive Summary Document prepared for Chancellor prior to October 23 meeting, October 20, 2017
2. SIP Task Force Presentation for Chancellor on Proposed CSAC Priorities, October 23, 2017
3. SIP Task Force Presentation to Extended Chancellor's Leadership Council (CLC), December 14, 2017.
4. Chancellor's Office Announcement to Campus Community on Carbon Mitigation and Campus Resiliency Task Forces, November 2, 2018