LETTER from the PRESIDENT I am pleased to present Lehigh University’s Campus Sustainability Plan. This plan is the result of a campus-wide effort by students, faculty, and staff to address short- and long-term goals for Lehigh, building on the key themes of the University’s Strategic Plan. We seek to build upon our successes in integrating sustainability into our academic mission and operational processes. We have teaching, research and service work that contributes to a better understanding of and use of natural resources and a more sustainable operation on campus and beyond. Our residential, administrative, student-life and dining activities are all areas where we can enact the practices we discuss in our academic mission. Each of us is responsible for the success of these goals and for sustaining the momentum needed to achieve them. We must combine our individual and collective energy to coordinate efforts across campus for the benefit of Lehigh University and the community at large. This plan sets forth ambitious goals. But I am confident that, working together, Lehigh University will become a more sustainable campus. Alice P. Gast President
Sustainability at Lehigh University
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