American Indian Hall 159
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Attendees: 

Attendees: Calvin Servheen, Kara Landolfi, Lucas Oelkers, EJ Hook, Ryan Knutson, Terry Leist, Duke Elliot (sitting in for Megan Sterl), Paul Edlund, Rose Vejvoda, Nicholas Fitzmaurice, Kristin Blackler, Paige Tolleson, Brett Gunnink, Lee Spangler, Jennifer Thomson

  1. Welcome and announcements
  2. Approval of minutes
    1. Motion made, all in favor to approve October meeting minutes.
  3. Discussion
    1. Proposed Sub-Committees for Scope 1, 2 and 3. 
      • The Campus Energy Sub-Committee will continue to develop a campus energy plan to meet our campus goal of carbon neutrality in Scopes 1 and 2 by 2040
    2. MSU definition of Sustainability 
        • Proposed definition: “Sustainability at MSU is the process by which the campus community conserves and cares for the rich natural resources of the state and cultivates the economic and social welfare to meet the needs of Montana’s urban, rural, and tribal communities by living out the Land Grant mission through education, research, and service to the people of Montana.”
        • Proposed sustainability in the curriculum definition, “Sustainability in the MSU Curriculum are classes that teach students to live out the Land Grant mission by using education, research, and service to meet the needs of campus and Montana’s urban, rural, and tribal communities by conserving and caring for the rich natural resources of the state and cultivating economic and social welfare.”
      • Will circulate these two definitions for committee. We would like to have CSAC approve a definition for sustainability at MSU and a second definition for sustainability in the curriculum.
      • This will help identify what courses/programs are following sustainability. This will help track the programs that are following a sustainability curriculum to help with data.
        • Initial thoughts of MSU specific definition from CSAC:
          • MSU get resources from out of state. These definitions maybe show we don’t care about out of state constituents
          • Don’t know how these definitions meet land grant mission. Land grant mission is to benefit blue collar, agriculture, and working class.
          • College of ag views the land grant mission of educating and supporting students of Montana
          • Definition needs to be broad enough so that it isn’t exclusionary and captures the full scope of what we are doing. Can we condense it and refer to documents that further detail what we mean. Rely on foundation built with strategic plan.
          • Goal was to make the definition unique to MSU, strategic plan priorities change.
          • Must understand the breadth of land grant mission, we impact every person’s life in Montana by research and extension.
          • Land grant university: mission to teach, provide service, research, help community around sustainability.
          • Definitions are in a working document in Microsoft teams, CSAC will vote on final definitions in December meeting.

Other business

  • Identify a list of things that are not in stars that are still important to achieving sustainability goals i.e. extension.

Public comment

  • None

Meeting Adjourned 2:55 PM