Blog U.: Rating and ranking, measurement and management, and maybe a little doing in your spare time - Getting to Green - Inside Higher Ed

Blog U.: Rating and ranking, measurement and management, and maybe a little doing in your spare time - Getting to Green - Inside Higher Ed

Rating and ranking, measurement and management, and maybe a little doing in your spare time

By G. Rendell July 20, 2010 7:36 pm

As David Moltz reported in these pages Tuesday, a number of campus sustainability officers have issued an open letter describing the characteristics they'd like to see in higher education sustainability surveys, rankings, and evaluations. The letter was sent to The Princeton Review, the US Green Building Council, the Sustainable Endowments Institute, Sierra Magazine, the National Wildlife Federation, Peterson's Guide to Four Year Colleges, and Greenopia. It calls for

• transparency of calculations,