1. METRICS FOR "NEXT GENERATION"
OFFICE OF SUSTAINABILITY
ISCN - Pre-Conference Workshop
MIT Stata Center – June 2014
jccarteron@kedgebs.com

2. WHAT DO WE
MEASURE IN
HIGHER EDUCATION
INSTITUTIONS?

3. THE SCOPE OF HEI RESPONSIBILITY
Sources
:
KEDGE
Business
School
–
revisited
in
2014
Prac=cal
guide
to
the
UN
Global
Compact
for
HEI
-­‐
RIO
2012
Greening
universi=es
toolkit
UNEP
2013
AS ORGANISATION
AS INSTITUTION OF EDUCATION AND RESEARCH
• Long-term vision of
graduates and partners
• Participation of graduates in
the economic and ethical
development of society and
of companies
ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICSOCIAL
• Personal well-being
• Personal development
• Health & safety
• Human rights
• Social & cultural diversity
• Employability…
• Waste and pollution
• Natural resource
• Climate change
• Biodiversity…
• Financial transparency
• Short & long-term financial
sustainability
• Value creation
• Community development
• Anti-corruption
• Organizational governance...
• Inclusion of environmental
sustainability issues in
managerial decisions made
by graduates and partners
• Socially responsible issues
in the behavior and in
managerial decisions made
by graduates
• Personal and professional
well-being of graduates
• Contribution to the implementation of SD in the academic sector

4. LEVERS OF ACTION
IN THE ORGANISATION
• Transportation policy,
• Energy policy (sobriety,
efficiency and renewable
energy)
• Building solutions,
• Management of GHG
emissions, waste…
• Biodiversity plans…
• International strategy,
• Community involvement and
development
• Investment and
remuneration policy,
• Quality and efficiency
management
• Risk management…
• Fair operating practices
• Sustainable purchasing and
user behaviors
• Exemplary behavior,
• Lobbying in the sector
• Sharing with peers
• Stakeholders engagement
• Sustainable performance
indicators…
• Working and learning
conditions,
• diversity policy, equal
opportunities plans
• Access to knowledge,
• Intellectual development,
• Social dialogue…
ENVIRONMENTAL
IN PROGRAMS AND RESEARCH
• Pedagogical approach,
• Curriculum content,
• Learning by doing,
• Mandatory courses
• Holistic approach, system
thinking
• Evolving information sources
• Research themes,
• Transversal research…
ECONOMICSOCIAL

5. METRICS : FROM SPECIFIC ITEMS TO A WHOLE APPROACH
Teaching &
Training
Social Policy &
local Community
Involvment
Green Campus
Management
Strategy
& Governance
Research
Stars,
Life,
Green
plan,
CRU,
USAT,
AUA,
AISHE,
SAQ…
Beyond
Grey
Pinstripe
College
of
sustainability
report
card…
Green
metrics,
Iso
14001,
Greenopia…

6. METRICS ON MEANS USED OR ON IMPACTS GENERATED ?
Impacts
Means
Impacts
Means
Can
universiIes
be
sure
that
they
are
producing
sustainability
literate
graduates?

7.
Assessing
the
rudimentary
knowledge
of
sustainable
development
Can
a
knowledge
based
model
help
create
a
next
genera=on
framework
?

8. www.sustainabilitytest.org
GENERALPRINCIPLES ! Minimum level knowledge assessment on sustainable
development,
! Free online test,
! 50 MCQ (Multi Choice Questioner)
! For any kind of level tertiary diploma all over the world, the
V1 will be customized in 25 countries (7 languages)

9. AUSTRALIA
ARGENTINA
BRAZIL
CANADA
COSTA
RICA
COLOMBIA
CHINA
DOMINICAN
REP.
EGYPT
FINLAND
FRANCE
HONG
KONG
NEW
ZEALAND
PERU*
ITALY
INDIA
IRELAND
*
JAPAN
QUEBEC
SENEGAL*
SPAIN
SOUTH
AFRICA*
SWITZERLAND
*
UK
US…
OUR
SHORT
TERM
GOAL
100
000
Students
for
Nagoya
!
RNEC
RNF
*
REGIONAL/
NATIONAL
EXPERT
COMMITEES
UNDESA
SENIOR
ADVISORY
BOARD

10. www.sustainabilitytest.org
ONETOOL,MANYUSES
! To have the first worldwide picture of knowledge on sustainable
development of university graduates
! Allowing HEIs to use it :
! as a map of the sustainability literacy of their incoming
student body
! as an educational tool to raise awareness of students
! as a minimum score for graduation (examination conditions)
! as a tool to assess their curriculum (comparison beginning/end of
the curriculum)
! as a means to raise the awareness of staff/faculty members

11. www.sustainabilitytest.org
mapoftheSDliteracy

12. www.sustainabilitytest.org
• Could be used for corporations (staff) & recruitment
agencies, and serve to evaluate public policy…
• Collect data, produce international surveys
• Work with accreditation, quality and ranking providers to
embed sustainability !
• Move towards new assessment tools (in order to for
example assess skills and behavior, mastery solutions,
examine specific sectors…)
THEFUTURE

13. THANK YOU
You can join now the metric breaking session:
“from incremental change to paradigm shift”
(Room 32-R&D Commons)
Co-create the metrics for "next generation"
office of sustainability and draft the roadmap at :
• a sector level
• a university level
• a Dept. level