This weekend I finished one of my favorite annual writing projects: a comprehensive review of last year’s student and faculty activities and accomplishments in Roosevelt’s Sustainability Studies Program, published on the SUST Blog this morning.

2015 was a notable time of change, transition, and planning: we graduated 11 majors, moved to the College of Arts & Sciences from our longtime home in the College of Professional Studies, hired a new full-time faculty member, welcomed a part-time administrator, helped create the university’s first Strategic Sustainability Plan, held two student symposia and hosted other campus events, engaged in field trips and service learning in our classes, expanded our student internship resources, completed two rounds of departmental strategic planning, launched the Roosevelt Urban Sustainability Lab, and collaborated with the Department of Physical Resources on completing the research for RU’s first STARS assessment report.

I want to sincerely thank all my Roosevelt colleagues and students for all their hard work and enthusiasm on these projects and others. It was an eventful and rewarding year, and I’m hopeful that 2016 will be better yet!