Dawson College is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Adam to the new special project position of Coordinator \u2013 Sustainability Office. The position reports directly to the Director General.<\/p>\n
The creation of the special project reaffirms the College\u2019s commitment to advancing the theories and practices of sustainability by establishing an office to strategically address Goal #7 of Dawson\u2019s Strategic Plan \u201cto be a leading Canadian post-secondary institution in promoting and practising sustainability in all its endeavours\u201d in the context of the Value expressed as sustainable well-being for all by cultivating \u201ca healthy and inclusive learning and working environment in which all members of our community feel respected, valued and supported in the pursuit of their personal and professional goals.\u201d<\/p>\n
The hiring committee unanimously recommended Chris Adam for the position in recognition of his expertise and experience in the field, and a proven track record at Dawson. Chris has been a passionate and dynamic educator in the pursuit of the goals and values stated in the Strategic Plan over a 35-year career, 25 years of which have been at Dawson as a faculty member in Community Recreation and Leadership Training. In 2006, he spearheaded the drive to establish Action Conservation, Dawson\u2019s first stab at a sustainability program.<\/p>\n
Two years later, the initiative was transformed into Sustainable Dawson, with a firm commitment, clear objectives and benchmarks to measure how the College could meet the challenges of moving to a green campus and enriching students\u2019 learning experience through pedagogical engagement. Today, largely as a result of his efforts, Dawson has declared itself carbon neutral, and hundreds of students benefit every year from Dawson\u2019s goals and values with respect to the environment, sustainability and responsible citizenry through projects like rooftop honeybees, biodiversity zones, composting, equipment design or sustainable procurement.<\/p>\n
The next step for Dawson and a major share of Chris\u2019s mandate as Coordinator of the Sustainability Office is the development and implementation of Living Campus to further incorporate sustainability across the curriculum, throughout the student experience and within the college community, to use the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System (STARS) developed by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AAHSE) to benchmark performance, to reduce waste and energy consumption, to be carbon neutral in operations, and to\u00a0adopt a system and foster practices in the day-to-day business of the College, such as purchasing and awarding major contracts that are environmentally friendly.<\/p>\n
As well being an educator, Chris is a social entrepreneur. He has been recognized nationally and internationally for designing and implementing environmental and sustainability-related programs.\u00a0 He teaches environmental leadership and is the executive director of the Earthvalues Institute, a non-profit charity specializing in using a\u00a0Nature as Mentor<\/em>\u00a0theme in teaching. Chris not only evaluates success of projects through traditional outcomes, but also whether the cohesion of a working group of educators and students is maintained, or even increased, by the process set in place.<\/p>\n Chris holds a Masters of Education in College Teaching from the Universit\u00e9 de Sherbrooke.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dawson College is pleased to announce the appointment of Chris Adam to the new special project position of Coordinator \u2013 Sustainability Office. The position reports directly to the Director General. The creation of the special project reaffirms the College\u2019s commitment to advancing the theories and practices of sustainability by establishing an office to strategically address…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":207,"featured_media":1346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[190],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/207"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}