Sustainability Dashboard
The Office of Sustainability uses a transparent and collaborative process to assess and document university sustainability progress. This dashboard tracks progress using metrics included in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) assessment.
The dashboard is organized around the four main categories of the STARS framework: academics, engagement, operations, and planning and administration. You can click the categories below to explore data on a wide range of campus sustainability efforts.
Dashboard Categories
Academics
Which courses at UW–Madison explore the concept of sustainability? Which UW–Madison researchers contribute to the study of sustainability?
Engagement
How do our Office of Sustainability Green Certification teams help laboratories, offices, and event planners work toward sustainability?
Operations
Which types of energy do we use to run campus? How do people get around campus? How much waste on campus is diverted from landfills? How much water does campus use?
Planning and Administration
How does UW–Madison advance diversity among students, faculty, and staff? How many students graduate without debt and how much financial need is met?
Certifications and Awards
STARS Results Dashboard
Below is UW–Madison’s STARS Performance Dashboard, which details sustainability performance scores across the three most recent UW–Madison STARS Reports, with Scoring Trends and Big 10 Peer Ranking comparisons.
FAQs
To learn how to use the dashboards, click here. This contains instructions for navigating, filtering, and downloading the data, along with other useful tips.
Staff from the Office of Sustainability compiled university-wide data to support STARS reporting. This dashboard offers students, staff, faculty, and other stakeholders the opportunity to better understand the sustainability impact of UW–Madison through the lens of this university-wide data.
Information will be updated as new data is available. You can find the frequency of updates and the date of last update in each individual section of the dashboard.
All data is available for download for individual analysis. See the video above for details on how to interact with and download the data. Please direct any questions on the data to Kyle Schmitz (kyle.schmitz@wisc.edu).
Please reach out to Kyle Schmitz (kyle.schmitz@wisc.edu) with any suggestions for the dashboard.
Please reach out to Kyle Schmitz (kyle.schmitz@wisc.edu) with any questions about the data or dashboard elements.
Send your idea to the Office of Sustainability through the Collaborate With Us form.
As defined in the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System guidance, a weighted campus user “is a measurement of an institution’s population that is adjusted to accommodate how intensively certain community members use the campus.” The weighted campus user is calculated as:
Weighted campus users = (A + B + C) + 0.75 [ (D – A) + (E – B) – F ]
A = Number of students resident on-siteB = Number of employees resident on-siteC = Number of other individuals resident on-siteD = Total full-time equivalent student enrollmentE = Full-time equivalent of employeesF = Full-time equivalent of students enrolled exclusively in distance education
Unless otherwise noted, the data in this dashboard represents the functions of the main campus, including the adjacent Lake Shore Nature Preserve and UW–Madison Arboretum.