[Newleaf] MSSCOR: Last Chance for Student Abstracts!

[jkr10 at hampshire.edu]

Hello!

For anyone interested in the MA Students Working With Sustainability  
Coordinators (MSSCOR) Convocation which is happening at Hampshire  
College on April 9th, you need to submit a < 1 page page abstract to  
rick.reibstein at state.ma.us by March 1st - which is this Friday!  If  
you are working on any cool project related to sustainability that  
you'd like to present at a state-wide event, you should definitely  
write up an abstract!  You don't actually need to be working with a  
sustainability coordinator, but you do need to have your abstract  
reviewed by a faculty/staff member.

-Josh

Full information below:

"MSSCOR was founded to increase information sharing among university  
and college sustainability coordinators.  Because so many  
sustainability coordinators work with students, MSSCOR organized a  
Spring Convocation in April, 2012, dedicated to the topic of the  
student contribution.  The event was so successful Hampshire is  
hosting the Second Spring Convocation, to be held April 9.  We invite  
Sustainability Coordinators to encourage the students with whom they  
work to share information about the work they have done.  The morning  
will consist of presentations from students that have been selected by  
interested Massachusetts University or College Presidents, invited to  
participate in the selection by Jonathan Lash, the president of  
Hampshire College and former President of the World Resources  
Institute, and Second Nature, the organization that originated the  
Presidents of the American College and University Presidents' Climate  
Commitment.  Participating presidents will choose from abstracts  
submitted jointly by students and sustainability coordinators,  
selecting the ones that they think merit the most attention at this  
time.  Sustainability Coordinators are encouraged to work with  
students to prepare these presentations.  The deadline for submissions  
is March 1, 2013.  To see what the First Spring Convocation produced,  
please visit the MSSCOR webpage hosted by Second Nature at  
http://www.campusgreenbuilder.org/MSSCOR.
Here are the submission requirements:
Abstracts should be no more than a page
Abstracts may describe a project in any state of implementation,  
including planning, or may discuss an aspect of sustainability  
implementation that is important to the success of school  
sustainability.
Papers may be co-authored by faculty or staff, but must presented by students.
The submission should include a statement that the paper has been  
reviewed and approved by staff or faculty, with a description of their  
role concerning sustainability at the campus and/or the subject of the  
paper.

Submit by email by March 1 to: rick.reibstein at state.ma.us, or by  
regular mail to Rick Reibstein, Office of Technical Assistance, 9th  
Floor, 100 Cambridge Street, Boston, MA 02114.   There will also be  
opportunities for sharing information from papers not selected for  
presentation, and Second Nature will provide web-posting of abstracts  
and resulting papers."