Columbia's most comprehensive sustainability inventory, a six-month effort involving all five campuses, has merited a gold rating from STARS, a well-known and respected Sustainability Tracking, Assessment and Rating System specifically for institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada.
Of the 236 colleges and universities that have earned a STARS rating, only 43 - or 18.2 percent - have achieved gold. Columbia submitted its 376-page report last November and received the gold rating in December.
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