Sustainability Development Goals
Summary paragraph about the overall effort.
Latest Progress
Latest Progress
- • Over 90% of TC3 students receive financial aid to support their education.
- • Tompkins Cortland Foundation awards approximately $500,000 annually in scholarships.
- • TC3 BIZ develops workforce programs to help students succeed.
Latest Progress
- • The Panther Pantry offers free food and kitchen supplies to members of our campus
community and beyond. - • TC3 Farm provides subsidized CSA for community members.
Academic Connections
- • Sustainable Farming and Food Systems
- • Human Services
How to Get Involved
- • Student jobs at the Panther Pantry and the college’s cafeteria and fireside café are available each semester.
Latest Progress
- • TC3 promotes health through various services like counseling, recovery and prevention programs, the Panther Pantry and stress reduction activities in the Best Life Lounge.
Academic Connections
- • Chemical Dependency Counseling
- • Human Services
- • Liberal Arts and Sciences: Social Science
- • Microcredentials
- • Nursing
- • Recreation: Exercise Science
- • Recreation: Leadership
Latest Progress
- • TC3 offers support programs like EOP.
- • The social justice model for academic adjustments enables students to access services based on their lived experience and not previous documentation.
- • Partnerships with County Career Centers fund degrees and training.
- • FAFSA support for those who need help with that form.
Academic Programs
- • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Social Justice courses
- • Early Childhood
Latest Progress
- • TC3 offers gender-inclusive housing and reproductive health services, including
emergency contraception. - • Annual events like International Women’s Day promote gender equality
Academic Connections
- • Gender and Sexuality studies
- • DEISJ courses
- • COIL/VINE courses
- • Study abroad
How to Get Involved
- • Gender and Sexuality Alliance
- • Violence Prevention Group
Latest Progress
- • Our wetland complex helps filter run-off from our main building, ensuring clean groundwater recharge, which is the main source of drinking water for the Village of Dryden.
- • Filtered water stations reduce plastic bottle use by over 58,000 plastic water bottles.
- • Our facilities department mows the grass further away from the creek protecting it from pollutants.
Academic Connections
- • Applied Science and Technology
- • Biology
- • Construction and Environmental Technology
- • Environmental Studies
How to Get Involved
- • Use water sustainably and responsibly.
- • Join a volunteer water monitoring effort like the Community Science Institute.
Latest Progress
- • Solar farm provides renewable energy for our campus.
- • Installation of many LEDs, replacing high-wattage lighting.
Academic Connections
- • Applied Science and Technology
- • Construction and Environmental Technology
- • Economics classes
- • Environmental Studies
How to Get Involved
- • Turn off lights when leaving your classroom.
- • Explore the possibility for converting your home to solar power, installing heat pumps, etc.
- • Take advantage of IRA incentives.
Latest Progress
- • TC3 offers 14 microcredential programs.
- • Accessibility services are provided along the social justice model of academic adjustments.
Academic Connections
- • Entrepreneurship
Latest Progress
- • TC3 participates in the PEAKS leadership program with other area community colleges.
- • The college offers career counseling and helps connect students to internships and local employers.
- • TC3 creates and maintains workforce development programs.
- • College print initiative helps to reduce paper waste.
Academic Connections
- • Applied Science and Technology
- • Construction and Environmental Technology
- • Entrepreneurship
- • Environmental Studies
How to Get Involved
- • National Society for Leadership and Success- student group
- • Non-Traditional Student organization
Latest Progress
- • Access & Equity Office ensures equal access to academic offerings.
- • The EOP program helps underserved populations.
- • The Panther Food Pantry provides food, clothing, and household items to members of the community.
- • The Childcare Center provides affordable daycare to members of our community.
Academic Connections
- • Business
- • Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Social Justice courses
- • Gender and Sexuality Studies
- • Environmental Studies
How to Get Involved
- • Non-Traditional Student organization
- • Gender and Sexuality Alliance
Latest Progress
- • TC3 offers sustainable academic programs.
Academic Connections
- • Applied Science and Technology
- • Constructions and Environmental Technology
- • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Social Justice courses
- • Entrepreneurship
- • Environmental Studies
- • Sustainable Farming and Food Systems
How to Get Involved
- • TC3 Votes
- • Student Government Association
Latest Progress
- • TC3 print initiatives help to reduce paper waste.
- • The TC3 farm, which offers the Sustainable Farming & Food Systems degree, engages in the donation of excess food as well as the use of composting bins.
- • The Panther Pantry and Community Closet.
Academic Connections
- • Anthropology courses
- • Environmental Studies
- • Economics courses
- • History courses
- • Sustainable Farming and Food systems
Latest Progress
- • TC3 promotes climate awareness and inclusive decision-making through Institutional
Learning Outcome #5. - • Environmental Club for TC3 students.
Academic Connections
- • Biology
- • Construction and Environmental Technology
- • Economics classes
- • Environmental Studies
Latest Progress
- • TC3 utilizes wetlands, a small pond, and streams on our campus for education.
- • Our campus wetlands are part of a mandated plan for mitigation of the environment, and have been a subject for the diversity of plants.
- • Our forested area around an important stream helps the ecosystem recover from the impacts of farming.
Academic Connections
- • Applied Science and Technology
- • Biology
- • Construction and Environmental Technology
- • Environmental Studies
Latest Progress
- • TC3 utilizes forests for class projects emphasizing sustainable forestry, natural history, carbon sequestration, etc.
- • Our TC3 Farm provides 5 acres of diverse farm which cultivates over 120 varieties of vegetables and provides food to TC3 faculty, staff, and students as well as the wider community through a concept called community-supported agriculture. Each participant buys a “share” of the crop that helps fund the overall cost of the farm.
- • Environmental Studies students routinely survey the biodiversity on campus.
- • TC3 participates in a monitoring efforts for the Spotted Lanternfly.
Academic Connections
- • Biology
- • Construction and Environmental Technology
- • Environmental Studies
- • Sustainable Farming and Food Systems
How to Get Involved
- • Participate in annual campus bioblitz.
- • Hike around campus or play a round of disc golf to appreciate our campus’ natural beauty.
- • Participate in campus tree plantings.
Latest Progress
- • Creation and Implementation of the 2022-2027 Strategic Equity, Diversity, Justice, and Inclusion (EDJI) plan.
- • Our Global Initiatives program helps to create strong citizens of the world through study abroad programs, J-1 visitor experiences, and other opportunities for those looking to study in the United States.
- • BIZ creates handbooks for employers about inclusive hiring practices, encourages the hiring of neurodiverse and other inclusive populations, and covers the cost of election workers at the Cortland satellite campus polling place.
- • The All In Democracy Voting Initiative helps our students exercise their right to vote.
Academic Connections
- • Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Social Justice classes
- • Economics classes
- • Environmental Studies
- • History classes
- • Political Science classes
- • Sociology classes
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