This month, the Land and Water team had their monthly meeting on Friday, April 4, at 9:00 am on a Teams video call. Linked below is the meeting agenda with the meeting notes from what the team discussed. Additionally, a recording of the meeting is linked in the agenda. 

Attached is the 2025 Progress Report for the 2014 Campus Bike Plan. 

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign’s Rainwater Management Program showcases a future vision for the campus that emphasizes the importance of rainwater retention and replenishment. The goal is to transition from the traditional viewpoint of stormwater runoff as a maintenance issue to one that envisions rainwater as an asset to preserve, harness and celebrate. Learn more about the program’s release in a virtual forum on from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 2. Preregistration is required to attend the webinar. The RMP was funded by the Student Sustainability Committee.

Learn About the Campus' New Rainwater Management Program

April 2, 3–4 pm

Betsy Richardson • Facilities & Services

Agenda

• Michael's updates
  • Expand/Collapse buttons added to Project Updates listings. See examples:
    • All Project Updates
    • Project Updates search results
    • Project Updates for collection: Monarch Butterfly projects
    • Projects Updates for Sustainability iCAP Portal
    • Projects Updates for key objective: 2.1 Energy Planning Document
    • Projects Updates for theme: Education
    • Projects Updates for place: Campus Instructional Facility
  • Investigating an issue with some information connected to Projects (locations, funding info) and Metrics (targets, tracking) losing their connections to those projects.
    • Information still in database, so I can restore connections, but it's been taking some careful and tedious effort to track this down and restore the connections.
    • I've been practicing on a test site to make sure I get it right. Will fix connections on live site soon.
    • Does not appear widespread, though unclear what the pattern is at this time
• [DEFER TO NEXT TIME] Google Analytics numbers drop
  • Steeper than others have experienced
  • Probably some combination of less traffic and old analytics possibly not excluding bots/crawlers as effectively
• [DEFER TO NEXT TIME] Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics (see notes from Sarthak & Michael's discussion)

Discussion

• [DEFER TO NEXT TIME] Google Analytics numbers drop
• [DEFER TO NEXT TIME] Discussion of how to handle projects with large numbers of metrics

TODOs

• Investigate how to hide Project Status from certain projects which aren't actually projects - they're meant to act as parents for other projects
  • e.g. add a "Header" Project Status which hides the status
  • Remove Project Status from hierarchical listing on theme pages and full project hierarchy listing
• Archived projects:
  • Add link to Archived Projects on Projects page
  • Hide archived projects from Theme page hierarchical listings
  • Leave archived projects from Project Family sidebar section, for now - may revisit that decision in the future

Morgan White gave an overview of the iCAP 2020 goals and iCAP portal, discussing the iCAP process (how students, faculty, and staff are involved in different parts of the process).

The meeting covered several key updates and discussions on sustainability initiatives. The Chair provided updates on the Green Training Program survey, seeking feedback on student engagement strategies. The Vice Chair discussed efforts for a greener campus, including outreach to Greek Life. The Clerk emphasized the importance of in-person meetings and marketing materials. Guest speakers highlighted upcoming events like Sustainapalooza and Illinifest, stressing the logistical challenges and opportunities for student involvement. Discussions included promotional outreach, sustainability projects such as Greener Chapters yard signs and low-maintenance greenery at ISR, and the importance of connecting sustainability efforts across campus. Additionally, engagement team members offered support for these initiatives, and an approved course for next semester was announced. Adam encouraged members to consider speaking at the sustainability film festival.

The iCAP Education team met on Teams from 4-5 PM on Monday February 10th. First we reviewed materials for the Green Career Forum, then we identified the progress and next steps for establishing the Sustainability Gen-Ed Requirement, then we introduced the possibility of a Suatainability Exit Survey, and lastly we closed by delegating research tasks for the 2025 AASHE stars report. The meeting minutes are attached.