BU's Environmental Grade Deflation

The Sustainable Endowments Institute puts out a report every year grading major universities on their commitment to environmental sustainability initiatives. For 2008, BU received a C, which is actually an entire letter grade above last year (we are among the biggest improvers over last year's report). We're actually among the leading universities in the Food & Recycling category, but fall short in most of the others - especially in endowment transparency (grade: F). In case you're wondering, overall grades for Northeastern - B, MIT - B+, and Harvard - A-, putting them at the top of the class, naturally. But at least we only tied with BC. Here are links to BU's report card and the entire report.