The King's Connection Magazine Volume 23 Number 3//Spring 2013 | Page 12
campus news
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King’s Sustainability
Achievements Recognized
on sustainability in our academic programs, places King’s in
a strong position to provide creative institutional leadership in
advocating for sustainability.”
K
ing’s has received a STARS Silver Rating in recognition
of its sustainability achievements from the Association for
the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
STARS, the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating
System, is a new program that measures and encourages
sustainability in all aspects of higher education.
AASHE’s STARS program is the only one of its kind that involves
publicly reporting comprehensive information related to a
college or university’s sustainability performance. Participants
report achievements in three overall areas: 1) education
& research, 2) operations, and 3) planning, administration
& engagement.
“The achievement of a Silver rating represents another step
forward in implementing the Sustainability Statement of Action
adopted by The King’s University College in 2010,” says
President Fernhout. “I am particularly pleased that the transition
from a Bronze to a Silver rating was achieved by improved
practices and better documentation in institutional operations.
Progress in these areas, combined with a healthy emphasis
“STARS was developed by the campus sustainability
community to provide high standards for recognizing campus
sustainability efforts,” said AASHE Executive Director Paul
Rowland. “The King’s University College has demonstrated a
substantial commitment to sustainability by achieving a STARS
Silver Rating and is to be congratulated for their efforts.”
Website Wins International Award
K
ing’s website, kingsu.ca, has been awarded two
international design awards - a Gold MarCom
Award from The Association for Marketing and
Communication Professionals (AMCP) and an Outstanding
Achievement Award in the university category from the
Interactive Media Council’s Interactive Media Awards. Both
honours were awarded to Edmonton-based media agency Box
Clever, web developers for the project.
“It’s very exciting to win two awards of this caliber. The King’s
University College website was a big project, and we had a lot
of fun working on it with the King’s team. To see that effort, and
the great working relationship we have with King’s, rewarded
in an international arena — that’s awesome,” says Steve Mebs,
principal at Box Clever.
For the Gold MarCom Award, the largest competition of its
kind in the world, King’s website beat out 83 other entries
for the award. The Interactive Media Council stated in their
announcement, “The Outstanding Achievement award is the
second highest honor bestowed and an extremely challenging
award to win. Your website has excelled in all areas of our
judging criteria and represents a very high standard of planning,
execution and overall professionalism.”
Launched at the end of August, the King’s website was
developed with input from faculty and staff. It focuses on
better serving current students, prospective students, alumni
and donors through new features including a searchable staff/
faculty directory, mobile sites for iPad and iPhone, and social
media integration. ?
10 /// The King’s Connection /// Spring 2013
left to right: Samantha
Students Shine at City Hall Event
by Dr. Randolph Haluza-DeLay, Associate Professor, Sociology
S
tudents from The King’s University College stepped up at a
public event at Edmonton City Hall when the main speaker
was stopped by snow, March 21. The event was
an interfaith commemoration of the International
Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
Students in Sociology 360 (Social Inequality in
a Global Age) helped organize the event cosponsored by the Edmonton Interfaith Centre
and Racism-Free Edmonton. The Interfaith
commemoration was the 21st Annual service
held at Edmonton City Hall. The event included
prayers from various faith traditions, a choir,
greetings from the Edmonton Mayor, and
Council delivered by Councillor Amarjeet Sohi.
The King’s students were to be the final element
in the event, before a unison commitment
to work to eliminate racism. But when the
keynote speaker could not make the event, the
students were moved to that central place in the
programme.
“We have taken systemic racism as our theme
because most people do not think about this
type of racism,” announced Samantha
Walker to introduce their presentation.
Katie Gatzki and Kyle Klassen followed
with stories of urban segregation and the justice
system. Veronica Mager concluded by
retelling the New Testament parable of The Good Samaritan as
an example of someone who “blatantly undermined the societal
Walker, Katie Gatzki, Veronica Mager, Kyle Klassen
structure of the day.” After all, it was only the Samaritan — a
despised ethnic group — who took care of the wounded man.
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