ALBERT DORMAN HONORS COLLEGE

MURRAY CENTER FOR WOMEN IN TECHNOLOGY

and sIGMA XI - NJIT CHAPTER present a seminar on

Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 3:00 – 4:30 p.m.

Campus Center Ballroom

New Jersey Institute of Technology

ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABILITY: THE HARVARD CASE STUDY

Leith Sharp Founding Director Harvard Green Campus Initiative

It takes much more than the appropriate technology to create a sustainable green environment and organizational culture. Learn about the challenges of such a transformation at the Technology and Society Forum presentation by Leith Sharp on March 25. Using Harvard University as a case study, Sharp will provide an overview of effective strategies for navigating the related financial, political, technical and human resource barriers that often act to slow down progress as we strive to integrate sustainability into the life of the campus community.

Sharp has almost 20 years of experience in greening universities and has worked with universities to achieve organizational change in the pursuit of environmental sustainability. In 1995, she established one of world's first green campus programs at the University of New South Wales, Australia. In 1999, Harvard recruited Leith to be the founding director of the university’s Green Campus Initiative (Recently renamed the Office for Sustainability). By 2007 Harvard had the largest green campus organization in the world and was a recognized global leader in campus sustainability.

Sharp has been a consultant to over 100 organizations and teaches organizational change and green building design at Harvard. She has received numerous awards for her work, including a Churchill Fellowship and Young Australian of the Year, NSW Environment Category.

Co-sponsors: NJIT Technology and Society Forum Committee, Albert Dorman Honors College, Murray Center for Women in Technology and Sigma Xi.

NJIT welcomes attendees from Essex County College, Rutgers-Newark, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey.

For information, contact Dr. Jay Kappraff: at (973)596-3490 or at   kappraff@adm.njit.edu

Information and directions to NJIT are also available on the Web at http://www.njit.edu/about/visit/gettingtonjit.php

For information on the NJIT Technology and Society Forum, visit http://tsf.njit.edu

For information on the Albert Dorman Honors College, visit http://honors.njit.edu/

For information on the NJIT Chapter of Sigma Xi, visit http://www.njit.edu/v2/professional_society/sigmaxi/

Wednesday, April 1 Dr. DAVID ROTHENBERG

Department of Humanities, NJIT College of Science and Liberal Arts

“WHY WHALES AND BIRDS SING”

(click here for information and abstract).

Monday, April 6 Dr. JEROME BAKER

Executive Director, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society:

“THE VALUE OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

(click here for information and abstract).