Our Mission:
We envision the Sustainability Initiative as integral to our institutional efforts to enhance DePauw’s intellectual life and build meaningful relationships between DePauw and our surrounding community. We have, therefore, taken these concerns — as well as our foundational values — seriously in developing our mission statement.

The mission of DePauw’s Sustainability Initiative is to create and sustain a nationally recognized living laboratory and learning community that incorporates the letter and spirit of our foundational sustainability principles into all facets of campus life. The Sustainability Initiative will act as a broad, integrative priority on our campus, suffused with intellectual vigor. We will welcome participation and leadership from all university stakeholder groups -- administration, trustees, alumni, faculty, staff, students and the surrounding community -- in our efforts to form a just and sustainable environmental, economic and social future.