National Trends in Sustainability Performance: Lessons from Facilities Leaders

This article from Facilities Manager (PDF) describes some of the findings of a 2008 study (with which SCUP assisted) by the Campus Ecology Project revealed campus operations as leading the effort to green college and university campuses. The study compared 2008 trends with those of 2001 and identified some missed opportunities.

Facilities and other operations staff do have a ways to go,
however, in fully seizing the potential to reduce waste and curb
costs. One of the missed opportunities to curb waste and costs is
to monitor energy consumption on a building-by-building basis
through the use of utility sub-meters—only 29 percent report
monitoring energy use in more than 50
percent of the buildings on campus.
Investing in generating clean, renewable
energy on-site is another largely
missed opportunity to curb costs
long-term. Fewer than one-fifth of
schools report using either on-campus
clean sources for heating and cooling
(14 percent of schools) or on-campus
cogenerated heat and electricity (9
percent of schools), and the percentage
generating clean electricity on-site (as
noted above) is even lower.