The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS) is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. Developed by AASHE, STARS is designed to:

- Provide a framework for understanding sustainability in all sectors of higher education.

- Enable meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions using a common set of measurements developed with broad participation from the campus sustainability community.

- Create incentives for continual improvement toward sustainability.

- Facilitate information sharing about higher education sustainability practices and performance.

- Build a stronger, more diverse campus sustainability community.

In 2011, FSU earned a STARS Silver recognition for our campus sustainability efforts. Read our full STARS report here.