Georgia Tech Sustainability Champion: June 2024
Jason Wang, Senior Director, Institutional Research and Planning
Jason Wang, Senior Director, Institutional Research and Planning, is the June 2024 Georgia Tech Sustainability Champion.
About Jason
As a triple Jacket, Jason Wang has a strong dedication to Georgia Tech. For the past several years, he has lent his expertise in managing data from across the Institute to support sustainability reporting efforts. Sustainability reports enable Georgia Tech to identify opportunities for improvement and highlight progress. The Office of Sustainability is extremely appreciative of Jason’s contributions.
From the nomination:
“Jason has helped the Office of Sustainability and Sustainability Next collect data for numerous projects including serving on the team for the The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS®) Report for over a year. Jason is always willing to connect on how data can be most efficiently shared and used to connect folks from across campus.”
“Despite his demanding job, Jason repeatedly and graciously makes time to support requests from the sustainability team. This helps us ensure our reports are consistent with data reporting from other units in the Institute.”
Q&A
Q: Title:
A: Senior Director, Institutional Research and Planning
Q: How long have you been at Georgia Tech?
A: Over 5 years in GT IRP, but I first started at Tech as an undergraduate in Fall 2004
Q: What does sustainability mean to you and/or why is it important?
A: Sustainability to me means taking responsibility for our actions and acting intentionally to build or enhance systems and processes that will ensure the “next” is possible. When I think about the IRP office as a living system, I ask myself whether or not what I am doing now is going to help this system to continue to thrive after I am gone.
Q: What is your favorite quote about sustainability?
A: Coincidentally sustainability related, lol. From the movie Gladiator, “What we do in life… echoes in eternity.”
Q: What is your favorite daily sustainability practice?
A: Growing as much of my own food as I can! We have a variety of fruit growing on my property and also are members of a CSA where we get local fruit, vegetables, milk, and eggs.