CULTURE & SUSTAINABILITY INITIATIVE (CAS) 
Commitment to Being a Cultural Development Campus
As a Cultural Development Campus, UNH is committed to being a model sustainable community in the state and region: we consider culture and the arts as fundamental to sustainability as clean air and water. UNH is meeting this commitment through its University-wide Culture & Sustainability Initiative (CAS), the mission of which is to integrate the ethics and policies of conserving and developing our cultural heritage into the University’s identity and practices. To accomplish this mission, the CAS is actively engaging the University community in efforts that increase their awareness and support of public arts and our cultural and natural heritage.
Under CAS, UNH is committed to:
- Creative Campus: Increasing community participation in and exposure to the fine and performing arts through live performance, exhibitions, and collective art (such as choruses, orchestras/ensembles, dance, and mural creation). Bringing together scholars and students from across disciplines to discover and develop new ways of understanding the relationship between culture and sustainability at UNH and beyond.
- Democratic Participation: Increasing civic discourse among students, faculty, staff, and the local community by providing opportunities and experiences that inspire and facilitate discourse on issues related to sustainability, cultural and natural heritage, public arts, justice, and sense of place.
- Vibrant Communities: Increasing common experiences that express a sense of place at UNH that can be shared by students, faculty, staff, and local residents.
- Social Justice: Increasing student exposure to humanistic treatments of particular issues of justice on the campus, in the region and country, and around the world.
- Cultural Heritage: Conserving and developing cultural and natural heritage. Nurturing an historical consciousness through celebration of local and regional history.
