The Sustainable Endowments Institute, a group based in Washington, D.C., has released the College Sustainability Report Card 2008. The report

is the only independent sustainability evaluation of campus operations and endowment investments. Published by the Sustainable Endowments Institute, it assesses the 200 public and private universities with the largest endowments, ranging from $230 million to nearly $35 billion.

Each school is rated from A to F on eight different criteria, including Climate Change and Energy, Green Building, and the like. The grades are then averaged to get the overall rating. Although there are no “winners” or “losers” in this, here are the winners and losers.

Only Harvard, Dartmouth, University of Washington, Middlebury, Carleton, and University of Vermont performed well enough in all categories to merit the highest overall grade of “A-,” earning them the distinction of College Sustainability Leaders.

The Juilliard School, Howard University, Regent University, and Samford University yielded overall “F” grades, followed by 21 schools carrying a grade of “D-.”

As for me, my alma mater got a C, while the school I’ll be attending in the fall got a C-. Awesome. Now, just to play devil’s advocate here, Loyola Marymount University’s blurb about Climate Change and Energy says the school “has the largest solar electric rooftop of any university in the world. The solar roof system generates 868,000 kilowatt-hours annually, providing 26 percent of total energy used at the university.” That’s good enough for a C. So…yeah.

and read the summary of the report, and here and read the whole thing. If you happen to still be in school, or going back soon (thank God for graduate programs), you can here and learn how to green your campus.