A UFSM é uma universidade sustentável

Universidade Federal de Santa Maria - UFSM - has the mission of building and diffusing knowledge in a sustainable manner. But how can it know if its practices are enough for it to be called sustainable? The aim of this study is to evaluate the performance of UFSM’s city campus by GreenMetric: a sustainability performance measurement model for universities that annually ranks its users. Results by category, on a scale from one to ten, were: energy and climate change 2.7, education and research 5.0, transportation 5.0, waste 7.5, setting and infrastructure 5.5, and water 2.0. The measure of the sustainability performance resulted in 4.8 points. Considering the university's knowledge assessment methodology, which has a minimum grade of five points, the measure of 4.8 points is insufficient. Key-words: sustainability; Greenmetric; performance measurement.