The sustainability survey collaborated with over 300 schools in North America, sampling colleges and universities in all 50 states and 8 Canadian provinces.

[2] The Report Card has been covered in numerous media outlets, including The New York Times, BusinessWeek, Forbes, and CNN Money.

[3] The project surveyed administrators, students, and campus community members on 9 sustainability-related categories: administration, climate change and energy, food and recycling, green building, student involvement, transportation, endowment transparency, investment priorities, and stakeholder engagement.

SEI supplemented these surveys with publicly available information to assess a grade, from an F to an A, for each institution based on the total number of points earned for each category.

GRITS was featured in a New York Times article "Investing in Energy Efficiency Pays Off" in February 2015.