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Key Competencies in Sustainability: Curriculum and Program Development
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
Every year, new sustainability degree programs are launched at colleges and universities across the USA joining a global trend of sustainability degree programs offered at higher education institutions worldwide. This ...
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Applied Learning: Interventions for Sustainability Impacts
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University of Calgary (AB)
Applied learning (AL) for sustainability is an umbrella term and encompasses student engagement activities (e.g., internships, courses, research practicums) that deliver exceptional student experiences and a positive outcome for ...
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Key Competencies in Sustainability: Overview and Next Steps
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Chatham University (PA)
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
The Panel-discussion is part of a nationwide process to solicit feedback on an initiative with the National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE). The goal of the initiative is ...
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Improving Our Understanding of Sustainability with Bio-Mimicry
- Schuler Books (MI)
Some systems are much more sustainable than others, and this is not random. It is because certain key properties are present in more sustainable systems, but absent from unsustainable systems ...
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Achieving SDGs and Engaging Higher Education Using EPA Tools
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) provides a suite of freely available, web-based tools that assist diverse audiences, including higher education institutions, in tackling local and regional environmental problems ...
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Win-Win-Win: Incorporating Authentic Sustainability Learning Into Technical College Courses
- Western Technical College (WI)
Incorporating sustainability in the curriculum need not be a one-off or a stretch to fit in any curricula, even those not typically associated with sustainability. Hear one example of how ...
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Sustainability in the Visual Arts, Design and Creative Fields
- University of San Francisco (CA)
Designers make the most beautiful trash. Educators in Design, Visual Arts, and other creative fields are challenged with educating our students on how to create high impact messages with low ...
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Academia as a Platform for Student Sustainability Action on Campus and in Your Community
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
Students at the University of Pittsburgh have been driving environmental and sustainability changes on campus and in the Pittsburgh community for more than a decade through classes designed to engage ...
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Worry & Hope: Results from a Focus Group Study on Students and Sustainability Curriculum
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
The University of Hawaii used a focus group study across ten campuses to better understand student perspectives on global and local environmental issues, climate change, and sustainability, and how these ...
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Planning and Implementing a University-Wide Curriculum Disruption to Teach About Climate Justice
- The New School (NY)
From February 26-March 2, 2018, The New School will invite all 14,000 faculty, staff, and students to participate in a university-wide curriculum disruption entitled 'Disrupt Climate Injustice.' This means ...
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Laudato Si and UNSDGs: An Ignatian Framework for Teaching Human Geography
- St. Louis University High School (MO)
St. Louis University High School created an innovative Human Geography course incorporating the AP Human Geography curriculum with studies of Ignatian values based on Pope Francis' 'Laudato Si: On Care ...
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High Impact Pedagogical Practices for High Impact Sustainability Learning
- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) (IN)
In the face of a rapidly-changing planet, sustainability is one of the most promising solutions to address social, economic, and environmental problems. Through IUPUI's Themed Learning Community (TLC), 'Sustainability ...
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Campus Sustainability 101 - A New Course for First Year Students
- DePauw University (IN)
Due to their complex and global nature, modern environmental problems like climate change, water scarcity, or mass extinction events can be overwhelming and really, really scary, especially for college students ...
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How Do We Meaningfully Integrate Sustainability Into Global Studies Curricula?
- Champlain College (VT)
As higher education increasingly acknowledges the necessity of producing a globally-engaged student body, it has a responsibility to create a high-quality and relevant global studies curriculum. Former iterations of global ...
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Advancing Sustainability: Student-led Projects, Interdisciplinary Studies, and Inter-Silo Teamwork
- Carleton College (MN)
Carleton College's study abroad program titled 'Sustainable Energy Principles and Practices in India' exemplifies how higher education institutions can foster experiences and skills that students can use to promote ...
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Teaching Sustainability and Environmental Stewardship Through Contemporary Art
- Beloit College (WI)
What role can art play in solving current environmental challenges? What should artists do to promote awareness? Is it ethical for artists to make more objects in a world already ...
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Best Practices in Integrating Sustainability and Business Education
- Appalachian State University (NC)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
This workshop focuses on how to integrate sustainability concepts into business education and increase engagement with the business community to improve their impacts. The primary focus will be on how ...
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Experience The SDGs Abroad: Reimagine Your Curriculum with The GREEN Program
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
The GREEN Program (TGP) is an experiential education and workforce development program for young leaders in sustainable development. Created for students, by students, TGP has introduced a new model for ...
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Building on the NAE Grand Challenges Scholars Model to Incorporate the UN SDGs in Higher Education
- Bucknell University (PA)
As sustainability becomes a more and more popular addition in the higher education system, attempts to incorporate it into existing curricula and campus life diversify and too often lose their ...
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Pulling the Paradox of the SDGs down to Uneven Ground: A Transdisciplinary Learning Journey
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- University of Vermont (VT)
Advocates of the Sustainable Development Goals see them as an important improvement over the Millennium Development Goals, that expired in 2015, that represent an inspiring and inclusive framework for international ...
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A New Resource To Engage Your Chemistry Department In Sustainability
- Beyond Benign (MA)
Despite the underlying fundamental reliance on chemistry innovations for a more sustainable future, undergraduate chemistry teaching laboratories still use traditional experiments that are resource-intensive and employ hazardous reagents. It is ...
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Escaping the Silos and Generating Collaborations: A Sustainable Faculty Development Program
- Furman University (SC)
The Faculty Affiliates Program gives faculty from all departments on our campus opportunities to meet monthly during the academic year to share ideas, generate resources and foster interdisciplinary connections throughout ...
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How to Create an Innovative and Interdisciplinary Sustainability Major
- University of Virginia (VA)
This case study examines several innovative degree programs that create unusual disciplinary alliances with sustainability. Integrating sustainability across the curriculum is an important goal for AASHE members. While many universities ...
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The Sustainability Exchange at Washington University - Interdisciplinary Focus on Real World Issues
- Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects (MO)
The Sustainability Exchange, founded in 2014 by Bill Lowry and Liz Kramer, brings together students from across the academic spectrum to focus on and seek solutions to real world issues ...
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Green Chemistry: Meeting the Challenge of Equity and Environmental Justice for a Sustainable Future
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
- American Chemical Society (DC)
Chemistry is an inherently creative yet reductionist approach to understanding how the world works at the most fundamental levels. Chemists are trained to create molecules to fill a given need ...
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Pursuing the SDGs in Education Abroad: Tools, Techniques, and Assessment Strategies
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- The Education Abroad Network (IL)
Well-designed education abroad programs expose students to the many ways other cultures prioritize and pursue the UN SDG's. Foreign approaches to sustainability, biodiversity, and social justice reveal to students ...
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Sustainability in American Topics: US History, Conservation, and Sustainable Development Goals
- Dallas College (TX)
Feasted Landscapes: Sustainability in American Topics' is the title of a two-volume reader that contains a collection of primary sources and original short essays that focus on sustainability issues throughout ...
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From the 3Es to the SDGs: Updating Sustainability Frameworks Used as Educational Tools
- Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
With the 2015 announcement of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the 2030 Agenda, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the multitude of research projects, policies, and frameworks of Sustainable ...
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Uniting Human Rights and Sustainability Across the University
- University of Dayton (OH)
The United Nations Agenda 2030 and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) are a powerful framework for alleviating human suffering and achieving social and environmental justice. However, making progress on the the ...
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From Theory to Practice: Applied Community Projects in Environmental Capstone Courses
- Earlham College (IN)
Over the past five years, Environmental Studies and Environmental Sustainability seniors at Earlham College have completed an 'integrated research project (IRP)' in collaboration with a community partner. The IRP is ...
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Service and Community Engaged Learning for Social and Environmental Justice
- Champlain College (VT)
- Southern Oregon University (OR)
- University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College (HI)
- Villanova University (PA)
Service-Learning / Community Engaged Learning is a common practice in higher education and is increasingly found being paired with sustainability. This networking session will allow practitioners to share best practices, learn ...
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AIM2Flourish: Transforming Management Education Through Positive Business Innovation Stories
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
The UN Global Goals are the 'World's Must-Do List' to end poverty, combat climate change, protect life on land, and ensure a livable future for all people. Many business ...
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Demonstrating Impact Through SDG Cases - Creating Common Language and Shared Purpose Across Campus
- Harvard University (MA)
- Danish Energy Management
The UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) exist as a Global platform for taking action to achieve sustainable development. The SDGs recognize that staying within our planetary boundaries and achieving sustainable ...
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STARS Reporting as an Undergraduate Educational Opportunity
- University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (IL)
The University of Illinois, a STARS Gold Campus, has a strong focus on expanding its campus sustainability efforts. Since our 2017 report, administrators have made an increased effort to align ...
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Scenario Planning and Applied Learning in Sustainability Practica
- Middlebury College (VT)
Scenario planning is a versatile and widely applicable tool for developing robust strategies for dealing with uncertainty. It is used across numerous domains including national visioning and transition efforts, military ...
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Re-Design Certificate: Regenerative Ecological Design
- Ecosa Institute (AZ)
United Nations Environmental Program has claimed that our planet is amid its sixth major extinction of biological diversity. U.N. scientists estimate that 150-200 species become extinct every 24 hours ...
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Mindful Unbuilding: A Zero Waste Campus-Community Adventure
- DePauw University (IN)
What does a university do with a vacant old house that cannot be restored? Ordinarily: bulldoze it and haul it away to a landfill. But what if you were to ...
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Teach Environmental Sustainability via Children's Literature
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
We propose to share methods of integration into curriculum and resources for teacher-educators to reach their students, starting with elementary students and continuing on up the grades, K-12. Because children ...
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Using STARS reporting as a framework for a modular campus sustainability plan
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
Creating a campus sustainability plan can be a daunting and complex task. In addition, limited staff and financial resources may also be barriers to creating a robust sustainability plan. The ...
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Sustainability Workshop Series
- Northern Michigan University (MI)
Northern Michigan University: EcoReps cohort one Sustainability Workshop Series This poster highlights the structure, funding, and success of the Sustainability Workshop Series piloted by Northern Michigan University EcoReps in the ...
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State of the Association Address: AASHE Member Meeting
- AASHE (MA)
Come join the AASHE Board and Staff while we present the AASHE 'state of the organization' address. You'll hear highlights from the member survey, programmatic priorities, and AASHE's ...
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Strategies for an Actionable Sustainability Plan: Tools and Lessons Learned From the Field
- American University (DC)
- Santa Clara University (CA)
- University of North Carolina, Charlotte (NC)
- LINK Strategic Partners (DC)
A common institutional challenge is to find an appropriate process for developing or revisiting strategic plans to advance sustainability, resilience, and climate action. Though a one-size-fits-all model has not emerged ...
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Leveraging the Campus Sustainability Committee: Zombie Committees vs Robust Change Agents
- Cornell University (NY)
- Duke University (NC)
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
What is the secret to successful sustainability committees? Is there a magic formula for long-term effectiveness or do the committees need to evolve over time? Once sustainability programs become more ...
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Sustainability in the C-Suite: Preliminary Study Results
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
- GreenerU (MA)
- Koya Leadership Partners (DC)
Sustainability can be a strategic driver when the function is included at the highest level of an organization. What are the most innovative leaders in higher education, business, and government ...
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Shooting for the STARS - How your Campus can use STARS to Measure Progress Toward the SDGs
- University of Calgary (AB)
In late 2017, the University of Calgary was selected by public vote as a UN Sustainable Development Goal winner in Canada. The majority of outcomes that attracted this positive recognition ...
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STARS Town Hall
- AASHE (MA)
This session will feature a preview of the next version of STARS (2.2) from AASHE staff and will also provide an opportunity for attendees to pose questions and participate ...
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Is STARS Pre-Submission Review Required Now?
- Connecticut College (CT)
- Creighton University (NE)
- AASHE (MA)
- GreenerU (MA)
As part of our efforts to improve STARS data quality, AASHE released a STARS Review Template and conducted a STARS Review Pilot in spring 2018. Over a dozen Pilot participants ...
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Overcoming Administrative Barriers in Waste Management Projects
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
My project will be primarily covering the barriers that many students face when trying to implement new sustainable projects on their campuses. The focus of my project will be a ...
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Case Study Revisited: Confirming how to Achieve Progressive Campus Sustainability Measures
- South Dakota State University (SD)
A decade has passed since previous qualitative research was collected and evaluated to determine how three campuses achieved progressive measures of environmental sustainability. The findings of this comparative case study ...
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Global Priorities, Educated Solutions: the Role of Academia in Advancing the SDGs
- Yale University (CT)
In 2015, the Office of Sustainability created a project aimed at understanding how Yale's teaching and research aligns with the SDGs, with the purposes of: (i) identifying pathways for ...
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