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Presidents’ Declaration on the Civic Responsibility of Higher Education
- Campus Compact (MA)
The purpose of this statement is to articulate the commitment of all sectors of higher education, public and private, two- and four-year, to their civic purposes and to identify the ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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University of Redlands Proposal for Expanded Composting
- University of Redlands (CA)
We are currently living in a time with inequity, economic instability and environmental degradation. The University of Redlands campus claims to be sustainable, however, we lack many forms of renewable ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Anchor Institutions Toolkit: A guide for neighborhood revitalization
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
This is a Toolkit for Anchor Institutions to use as a guide to rebuild, revitalize, strengthen and improve their local communities.
Each of the tools in this kit was developed ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Netter Center for Community Partnerships
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Founded in 1992, the Barbara and Edward Netter Center for Community Partnerships is Penn’s primary vehicle for bringing to bear the broad range of human knowledge needed to solve ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
A growing number of universities are dedicating resources to support their surrounding communities, but much potential for advancement remains. A university’s mission as an “anchor institution,” as defined by ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Calling the Question: Is Higher Education Ready to Commit to Community Engagement?
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
This document reflects the collaborative work of the assembled participants of the 2004 Wingspread conference: Institutionalizing University Engagement. It notes that, despite a decade of calls to action, engagement has ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Personal values and attitudes towards societal and environmental accountability: a study of MBA students
Efforts to promote corporate societal and environmental accountability (SEA) should be informed by an understanding of stakeholders’ attitudes toward enhanced accountability standards. However, little is known regarding current attitudes on ...
- Posted May 23, 2016
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Carbon On-Setting: Community Impact through Home Weatherization in Greenville, SC
- Furman University (SC)
The Community Conservation Corps (CCC), a program of the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability at Furman University, provides free home weatherization to low-income homeowners in the greater Greenville, South ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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MBA Concentration in Sustainable Business
- City University of New York, Baruch College (NY)
Students in the Zicklin School Of Business MBA program may specialize in Sustainable Business during their second year. The four-course major is conceptually anchored in strategy, with the understanding that ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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Sustainable Entrepreneurship MBA (SEMBA)
- University of Vermont (VT)
The University of Vermont’s accelerated one-year Sustainable Entrepreneurship MBA (SEMBA) was designed from the ground up to challenge the traditional MBA. The curriculum has been reinvented to address the ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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Master of Science in Sustainability Management (MScSM)
- University of Toronto (ON)
The Master of Science in Sustainability Management (MScSM) program provides the training for graduates to act outside the traditional disciplinary black boxes; integrate knowledge from management, social, and natural sciences ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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Rian Fried Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Food Systems
- Sterling College (VT) (VT)
Recognizing that building a healthy and just food system is among the most critical challenges facing humanity in the 21st century, the Rian Fried Center for Sustainable Agriculture & Food ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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Center for Sustainable Business Practices
- University of Oregon (OR)
Part of the Business Innovation Institute at the Lundquist College of Business and housed in one of the nation's most environmentally friendly business school facilities, the Center for Sustainable ...
- Posted May 20, 2016
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Tufts University Earth Fest Celebration
- Tufts University (MA)
The Tufts community came out to celebrate our planet on Earth Day with Tufts Sustainability Collective (TSC) and the Tufts Eco Reps! A clothing swap, food, prizes, music and a ...
- Posted May 19, 2016
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A Strategy for Energy Performance Analysis at the Early Design Stage: Predicted vs. Actual Building Energy Performance
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Developments in information technology are providing methods to improve current design practices, where uncertainties about various design elements can be simulated and studied from the design inception. Energy and thermal ...
- Posted May 19, 2016
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Center for Education on Social Responsibility
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
The purpose of the Center for Education on Social Responsibility (CESR) is to advance the Leeds School of Business’ commitment to preparing future leaders to confront social, environmental, economic, and ...
- Posted May 19, 2016
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Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement describes the contradictions, unrealized potential, and unrecognized urgency of the causes as well as the risks and rewards of ...
- Posted May 19, 2016
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Prairie Climate Atlas
- University of Winnipeg (MB)
The new Prairie Climate Atlas is an interactive, online tool that uses climate data, geovisualizations and multimedia to map the dramatic changes predicted for the Canadian Prairies. The Atlas is ...
- Posted May 17, 2016
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How We Came to Inhabit These Spaces: Reflections on the Role of Place in Our Individual and Collective Journeys as Emerging Sustainability Scholars
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
This paper provides a descriptive analysis of the experience of four doctoral students engaged in a collective project of place exploration at a mid sized Canadian university. Under the methodological ...
- Posted May 17, 2016
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True Merit: Ensuring Our Brightest Students Have Access to Our Best Colleges and Universities
Representation of low-income students at selective colleges and universities has not changed in ten years despite selective institutions’ well-advertised, increased commitment to “need-blind admissions” and “no-loan financial aid” packages. All ...
- Posted May 17, 2016
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The methodology and results of using life cycle assessment to measure and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions footprint of Major Events at the University of Arizona
- Michigan Technological University (MI)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
In 2012 and 2013, the University of Arizona’s Office of Sustainability conducted environmental life cycle assessments of two Homecoming events that drew 60,000 attendees each. Based on reviews ...
- Posted May 17, 2016
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Sustainability and Social Innovation MBA Concentration
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
After focusing primarily on business fundamentals throughout their first year, MBA students at Smeal College of Business may choose to concentrate on Sustainability and Social Innovation in their second year ...
- Posted May 16, 2016
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Medium-scale Vertical-Axis Wind Turbine
- Iowa Lakes Community College (IA)
Wind is something Iowa Lakes Community College knows well. After two years of solid engineering, one of its partners has donated a game-changing turbine prototype to their school. Because of ...
- Posted May 15, 2016
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An Economical Analysis of the USFSP Solar Parking Garage
- University of South Florida St. Petersburg (FL)
This undergraduate student paper was accepted without revision as an oral presentation at the ICES 2016: 18th International Conference on Energy held in Paris. The topic is an economical analysis ...
- Posted May 13, 2016
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A Statistical Analysis of the USFSP Solar Parking Garage
- University of South Florida St. Petersburg (FL)
This undergraduate student paper was accepted without revision as an oral presentation at the ICES 2016 : 18th International Conference on Energy held in Paris. The topic is a statistical analysis ...
- Posted May 13, 2016
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Monash Sustainable Development Institute
- Monash University (VIC)
The Monash Sustainable Development Institute tackles sustainability challenges head on with distinctive interdisciplinary approach. It pulls together scientists, lawyers, economists, psychologists, biologists, engineers, health professionals, training experts and more to ...
- Posted May 13, 2016
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Going Geothermal: The Project Dedication Video
- Ball State University (IN)
True to our tradition of innovation, Ball State continues to be revolutionary and responsible. We are creating the nation's largest ground-source, closed-loop district geothermal energy system, benefiting both the ...
- Posted May 13, 2016
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Geothermal A-Maze!
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
Part of your legacy at UIC could be #AMaze! Help us to design it!
There is a deep hole next to University Hall. As deep as University Hall is tall ...
- Posted May 13, 2016
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Organizational transformation and higher sustainability management education: The case of the MBA Sustainability Management
- Griffith University (Queensland)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Purpose
This paper aims to investigate the roles of leadership in enabling sustainability transformation of universities and higher sustainability management education. It advocates research into the role of leadership for ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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Educating change agents for sustainability – learnings from the first sustainability management master of business administration
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
In recent years, knowledge and capabilities to manage corporate sustainability have become a significant component of different career paths in companies, consultancies, and even in non-profit and public institutions. As ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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Centre for Sustainability Management
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The Centre for Sustainability Management (CSM) conducts research, teaching and continuous education in the fields of entrepreneurial sustainability management, corporate social responsibility (CSR) and social entrepreneurship. With a strong focus ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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Minor in Sustainability Science
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The Minor in Sustainability Science provides a comprehensive exploration of the issue of sustainable development and integrates social, cultural, ecological/environmental and economic perspectives through project-based work. It includes inter- ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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MBA in Sustainability Management
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Students in this programme learn a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary subjects related to sustainability management and corporate social responsibility (CSR). They also acquire comprehensive general management qualifications and the ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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MSc in Global Sustainability Science
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
The two-year dual degree program in Global Sustainability Science is jointly administered by Arizona State University and Leuphana University of Lüneburg. It aims to provide an academically well balanced education ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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MSc in Sustainability Science
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
A distinctive feature of Leuphana University Lüneburg's inter- and transdisciplinary research-oriented and problem-focused Master's program in Sustainability Sciences is its balance between sustainable natural sciences and sustainable humanities ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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MBA Concentration in Social Change
- Clark University (MA)
The Clark Graduate School of Management’s MBA Concentration in Social Change helps business students gain specialized knowledge to effect positive environmental, social and economic change. Through this unique concentration ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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MBA Concentration in Social Change & Sustainability
- Clark University (MA)
Clark University's MBA Concentration in Social Change & Sustainability is for business leaders who want to take on environmental sustainability challenges. The program helps students integrate business management, leadership ...
- Posted May 12, 2016
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Earth Days 2016 at Johnson County Community College
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
Our Earth Days 2016 events included several activities in addition to those pictured here, but these were two of our most popular. Epicenter, a one-day, student-focused conference on careers in ...
- Posted May 11, 2016
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Zygmunt, the electric car
- Universidad de Monterrey
Monterrey is the third largest city in Mexico, and there is about 2 million cars. This amount of vehicles creates traffic jams, pollute the air and chaos. According to the ...
- Posted May 10, 2016
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MBA in Global Sustainable Management
- Anaheim University (CA)
Anaheim University's MBA in Global Sustainable Management (also refered to as the Online Green MBA) focuses on leadership, social responsibility and sustainable practices. Students must complete 12 courses in ...
- Posted May 10, 2016
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Business pedagogy for social justice? An exploratory investigation of business faculty perspectives of social justice in business education
- York University
What needs to happen in business schools to create a space for social justice? In this article I explore business faculty members’ perspectives on social justice as a means of ...
- Posted May 10, 2016
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Business Ethics and Social Responsibility Education: Shifting the Worldview
- DePaul University (IL)
- Temple University (PA)
While the topics of business ethics and social responsibility education have received much attention in scholarly and pedagogical literature (although less in the pedagogical literature), the authors argue that the ...
- Posted May 10, 2016
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A Methodology for Building Faculty Support for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education
- Kennesaw State University (GA)
Evidence from extant literature indicates that faculty support is a critical driver for implementing the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), particularly for schools pursuing an advanced, cross-disciplinary ...
- Posted May 10, 2016
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University of Toronto Community Connects With Nature
- University of Toronto (ON)
Many people think that to explore nature you need to get in a car and drive for an hour. For U of T staff and students, it was a 15-minute ...
- Posted May 9, 2016
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Decision-Analytic Approach for Water Sustainability Definition: A Higher Education Case Study
- George Washington University (DC)
The purpose of this paper is to describe the development of a multi-criteria decision analysis approach that can be used to circumscribe the definition of sustainability within an organization or ...
- Posted May 9, 2016
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Academic Jet-Setting in a Time of Climate Destabilization: Ecological Privilege and Professional Geographic Travel
- Vassar College (NY)
This article analyzes the interrelationship among resource consumption, sociospatial justice, and what is popularly known as global warming by interrogating the ecological footprint of professional geographers, especially in terms of ...
- Posted May 9, 2016
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An integrated approach to achieving campus sustainability: assessment of the current campus environmental management practices
- King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals
Universities can nowadays be regarded as ‘small cities’ due to their large size, population, and the various complex activities taking place in campuses, which have some serious direct and indirect ...
- Posted May 9, 2016
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The Carbon Footprint of Conference Papers
The action required to stem the environmental and social implications of climate change depends crucially on how humankind shapes technology, economy, lifestyle and policy. With transport CO2 emissions accounting for ...
- Posted May 9, 2016
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Sustainable Science? Reducing the Carbon Impact of Scientific Mega-Meetings
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of North Texas (TX)
Scientists across the globe recognize the importance of reducing carbon emissions to combat climate change. At the same time, we have increased our carbon footprint through air travel to the ...
- Posted May 9, 2016
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Responsible academia: optimizing conference locations to minimize greenhouse gas emissions
- Florida International University (FL)
The greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions attributable to many scientists, including ecologists and conservation biologists, are often much greater than those attributable to average non-scientists (Fox et al. 2009, Synolakis and ...
- Posted May 9, 2016
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