Search Results
NC State University Facilities, Academic Affairs Collaborate For Summer Energy Savings
- North Carolina State University (NC)
A hot, humid North Carolina summer isn’t when you might expect NC State University to save nearly $900 a day in avoided energy costs. But thanks to a new ...
- Posted May 26, 2016
- Case Studies
- View more
Field Guide to Teaching Sustainability
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Penn State’s Field Guide to Teaching Sustainability is for sustainability education what the Peterson guides are for birds, trees, or wildflowers. We have designed it to help our faculty ...
- Posted May 24, 2016
- Tools
- View more
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
- Publications
- View more
Higher Education for Sustainable Development
- University of Otago (Otago)
This book asks how higher education should approach the task of educating for sustainability and then sets to answering it. It provides a guide for those who advocate for sustainability ...
- Posted April 14, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Center for Energy Research/Education/Service
- Ball State University (IN)
The Center for Energy Research/Education/Service (CERES) at Ball State University, is an interdisciplinary academic support unit focused on issues related to energy and resource use, alternatives and conservation ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
- Research Centers & Institutes
- View more
Introductory economics textbooks: what do they teach about sustainability?
In response to accelerating ecological deterioration, many universities have made commitments to integrate sustainability across the curriculum and to ensure they graduate ecologically responsible citizens. This study involves a content ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Academic Freedom in the 21st-Century College and University: Academic Freedom for All Faculty and Instructional Staff
This statement by the American Federation of Teachers responds to ongoing political attacks on higher education faculty and staff as well as the increasing reliance on contingent faculty who have ...
- Posted March 12, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Fairness & Equity: Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Part-Time/Adjunct Faculty
American Federation of Teachers' quality standards for the employment of part-time/adjunct faculty in colleges and universities. The report outlines a coordinated program to improve the financial and professional circumstances ...
- Posted March 12, 2016
- Publications
- View more
There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts
Students are paying higher tuition than ever. Why can’t more of that revenue go to the people teaching them?
- Posted March 12, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Con Job: Stories of Adjunct & Contingent Labor
- The College of Saint Rose (NY)
- Posted March 12, 2016
- Videos & Webinars
- View more
Indispensable But Invisible: A Report on the Working Climate of Non-Tenure Track Faculty at George Mason University
- George Mason University (VA)
According to institutional data, during the 2012-2013 academic year, adjunct and other
contingent faculty made up 71 percent of the total faculty at George Mason University. Like
contingent faculty at ...
- Posted March 11, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education
In the last twenty years, higher education in the United States has been eroded by massive reliance on temporary academic labor—professors without tenure or the prospect of tenure, paid ...
- Posted March 11, 2016
- Publications
- View more
A Guide to Climate Resiliency & The Community College
- American Association of Community Colleges (DC)
Too many municipalities are crafting climate adaption and resiliency plans without community colleges as partners. Yet, community colleges are positioned to be powerful partners in implementing a holistic local response ...
- Posted March 3, 2016
- Publications
- View more
The University’s Role in the Dissemination of Research and Scholarship — A Call to Action
- Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities (APLU) (DC)
The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), the Association of American Universities (AAU), the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI), and the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC), issued ...
- Posted March 2, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP)
- University of Southampton
The Registry of Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies (ROARMAP) is a searchable international registry charting the growth of open access mandates and policies adopted by universities, research institutions and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Tools
- View more
The Sustainability Literacy Test (Sulitest)
- United Nations Environment Programme
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
The Sulitest is a tool for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) to assess and verify the sustainability literacy of their students when they graduate. It assesses the level knowledge in economic ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Tools
- View more
Institutionalizing Sustainability Bringing Academics & Operations
- Lane Community College (OR)
At Lane Community College, Sustainability is one of six Strategic Directions. Lane has embarked on a process to develop policies and procedures that support and encourage students and staff to ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Creative Strategies at the Nexus of Academics & Operations
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
- Purdue University (IN)
In order for campuses to achieve climate neutrality and reach a future state of sustainability and resiliency, more attention needs to be paid to existing facilities and infrastructure. However, this ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Five Years of an Integrated Approach to Campus Sustainability: Linking Academics, Operations and Student Life
- Dalhousie University (NS)
At the 2008 AASHE Conference, [X] University presented two ambitious campus sustainability initiatives, one academic and one operational, and an overarching sustainability framework. The university has since put these initiatives ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Empowering Ecoliteracy: A Transformative Art & Design Education Bridges Academics, Operations, and Facilities
- The New School (NY)
Parsons The New School for Design in New York City has approached sustainability holistically to engage students - shaping how they work, study, and participate in the material world - while also ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Sustainability On a Rooftop: Dining, Operations and Academics Unite
- Bowling Green State University (OH)
The Green Roof at the newest campus dining center was collaborative in design/construction and continues to be a living example of successful campus partnerships in sustainability. The green roof ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Bridging Operations and Academics: Princeton University Sustainability Working Group Initiatives and Collaborations
- Princeton University (NJ)
Are sustainability endeavors with inclusive and comprehensive scope - bridging across operations, administration, academics and student life - more effective at accelerating culture change than those that are focused on single facets ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Partnerships in Food Waste Reduction at Michigan State University- Academics and Operations
- Michigan State University (MI)
At Michigan State University, Being Green is what we do. The total campus population includes over 45,000 students, with approximately 17,000 living on campus with the Division of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Operations and Academics Collaboration for Sustainability on Campus
- British Columbia Institute of Technology (BC)
The British Columbia Institute of Technology (BCIT) is Canada's premier polytechnic institution. It operates out of five campuses in western Canada, and it is oriented towards meeting the needs ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Academics in Action: Bridging the Gap Between the Classroom and the Community
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
In his 1949 polemic, "The Land Ethic," Aldo Leopold notes that the conventional answer to the question of how to develop an environmental conscience/consciousness is "more education" however, he ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
- Conference Presentations
- View more
Environmental Literacy and Sustainability as Core Requirements: Success Stories and Models
- Oakland Community College (MI)
At a number of colleges and universities, the core General Education requirements for all degrees include an in depth exposure to environmental literacy. Many colleges are also including a degree ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
- Publications
- View more
Shifting from Saying to Doing: Evaluation of an Environmental Course Designed to Create Environmental Change Agents
- Tufts University (MA)
This study evaluated a semester-long environmental course designed to enable students to become environmental change agents. Sixteen undergraduate students self-selected into the program course, which integrated social science-focused materials with ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
- Publications
- View more