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Graduate Certificate in Education, Equity, & Society
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
The EES graduate certificate program is intended for students at the College of Education and other academic units at the University of Washington to receive additional training that prepares certificate ...
- Posted June 13, 2022
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Integrated Studies BA
- Florida Gulf Coast University (FL)
The B.A. in Integrated Studies combines courses across programs in order to produce deep learning and a better understanding of the interrelationships between academic subjects. Sustainability and civic engagement ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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CSU Faculty Learning Community in Teaching Climate Change and Resilience
- California State University, Chico (CA)
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- California State University, Monterey Bay (CA)
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
- California State University, Stanislaus (CA)
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
- Strategic Energy Innovations (CA)
In the Spring of 2022, 62 faculty from six different California State University campuses representing over 30 disciplines participated in the CSU Faculty Learning Community in Teaching Climate Change and ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Establishing and sustaining Indiana’s first higher education chapter of Citizens’ Climate Lobby at Purdue University
- Purdue University (IN)
- Citizens' Climate Lobby (CA)
In an effort to learn how to meaningfully engage with my community on the issue of climate change, I joined Citizens’ Climate Lobby, a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization which advances ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Pedagogies for peacebuilding in higher education: How and why should higher education institutions get involved in teaching for peace?
- Universidad de los Andes
- University of Sussex (Sussex)
- University of Rwanda
- Univerzitet u Sarajevu
This article makes the case for why higher education institutions should take the teaching of peacebuilding seriously. It is co-authored by a team from four countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Rwanda ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Self-construal types and organizational citizenship behavior for the environment of employees in a university
- Adekunle Ajasin University
In researching into workplace pro-environmental behaviors, there is sparse evidence on self-construals with dimensions of organizational citizenship behavior for the environment (OCBE), particularly among university employees. To fill this gap ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Climate change concern among youth: Examining the role of civics and institutional trust across 22 countries
- Columbia University (NY)
Although scholars have long documented perceptions of climate change and the public’s evolving response to the perceived risk it poses, only more recently have these analyses begun to examine ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Community Engagement through Earth Day Celebrations
- University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
How can we better engage with our communities around sustainability? How can we create connections with and between the various municipal, business, and non-profit entities in our communities? How can ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2022
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Mobilizing to VOTE: Climate 2020
- Our Climate (OR)
Our Climate's workshop will highlight our voter registration and Get Out The Vote campaign. Young people are the largest voting bloc in this country, we can have a tremendous ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Beyond Campus Boundaries: Transferring your Skills to Support Climate Action in Local Government
- Hampshire College (MA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA)
The climate crisis and lack of national-level action has left many of us feeling like we need to do more - both on campus and beyond. As students, staff, and faculty ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Applied Sustainability: Leadership Lessons From the Field
- Ohio University (OH)
- University of Oregon (OR)
- Local Government Commission (CA)
In order to empower leaders and build momentum for the sustainability movement, we need to embrace the full leadership pathway before, during and after the higher education experience. While much ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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A Communiversity Resiliency Mobilization
- Indiana University South Bend (IN)
- University of Notre Dame (IN)
In response to partisan and divisive politics and relationships in our nation and our communities, the University of Notre Dame, in partnership with Indiana University South Bend and the city ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Managing from the Side: a Sustainability Officer's Role Institutionalizing Campus Civic Engagement
- Emory University (GA)
As the contentious 2018 mid-term elections approached, our sustainability office looked across the campus landscape for a coordinated, unified entity raising up voter registration and education, improving voter access, and ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Who Is Community Engagement For?: The Endless Loop of Democratic Transparency
- Lafayette College (PA)
This article approaches college and university community engagement as a publicity practice responding to complex pressures in the U.S. higher education field. Democracy initiatives in American academia encompass a ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Climate change advocacy: exploring links between student empowerment and civic engagement
- Illinois State University (IL)
- Northern State University (SD)
This study identified the attitudes and behaviors of college students regarding their advocacy for climate change adaptation and mitigation. Specifically, perceptions of climate change were assessed and advocacy activities were ...
- Posted April 23, 2021
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Warren Wilson College Civic Identity Framework
- Warren Wilson College (NC)
Civic Identity serves as the overarching educational framework at Warren Wilson College, and it prioritizes civic responsibility and sustainability as the core ethos for each graduate. There are explicit sustainability ...
- Posted Oct. 5, 2020
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Community Sustainability (CSUS) PhD
- Michigan State University (MI)
The CSUS graduate program is designed for students interested in issues of community sustainability in either a domestic or international context. Broadly speaking, faculty, academic staff, and graduate students working ...
- Posted Sept. 11, 2020
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Community Sustainability (CSUS) MS
- Michigan State University (MI)
The CSUS graduate program is designed for students interested in issues of community sustainability in either a domestic or international context. Broadly speaking, faculty, academic staff, and graduate students working ...
- Posted Sept. 11, 2020
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Power Dialog Webinar Discussion Templates - Civic Engagement
- Bard College (NY)
Bard College's Solve Climate By 2030 Power Dialog Webinar offers discussion templates for teachers. This template is for civic engagement.
- Posted June 12, 2020
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How to Solve Climate By 2030
- Bard College (NY)
Eban Goodstein, Director of the Center for Environmental Policy at Bard College, discusses how to solve climate change by 2030.
- Posted June 12, 2020
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Solve Climate by 2030: Solar Dominance + Civic Action
- Bard College (NY)
A nationwide series of campus and community Power Dialogs will educate students about Power as clean energy, but also about Power as engaged citizen action. Dialogs will spotlight how transforming ...
- Posted May 28, 2020
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University Student Sustainability Conference
- Universidad de Chile (Region Metropolitana)
The CEUS Congress (for its acronym in Spanish) is a space for convergence of young leaders from all over the country, where discussions are held on the different topics of ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Diversifying the U.S. Climate Movement
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
People of color are poised to reach 50% of the United States population by 2046, yet they continue to be underrepresented in environmental organizations. This report summarizes the barriers for ...
- Posted May 17, 2019
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Developing the Student Anchor Engagement Framework
- Drexel University (PA)
Modern urban and metropolitan universities are increasingly obliged to recognize their role as anchor institutions. These same institutions of higher education (IHEs) also have a responsibility to educate students to ...
- Posted April 30, 2019
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Higher Education for Professional and Civic Values: A Critical Review and Analysis
- University of Otago (Otago)
Education for sustainable development (ESD) is generally thought to involve some degree of education for particular professional and civic values, attitudes and behaviours (leading to, as examples, being environmentally, socially ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Civic and Community Engagement Minor
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
The minor in Civic and Community Engagement is an interdisciplinary program that provides students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to engage as citizens and active community members in ...
- Posted Jan. 14, 2019
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The University, Neighborhood Revitalization, and Civic Engagement: Toward Civic Engagement 3.0
- SUNY Buffalo State (NY)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
This essay analyzes and syntheses key theories and concepts on neighborhood change from the literature on anchor institutions, university engagement, gentrification, neighborhood effects, Cold War, Black liberation studies, urban political ...
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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The challenge of coordinated civic climate change education
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- St. Mary's College of Maryland (MD)
- University at Albany (NY)
- Dickinson College (PA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- James Madison University (VA)
- University of Richmond (VA)
- Bard College (NY)
Many sustainability educators want to more effectively engage their students with climate policy. They also seek to support students’ civic and change agent skills and dispositions to take on critical ...
- Posted Dec. 11, 2018
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All We Need is Political Will: Empowering Students on Civic Engagement on Climate Change
- Juniata College (PA)
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- Citizens' Climate Lobby (CA)
At this critical time in our nation's history, the need to transition to a clean energy economy and a just and equitable society is more urgent than ever. Young ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Sustainability Best Practices to Contain the Uncontainable: Lessons Learned From UVA & August 11/12
- University of Virginia (VA)
UVA's responses to the white supremacist rallies at UVA and Charlottesville during the summer of 2017 can serve as an example to other institutions as white supremacy and violence ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Campus Sustainability Month 2018: Nonpartisan Engagement and the November Elections
- National Association of Independent Colleges & Universities (DC)
- AASHE (MA)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
The theme for this year’s Campus Sustainability Month is Nonpartisan Engagement and the November Elections. Please join AASHE and the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) as we explore ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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Election Imperatives: Ten Recommendations to Increase College Student Voting and Improve Political Learning and Engagement in Democracy
- Tufts University (MA)
Drawing from our research on college student voting and the campus climates of highly politically engaged institutions, this report offers ten recommendations to increase student voting and to improve campus ...
- Posted Aug. 29, 2018
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Place-Based Education: Connecting Classrooms and Communities
The most comprehensive review of place-based education – its pedagogy and its practice – yet to appear, by the author of the highly influential book Beyond Ecophobia. Through academic research, practical examples ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Training in Environmental Policy Advocacy During Challenging Times
- DePauw University (IN)
- AASHE (MA)
Many positive environmental policy gains are under threat across the country. Students who are motivated to take action are more important than ever. Over the last decade, DePauw University has ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Engaging Across Boundaries: The Power of Civic Engagement in Sustainability
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
- Campus Compact (MA)
Speakers will offer an introduction to the broader concept of civic engagement and will share experiences, best practices, models and frameworks:
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in setting up a a multiple semester student engagement ...
- Posted March 27, 2018
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Sustainability and Civic Engagement: A Communications Engagement and Education Plan
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
Across the United States primarily on a town or city basis, the increasing public awareness and understanding of the detrimental impact of human activity on the environment is fostering the ...
- Posted March 22, 2018
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Universities and Conflict The Role of Higher Education in Peacebuilding and Resistance
This book uses a series of case studies to examine the roles played by universities during situations of conflict, peacebuilding and resistance.
While a body of work dealing with the ...
- Posted March 9, 2018
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Public-Public Partnerships for a New Paradigm in the Civic Role of the University
- California State University, Chico (CA)
Recognizing the need to proactively prepare engaged citizens for the dynamic socioeconomic and environmental conditions of the 21st century, the Institute for Sustainable Development at California State University (CSU), Chico ...
- Posted March 5, 2018
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George Washington University Fostering Federal Sustainability
- George Washington University (DC)
Sustainability is one of the nine core values of George Washington University (GW). As such, the Sustainability Collaborative was formed in 2014 to coordinate the ongoing research, academics, operations, and ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Protest Meets Policy Change: Practical, Local Politics As Key to Building Community Solidarity and Sustainability
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- Elected Officials to Protect America (SC)
This dynamic workshop challenges participants to engage in politics in ways that build community solidarity and sustainability. In times of great division at the national level, practical projects and local ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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From the Iowa Caucus to the Iowa State House: Strategies for Sustained Civic Engagement
- Central College (IA)
In 2015-16, leading up to the Iowa caucus and presidential election, Central College focused sustainability education efforts strongly on civic engagement, hosting a mock caucus, debate watch parties, guest speakers ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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University-Local Government Collaborations on Sustainability
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
Climate change can be effectively addressed at a local, rather than national, scale. Cities and universities represent the centers of commerce and culture, as well as the world's population ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Creating political will for climate action: the role of higher education
- Bard College (NY)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- Citizens' Climate Lobby (CA)
Political engagement in America is at an all time high; how do we channel that energy to create meaningful change? How can higher education avoid being partisan while building the ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Global Citizenship Education: Preparing learners for the challenges of the 21st century
- UNESCO
This publication explores the concept of Global Citizenship Education (GCE), which it argues has a critical role to play in equipping learners with competencies to deal with the dynamic and ...
- Posted Sept. 28, 2017
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Not Business as Usual: Fostering Civic Engagement on Climate Change
- AASHE (MA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
- Citizens' Climate Lobby (CA)
Scientists are in consensus that the world needs to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, and this cannot be accomplished by ...
- Posted July 13, 2017
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Earthday at Universidad de Monterrey
- Universidad de Monterrey
- Posted May 26, 2017
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Southern Oregon University Earth Week
- Southern Oregon University (OR)
- Posted April 28, 2017
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Not Business as Usual: Fostering Civic Engagement on Climate Change
- The University of Texas at Dallas (TX)
Attendees will engage in a discussion of what it means to them to civically engage through building consensus, seeking common ground, and moving towards climate solutions in a non-partisan way ...
- Posted April 26, 2017
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Higher Education in the World: Towards a Socially Responsible University: Balancing the Global with the Local
The 6th Higher Education in the World Report deals with the dual responsibilities of universities at local and global scale, exploring the potential conflict, or intrinsic difficulties, in addressing both ...
- Posted March 14, 2017
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Empowerment for sustainability in higher education through the EYE learning tool
- Wageningen University
Purpose - While empowerment for sustainability is considered a major objective within sustainability-oriented educational programs and policies, little is known about the actual process of empowering students for sustainability through higher ...
- Posted Feb. 13, 2017
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