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Campus as Classroom: Learning for Sustainability Leadership

  • Smith College (MA)

This session introduces an integrative pedagogy for learning about sustainability, where 1) the campus functions as a learning space; 2) learning is organized around authentic problems, whether emerging from an ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Climate Action Implementation: Governance Approaches for Climate Implementation

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
  • University of California, Office of the President (CA)

Colleges and universities across the globe have set very ambitious targets for climate action ranging from steep mitigation goals of zero carbon, to ensuring a resilient campus and preparing for ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Sustainability Leadership (MBA)

  • Prescott College (AZ)

Graduates lead the way in integrating environmental, social, and governance actions into entrepreneurial ventures, sustainable businesses, nonprofits, and government.

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Sustainability Leadership (Minor)

  • University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)

The minor provides an opportunity for students in any academic major to develop key competencies that will be the foundation for their growth as sustainability leaders in their civic and ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Leadership for Sustainable Communities (BA)

  • Saint Joseph's College - ME (ME)

Students learn to solve real-world problems, and prepare for a lifetime of community leadership. The program goes far beyond traditional academic barriers to dig into real-world challenges — preparing students to ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Sustainability Leadership (Certificate)

  • University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)

The program is designed to give students a strong foundational understanding of the three E’s of sustainability: economy, environment, and equity (also known as the Triple Bottom Line). The ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Justice, Community & Leadership (BA)

  • Saint Mary's College of California (CA)

This rigorous program of interdisciplinary study is designed for students passionate about addressing interconnected systems of injustice and oppression. Guided by our renowned, approachable faculty, you’ll gain a comprehensive ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Leadership - Social Justice (MA)

  • Saint Mary's College of California (CA)

The M.A. in Leadership from Saint Mary's is grounded on the values of inclusion, collaboration and service to the larger community that is expected by the citizenry and ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Environment & Sustainability - Sustainable Planning & Leadership (Bachelor)

  • Catawba College (NC)

The Sustainable Planning and Leadership concentration focuses on community and workplace leadership, driving interdisciplinary learning and application of socio-environmental issues through required coursework like Sustainable Planning and Design and an ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Wizipan Leadership & Sustainability (Certificate)

  • South Dakota State University (SD)

The academic experience is focused on the interrelatedness of Care of Self, Care of Community, Care of Environment, and Care of Culture. During the study abroad-structured semester offered at Crazy ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Young African Leaders find inspiration, confidence at Cornell

  • Cornell University (NY)

The Cornell Einaudi Center and Jeb E. Brooks School of Public Policy welcomed 25 of Africa's most promising emerging public management leaders to campus this summer for a six-week ...


The intellectual structure of the literature on sustainability leadership in higher education: an author co-citation analysis

  • Mahidol University (Bangkok)

This review aims to identify the intellectual structure or key theoretical themes that comprise the emerging field of sustainability leadership in higher education. The Scopus index was used to identify ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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A Cross-Cultural Genre Analysis of Leadership Statements in Italian and American University Sustainability Reports

  • Beijing Foreign Studies University

Background: Sustainability is becoming an increasingly important issue in higher education (HE). Leadership statements in university sustainability reports (LSUSR) represent a unique genre for university leaders to communicate sustainability. This ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Systems thinking for systems leadership: promoting competency development for graduate students in sustainability studies

  • Virginia Tech (VA)

Purpose: This paper aims to offer a case study for teaching specific systems thinking competencies that promote leadership for systems change. It uses leadership as a novel way to identify ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Research on sustainability leadership in higher education: a scoping review

  • Mahidol University (Bangkok)

Purpose: Despite the centrality of leadership to the successful transformation of universities toward sustainability, the literature on the role and practices of sustainability leadership in higher education remains poorly developed ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Leadership, support and organisation for academics’ participation in engineering education change for sustainable development

  • KTH Royal Institute of Technology

This work spotlights the experiences from ten years of implementing sustainable development in all educational programs at a technical university. With a focus on the critical issue of involving more ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Advancing sustainability leadership by shifting relational ‘agreement structures’: a transformational higher education change program

  • Harvard University (MA)
  • Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
  • Institute for Strategic Clarity (MA)

Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) requires leaders to navigate different fields and work across public, private, and plural sectors. Higher education (HE) is positioned uniquely to bring disciplines together ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Which leadership processes encourage sustainable transitions within universities?

  • Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden)

Purpose: The implementation of sustainability-related policies at universities has been marked by a greater sense of urgency in recent years. Despite this emerging trend, it is still unclear which leadership ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Empowering Future Leaders to Advocate Sustainable Action: A comparative analysis between two university programmes focusing on leadership and sustainability in Sweden and Germany

  • Malmö University

Sustainability must be integrated into our everyday world. To achieve that, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were established. Some scholars agree that the SDGs are not enough. So, a new strategy ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Campus Sustainability and COVID-19: Perspectives of Challenges and Opportunities from Sustainability Leaders

  • The Ohio State University (OH)

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted much of society and universities are no exception. One area of concern is the disruption to campus sustainability. Previously, campus sustainability already faced a variety ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Preparing Business Students to be Sustainable Business Leaders in the 21st Century

  • University of Michigan (MI)

The necessity and importance of sustainability has been discussed increasingly often and urgently as material business considerations, notably by Larry Fink, the CEO of Blackrock (Fink 2021a). Further, research over ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Narcissism as a global barrier to education for sustainable development

  • Troy University (AL)
  • Berjaya University College

Narcissism, extreme self-interest, refers to a set of personality characteristics including arrogance, self-centeredness, need for admiration, sense of entitlement, grandiosity, lack of empathy, and interpersonal exploitation, which can range from ...

  • Posted June 15, 2023
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Duke University Climate Commitment

  • Duke University (NC)

As Duke University enters its second century, President Vincent Price has directed the University to marshal its collective resources and capabilities to address the climate crisis. Stemming from President Price ...


Innovative Approaches to Teaching Sustainability

  • Stanford University (CA)

This session presents learnings from the design and teaching “Leading Change for Sustainability,” a Stanford University course that is part of the Sustainability Science and Practice Master’s Program. It ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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Just Sustainable Leadership: Integrating Stakeholders

  • Arizona State University (AZ)

Wicked environmental dilemmas (e.g. climate change) are difficult to explain, plainly define, have no one solution, and are often the result of other indefinable problems that require integrative collaborative ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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Green Bamboo Ceiling - The State of APIs in Higher Education and Sustainability

  • Mount Holyoke College (MA)
  • University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
  • Western Washington University (WA)

In sustainability there is a green ceiling that is a challenge to get people of diversity into leadership roles. In addition, if you are Asian Pacific Islander (API), you have ...

  • Posted May 17, 2023
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Bending Towards Justice: Evolving Sustainability Education at Prescott College

  • Prescott College (AZ)
  • AASHE (PA)

The PhD in Sustainability Education at Prescott College, the first of its kind in North America, attracts a transdisciplinary cadre of students/scholars/activists committed to social and environmental justice ...

  • Posted March 30, 2023
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Integrating Sustainability Plans and Capital Campaigns

  • Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
  • AASHE (PA)

Taking sustainability to the next level, for many higher education institutions, requires a strategic, long-range, and comprehensive sustainability plan. The process by which you develop content, engage the campus community ...

  • Posted March 1, 2023
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Leadership for Social Justice Concentration

  • University of St. Thomas (MN)

The Leadership for Social Justice concentration helps students anticipate and begin preparing for the full arc of a career in which successful community organizing requires them to institutionalize the changes ...

  • Posted June 10, 2022
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The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader

  • Salisbury University (MD)
  • University of British Columbia Okanagan (BC)
  • Northeastern University (MA)
  • McGill University (QC)
  • Colorado State University (CO)
  • Stanford University (CA)
  • University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
  • TREE Foundation (FL)
  • National Geographic Society (DC)
  • Iowa State University (IA)
  • Northern Arizona University (AZ)

Solutions to our most pressing environmental problems demand the development and application of leadership skills that are not typically fostered in traditional academic programs: skills that advance new transdisciplinary approaches ...


Embracing higher education leadership in sustainability: A systematic review

  • Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Education has long been praised for its economic benefits, which stem from the developed technical skills and improved health conditions it promotes. Nonetheless, improving the quality of education, including sustainability ...


Developing a Framework for Understanding the Personal Motivations of Sustainability Leaders

  • University of Surrey
  • Ateneo de Manila University

This study explores the initial and sustaining motivations that drive leaders to pursue sustainability as a profession or vocation. Exploratory interviews were conducted with 16 sustainability leaders in the Philippines ...


Learning for the Future: Exploring Effective Characteristics of Sustainability Leadership Programs in Higher Education

  • Thompson Rivers University (BC)

In response to global environmental, economic, and social issues, universities and colleges have begun to create and expand leadership courses and programs that aspire to foster sustainability change agents. This ...


A Core Curriculum for Sustainability Leadership

  • Stanford University (CA)

In response to the scale, complexity, and urgency of the sustainability challenges societies face, there has been both rapid growth in the broad field of sustainability science and technology, as ...

  • Posted April 28, 2022
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Improving Holistic Sustainability through Complexity Leadership

  • Western University (ON)

This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) outlines a planned change to improve decision-making spaces and processes-related sustainability. The OIP details a problem of practice examining how to incorporate holistic sustainability into ...

  • Posted March 10, 2022
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Leadership & Sustainability in Action: A Practitioner's Case for Integrated Teaching

  • Florida State University (FL)
  • Harvard University (MA)

At colleges and universities all over the United States, instructors of leadership courses argue that they teach students about equitable, healthy leadership and prepare the next generation of leaders to ...

  • Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Summarizing Your STARS Report for Senior Leadership

  • Boston University (MA)
  • AASHE (PA)

Building off of the “Conversations on STARS as a Strategic Tool for Advancing Sustainability” 2020 GCSHE presentation, this webinar will dive into the creation of the STARS Report Summary (presented ...

  • Posted Dec. 9, 2021
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Bold Leadership and the Refugee Crisis

  • Colorado State University (CO)
  • Minnesota State University Moorhead (MN)

Bold leaders are needed to address the current global refugee crisis. Through our interactive presentation we will provide attendees the information they need to become those leaders. We will walk ...

  • 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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Developing Artful Leadership to Foster Sustainability at UW Oshkosh and Beyond

  • University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)

This project titled Developing Artful Leadership to Foster Sustainability at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (UW Oshkosh) and Beyond was a research project that utilized the fluidity of interdisciplinary application of ...

  • Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Jungle Navigation: Leadership Engagement Without Process or Procedure

  • University of Delaware (DE)

One of the most common challenges for Sustainability Professionals is opening lines of communication and engagement with campus leadership in institutions where such processes and procedures do not exist. How ...

  • Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Staying Green While Staying Woke: Creating Inclusive Sustainability Communities in Higher Education

  • University of California, Los Angeles (CA)

Equity is one of the pillars of sustainability. While there is more attention to climate and environmental justice in our field today, much of the work in sustainability spaces tends ...

  • Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education

  • Western Sydney University (NSW)
  • Australian National University

Higher Education around the world is at a cross-road as a wide range of change forces bear down upon it. These include a complex, interlocked and rapidly unfolding set of ...


Contemplative Practices in Higher Education for Sustainable Development: An exploration of their role for moving society towards sustainability

  • Blekinge Institute of Technology

In order for future sustainability leaders to stand a chance at tackling the sustainability challenge, they need to be skilled and capable enough to cope with them. Higher education for ...


Educational contexts and designs for cultivating leaders capable of addressing the wicked issues of sustainability transitions.

  • Blekinge Institute of Technology

The ongoing sustainability crisis offer numerous, multifaced societal challenges as a result of the ongoing degradation of socio-ecological systems by human activity causing massive ecological damage and human suffering. Overcoming ...


Conference spaces as emotional sites for becoming campus sustainability leaders

  • University of Vermont (VT)

This paper applies a feminist political ecology approach to ask: How do sustainability in higher education (SHE) conference events co-produce the subjectivities and expertise of campus sustainability professionals (CSPs) emotionally ...


A Resource-Efficient Modular Course Design for Co-Teaching Integrated Sustainability in Higher Education: Developing the Next Generation of Entrepreneurial Leaders

  • Babson College (MA)

Society faces mounting pressures related to economic growth, social injustice, and environmental degradation. Building upon scholarly consensus regarding the necessity of multidisciplinary approaches to address such complex problems, the entrepreneurship ...

  • Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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The Power Game: Developing Influence and Negotiation Skills for Sustainable Development

  • Virginia Tech (VA)

This paper describes the outcomes of a game designed to teach advanced leadership skills, specifically influence and negotiation strategies, to current and aspiring sustainability professionals at Virginia Tech’s Center ...

  • Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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The Use of Reflective Pedagogies in Sustainability Leadership Education—A Case Study

  • Blekinge Institute of Technology

This study aims to examine the use of reflective pedagogies in sustainability leadership education by investigating two specific pedagogical tools—the Portfolio and Pod—employed by the Master’s in ...


Teaching Climate Leadership: Promoting Integrative Learning in Courses on Strong Sustainability

  • Northeastern University (MA)

This article describes how the theory of integrative learning frames student learning in a course on climate leadership. The course is grounded in the theory of strong sustainability, which is ...