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Strategic Planning to Advance Equity on Campus: A Case Study at Portland State University
- Portland State University (OR)
Propelled by many factors, including a newly appointed Board of Trustees responsible for governance of our university, resource shortages, and enrollment swings, Portland State University embarked on a strategic planning …
- Posted May 8, 2018
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The Concept of Sustainability in the Romanian Top Universities’ Strategic Plans
- Universitatea Politehnica Timisoara
The concept of sustainability has been given more and more attention lately as the effects of climate change drastically impact society and threaten the wellbeing of future generations. In this …
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Corporate Social Responsibility through SDGs: Preliminary Results from a Pilot Study in Italian Universities
- Università del Salento
Background: In the broad scientific debate on the integration of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in the strategic planning of universities and on the use of monitoring the results of the …
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Organizational networks as catalysts for strategic sustainable development
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
In an increasingly connected and interdependent world, the global sustainability challenge needs to be addressed by organizational networks from a whole-systems perspective. This study explores organizations through the lens of …
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Green Humility: How Awareness of Past Missteps Improves Sustainability Planning
- Maryville College (TN)
Campus sustainability plans do not emerge overnight, and rarely are they crafted easily from whole cloth. Instead, schools hailed for efforts leading to a successful record of environmentalism can find …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Strategic Planning for Sustainability and Energy Conservation at a University
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Central Office (NJ)
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, has been recognized by the EPA as the top institution in Higher Education, for reducing Green House Gases under their MOU Program. This …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Planning 2.0: Strategic Sustainability Planning to Achieve Ambitious Resource Conservation Targets
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
The University of British Columbia (UBC) is using the campus as a living lab to develop long-range resource conservation action plans that are ambitious, yet have tangible, achievable targets and …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Strategic Communication Model for Sustainable Initiatives in Higher Education Institutions
- MacEwan University (AB)
Communicating sustainable initiatives in higher education institutions presents a challenge, given that few to no universities possess or maintain a strategic communication plan that addresses the need to share this …
- Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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Bucknell 10-Years Sustainability Plan
- Bucknell University (PA)
January 18th 2023, President John Bravman formally announced the release of the 10-year Sustainability Plan for Bucknell University. According to President Brvaman,
"Caring for the environment and reducing waste remains …
- Posted Feb. 2, 2023
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Strategic Framework for Sustainability
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
The Strategic Framework for Sustainability provides a collective focus on activities in and for sustainability across the campus and in so doing encapsulates commitments across four areas:
- Goal 1: A …
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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Charting the Course for Sustainability at a New Campus: Utilizing Strategic Planning
- University of New Haven (CT)
Starting a new job is difficult. As a sustainability professional, how many times have you been asked if you are an engineer? An environmentalist? Or do you just find it …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Utilizing Strategic Planning and Stakeholder Engagement Techniques to Maximize Sustainability
- University of New Haven (CT)
Starting a new job is difficult. As a sustainability professional, how many times have you been asked if you are an engineer? An environmentalist? Or do you just find it …
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Conversations on STARS as a Strategic Tool for Advancing Sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Boston University (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
- GreenerU (MA)
This panel will dive into the different opportunities that exist to use AASHE's STARS as a tool to advance sustainability within an institution. Each panelist will dive into their work …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Master Planning: Aligning Strategy with Sustainability
- Delta College (MI)
For institutions who may be hesitant about adopting benchmarking programs that have defined standards and requirements, this presentation will illustrate how voluntary reporting mechanisms can be a toolkit for systematically …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Setting Stretch Goals: Sustainability As the Organizing Principle For a Strategic Plan
- Green Mountain College (VT)
Higher education is under siege. As the public demands better outcomes for the price of education, the story of advancing sustainability provides a promising response. Green Mountain College (GMC) has …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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An empirical assessment of administration and planning activity and their impact on the realization of sustainability-related initiatives and programs in higher education
- Bucknell University (PA)
Administrators in higher-education settings routinely create planning documents that help steer the organization in mission-centric ways. In the area of sustainability planning, strategic plans, sustainability plans and climate action plans …
- Posted Jan. 12, 2021
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Coming Together to Address the World's Greatest Challenges
- University of Minnesota System Office (MN)
At the University of Minnesota, sustainability is a priority highlighted by our recent Systemwide Strategic Plan. Learn how our campuses work together to build a fully sustainable future.
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Campus Sustainability Plan
- California State University, Monterey Bay (CA)
This plan includes 12 topic areas with Environmental Justice and Inclusion being integrated throughout the plan. The goals and recommendation in each topic area consider existing campus guiding documents and …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Zero Waste Master Plan
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
In September 2015, Vanderbilt embarked on a strategic planning process FutureVU to create a holistic and sustainable long-term vision for the physical development of the campus over 20 to 30 …
- Posted Dec. 16, 2022
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Sustainability planning within broader university planning - collaboration around collective goals
- Vancouver Island University (BC)
Vancouver Island University (VIU) is located on Canada's West Coast and includes campuses in four communities as well as other research and teaching sites. Previously called Malaspina University-College, the BC …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Opportunity in Disruption: Strategic Sustainability Planning During and Post COVID-19
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- Cumming (CA)
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to be disruptive and challenging for institutions of higher education, businesses, and community organizations. Entities with strategic sustainability plans now face operational and budgetary obstacles to …
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Strategic Energy & Utility Strategies
- Saint Louis University (MO)
Saint Louis University (SLU) is motivated to work towards sustainable energy solutions and committed to the reduction of energy consumption. The Division of Facilities Services has recognized this need and …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Zero Waste Visioning – Campus Wide Solutions to Zero Waste
- California State Polytechnic University, Pomona (CA)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
- Williams College (MA)
- AASHE (MA)
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
In this webinar we will hear from Sustainability Staff at 3 Universities who recently published Strategic Visions for Achieving Zero Waste on their campuses.
Developing a Strategic Vision is a …
- Posted May 1, 2023
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An Assets-based Approach for Sustainability Strategic Planning and Engagement
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
We will conduct a workshop to introduce an innovative approach to sustainability strategic thinking and planning. This process was used at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) to broadly …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Strategic Planning 3.0: Rebuilding trust in the process
- Santa Clara University (CA)
- Trust (MA)
Santa Clara University’s Center for Sustainability had an opportunity. They were ready to update their sustainability plan, but this time - they wanted to do it differently. They wanted a …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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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, …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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The UBC Climate Studies and Action Certificate as a Response to the Climate Emergency Declaration
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
This certificate is a response to the climate emergency 1. Creating justice centered, action oriented, accessible, interdisciplinary and hopeful climate education opportunities was one of six strategic priorities in the …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Climate Action Plan
- University at Buffalo (NY)
This plan provides an outline of strategic actions for UB to achieve climate neutrality by 2030.
- Posted Oct. 21, 2022
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Atlas: The Road to a Zero Waste Campus
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
The Atlas is an assessment framework to create Zero Waste strategic plans for universities and colleges. We start off by utilizing our extensive Campus Programs Checklist to assess infrastructure, policies, …
- Posted Nov. 29, 2018
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Chandler Gilbert Community College - Sustainability as a Campus Wide Strategy
- Chandler-Gilbert Community College (AZ)
This presentation will demonstrate how to integrate sustainability into institutional effectiveness. Chandler Gilbert Community College has embedded a commitment to sustainability into its strategic plan for 2007-2012. The strategic plan …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Vision
- British Columbia Institute of Technology (BC)
Sustainability was a powerful theme throughout consultation for the development of the BCIT Strategic Plan 2019–2022 (Relevance. Reach. Renewal.). Building on this energy, we embarked on an intensive process to …
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Developing a Strategic Sustainability Plan based on the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System (STARS) framework
- Thompson Rivers University (BC)
- Stantec Consulting, Ltd. (WA)
Through an extensive consultation process in 2014, Thompson Rivers University (TRU) identified 'advancing Sustainability' as 1 of 5 strategic priorities. TRU developed a Strategic Sustainability Plan (SSP) using AASHE's Sustainability …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Using Planning to Integrate Sustainability across the Campus
- Stockton University (NJ)
The submitting College, located in the Pinelands of southern New Jersey near the Atlantic shore, has had a distinct sustainability orientation since its founding in 1969. For example, the College …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Engaging sustainability good practice within the curriculum design and property portfolio in the Australian higher education sector
- Deakin University
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The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the extent to which universities’ strategic plans affect the level of incorporation of sustainability within the curriculum design and property portfolio. …
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Sustainable Development at L'Université De Montréal: Transition to Sustainable Campuses
- Université de Montréal (QC)
On March 15, 2021, Université de Montréal's first-ever strategic plan for sustainable development was presented to the university’s assembly. The strategy was drawn up by the Sustainable Development Unit based …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Sustainability Plan
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
This Sustainability Plan puts forth a set of strategic goals to serve as a framework to elucidate the driving values and give direction to the university's approach to sustainability
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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The Next Big Thing: Sustainability as a Core Strategic Imperative
- Second Nature (MA)
The campus sustainability movement has been gaining momentum for more than a decade and yet it still adds up to little more than an itemized list of ad hoc actions …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Graduate Certificate in Strategic Risk and Responsibility
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
There is significant demand, especially in regulated industries, for individuals with a strong understanding of corporate risk management, compliance, governance, social responsibility and sustainability – and a specific need for …
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Yale Sustainability Action Planning poster session
- Yale University (CT)
Operational units and academic units celebrate their sustainability action planning efforts in a poster session event.
- Posted Oct. 12, 2017
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Sustainability Action Plan
- Champlain College (VT)
This document offers a roadmap for how Champlain College will carry out its Sustainability Values. This plan builds upon other College plans and policies, most notably the Strategic and Master …
- Posted Sept. 6, 2022
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Climate Action Plan
- Ball State University (IN)
The BSU Climate Action Plan indicates five-year increments of targeted reduction which aligns the energy conservation and carbon emissions planning with the five-year cycling of strategic academic planning.
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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Go Green or Get Gone: Teachers College as a Case Study
- Teachers College, Columbia University (NY)
What is the role of graduate schools of education in the face of local and global environmental challenges? This session explores this question by presenting the development process and implementation …
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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A Beginner's Guide to Developing a Comprehensive Communication Strategy
- Lehigh University (PA)
As sustainability professionals, we tend to wear many hats. This session is designed for those who are new to communications and unsure of where to begin developing a communications plan …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Educating for Sustainability Webinar Series - Strategies for Institutionalizing Sustainability in the Curriculum
- Dickinson College (PA)
- University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College (HI)
- AASHE (MA)
This webinar provides a broad and diverse perspective on the topic from a panel which includes: Krista Hiser & Bob Franco - Kapiolani Community College and Lindsey Lyons - Dickinson …
- Posted March 20, 2018
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Webinar: Strategic Planning and Pathway Development for Significantly Reducing GHG Emissions (Scopes 1 and 2)
- University of Chicago (IL)
- AASHE (MA)
- Trio (CA)
Meeting the urgent call to mitigate the impacts of climate change: Given the early success with meeting GHG reduction targets by 2025, the University of Chicago has developed more ambitious …
- Posted June 14, 2022
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Master of Strategic Leadership Toward Sustainability
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
The aim of this programme is for each Master's graduate to: Have a thorough understanding of an intellectually strict, widely applicable framework for strategic sustainable development. To develop leadership capabilities …
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Zero Waste by X? (Part 1) Facilitating the Vision
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
This is Part 1 of a two-part workshop series to navigate the challenges and opportunities with developing a campus-wide strategic visioning and planning process for college campuses looking to achieve …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Sustainability Plan
- North Carolina State University (NC)
NC State’s Sustainability Strategic Plan is a five-year roadmap that builds upon the university’s strengths, momentum, and decades of sustainability progress. It sets forth an ambitious set of goals and …
- Posted Oct. 19, 2022
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Navigating the STARS 2.0 Experience: From Data Collection to Strategic Planning
- Emory University (GA)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
One of the most important attributes of AASHE's STARS 2.0 framework is to allow institutions to understand all aspects of their sustainability performance, benchmark their sustainability performance against both other …
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Zero Waste by X? (Part 2) Proposing the Plan
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
This is Part 2 of a two-part workshop series at #AASHE24 to navigate the challenges and opportunities with developing a campus-wide strategic visioning and planning process for college campuses looking …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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