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Integrating Wellness and Diversity into the Sustainability Model: A Faculty and Staff Perspective
- Augsburg University (MN)
- Bemidji State University (MN)
The Bemidji State University (BSU) Sustainability Office realized in 2008 that the work they felt called to do required a different visual representation than the typical Venn diagram that includes ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Solastalgia: Reconnecting With the Natural World and Mobilizing for the Greater Good
- The College of Saint Scholastica (MN)
Solastalgia is a term coined by Glenn Albrecht used to describe mental distress (anxiety, grief, depression) caused by experiencing changes in one's environment. Though Western science has started to ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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The Conscience of a Campus Framework, Integrating Local and Global Cultures
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
- MKThink (CA)
Today's university demographics are extremely diverse, and each university/college campus has its own personality and history. Every institution has unique layers of history, context and culture, that if ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Land Acknowledgements
- Bemidji State University (MN)
A Land Acknowledgement is a statement that 'recognizes the Indigenous peoples who have been dispossessed from the homelands and territories upon which an institution was built and currently occupies and ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Social Justice in Learning Outcomes: Environmental Literacy in an Indigenous Language Hotspot
- Everett Community College (WA)
This session introduces a bottom-up approach to curriculum in environmental literacy, aligned explicitly to social justice learning outcomes at a state community college in Everett, Washington. Presented herein are three ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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No Sustainability Without Justice, Volume II
- AASHE (MA)
- Winthrop University (SC)
- Allegheny College (PA)
- College of Charleston (SC)
- Trinity College (CT) (CT)
- Howard University (DC)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
Volume II of No Sustainability Without Justice: An Anthology on Racial Equity and Social Justice shares perspectives from 14 authors on how racial equity, social justice, diversity and inclusion are ...
- Posted Oct. 29, 2021
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How to Create a Culturally Inclusive Course and Beyond
- Duke University (NC)
Overview The goal of this document is to provide resources and ideas for creating a culturally inclusive learning environment. This is also referred to as “culturally sustaining pedagogy,” “diversifying the ...
- Posted July 15, 2021
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Embedding sacred ecology in sustainability solutions: The role of post-secondary environmental science programs
- Central European University
There is increasing attention to the potential contribution of traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) to addressing an unprecedented crisis in social-ecological systems. Approaches to the bridging of scientific and indigenous knowledges ...
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Indigenous Interconnections
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Project Name: Indigenous Interconnections Student Name: Daniel Torres Balauro Project Mentors: Aurora Winslade and Carr Everbach Project Board Members: Aurora Winslade, Director of Sustainability, Office of Sustainability Carr Everbach, Professor ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Truth before reconciliation: the difficulties of transforming higher education in settler colonial contexts
- University of British Columbia (BC)
In response to the contemporary context of reconciliation in Canada, colleges and universities have made efforts to ‘Indigenise’ their campuses, extending earlier, Indigenous-led efforts to create more space for Indigenous ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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A colonial history of the higher education present: rethinking land-grant institutions through processes of accumulation and relations of conquest
- Idaho State University (ID)
This conceptual paper examines the colonial conditions of possibility for a formative moment of US public higher education, the Morrill Act of 1862, and considers how these conditions continue to ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Indigenous perspectives on education for sustainable healthcare
- University of North Dakota (ND)
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- University of Auckland
- Bond University (Queensland)
- El Fondo para el Desarrollo de los Pueblos Indígenas de América Latina y El Caribe (FILAC)
- Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation (NT)
A range of global environmental changes are contributing to an increasing global burden of disease. Since human health and well-being are intimately associated with the health of our planet, healthcare ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Sustainable development education, practice, and research: an indigenous model of sustainable development at the College of Menominee Nation, Keshena, WI, USA
- College of Menominee Nation (WI)
The College of Menominee Nation Sustainable Development Institute’s theoretical model (SDI model) conceptualizes sustainable development as the process of maintaining the balance and reconciling the inherent tensions among six ...
- Posted Jan. 12, 2021
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American Indian and Indigenous Graduate Minor
- Cornell University (NY)
The American Indian Program offers American Indian Studies as a minor field in graduate studies. Graduate students select a faculty member from the field of American Indian Studies to serve ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Tribal Natural Resources Stewardship Certificate
- University of Idaho (ID)
The Tribal Natural Resources Stewardship Certificate involves courses in tribal sovereignty and federal policy, ecology, and landscape resilience
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Land-Based Indigenous Education (MED)
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
This Master of Education course-based graduate program of study offers courses with a land-based focus. This focus includes intensive land-based field institutes where students take graduate level courses framed within ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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South Dakota State University Wokini Initiative
- South Dakota State University (SD)
The Wokini Initiative at South Dakota State University aims to increase the number of enrolled American Indian students, support their academic success, and boost their graduation rate. The groundwork for ...
- Posted Oct. 26, 2020
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University of Saskatchewan - SCI2020 Indigenous Pathways
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
Student dancing at University of Saskatchewan graduation Powwow.
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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A Multi-Perspective Reflection on How Indigenous Knowledge and Related Ideas Can Improve Science Education for Sustainability
- Universität Bremen
- Malmö University
Indigenous knowledge provides specific views of the world held by various indigenous peoples. It offers different views on nature and science that generally differ from traditional Western science. Futhermore, it ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Campus-Based Ecotourism: A Case Study on the Power of Local Ecotourism
- University of Nebraska at Omaha (NE)
- University of Nebraska Medical Center (NE)
Academic campuses across the Great Plains can serve as landscapes for teaching and learning about native flora of cultural importance with regard to food, medicine, and lifeways. Campus visitors (tourists ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Integrating perspectives from indigenous knowledge and Western science in secondary and higher chemistry learning to contribute to sustainability education
- Universität Bremen
- Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (Banten)
In this paper, we suggest integrating perspectives from indigenous and Western science into chemistry learning. Doing so is suggested to enhance students' views on sustainability issues. Integrating indigenous and Western ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Niizhoo-gwayakochigewin: Two Ways of Making Things Right
- Bemidji State University (MN)
Named for an Ojibwe phrase which translates to 'two ways of making things right,' Niizhoo-gwayakochigewin draws from Bemidji State University's (BSU) Sustainability Office, Department of Languages and Indigenous Studies ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Digging In: Specific Examples of Including Diversity in Sustainability Work
- Bemidji State University (MN)
- Central College (IA)
We all have to make sure the sustainability movement is not a white, elitist movement. Join two Sustainability Directors as they share their successes, challenges, and lessons learned through integrating ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Seeing Sustainability Through Indigenous Eyes: Collaborative Cross-Cultural Teaching and Learning
- George Mason University (VA)
This presentation will showcase a field course offered by George Mason University in collaboration with the Maijuna indigenous group of the Peruvian Amazon. The authors worked with the Maijuna to ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Indigenous Strategy
- University of Calgary (AB)
Indigenous Strategy - The University of Calgary shared its Indigenous Strategy in 2017 after collecting input from over 2,200 individuals and engaging with Indigenous communities and community stakeholders. Entitled ii ...
- Posted July 31, 2019
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The University of Winnipeg's Star Blanket Mural
- University of Winnipeg (MB)
This mural covering the University of Winnipeg’s Helen Betty Osborne Building depicts a Star Blanket, and symbolizes the institution’s commitment to indigenization and reconciliation. The mural was completed ...
- Posted July 29, 2019
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Building an Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledge Initiative at a Research University: Decolonization Notes from the Field
- University of Oregon (OR)
In this article, we discuss the importance of Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge as the foundation of sustainability education, and we describe the need for, and successful efforts to, begin building ...
- Posted July 19, 2019
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UMCycle Bike Kiosk and Cycle Plaza
- University of Manitoba (MB)
The UMCycle Bike Kiosk offers a four-season community bike shop where University students, faculty, staff and surrounding community can come together to get their bikes serviced; connect with other cycle ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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WEB of Science Database: Sustainable Knowledge of the Hopi A Prototype for the Future Research
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The Hopi tribe of the US Southwest is the carrier of the traditional knowledge (TK) comprising the knowledge of sustainable living. The search of the Web of Science database has ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Co-Designing a Sustainable, Native American Cultural Center with the Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate
- University of Virginia (VA)
Public engagement is a crucial way for higher education institutions to align their teaching and research activities around the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This case study examines how an interdisciplinary ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Indigenous Nations and Native American Studies BA/BS
- Portland State University (OR)
The major focuses on critical studies and practices of Tribal race theory, decolonizing methodologies, traditional and cultural ecological knowledge, and contemporary themes, such as community health, food sovereignty, Indigenous land ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2018
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UMN Morris Native American Student Success (NASS) program
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
University of Minnesota Morris is the only four-year Native American-Serving Nontribal Institution in the Upper Midwest. Twenty-one percent of Morris students are Native American with 65 federally recognized tribes represented ...
- Posted July 31, 2018
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Native American and Indigenous Studies Minor
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
The Native American and Indigenous Studies minor is designed to enhance a student’s awareness and their overall knowledge about sovereignty and the diversity of Indigenous cultures throughout all of ...
- Posted July 13, 2018
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Native American and Indigenous Studies (BA)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
The Native American and Indigenous Studies major is designed to enhance a student’s awareness and their overall knowledge about sovereignty and the diversity of Indigenous cultures throughout all of ...
- Posted July 13, 2018
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Climate Change and Art: Transparency with Miguel Barros
- Bow Valley College (AB)
To celebrate Earth Day 2018, the BVC Green team, Intercultural Centre, International Education, and Iniikokaan Aboriginal Centre at Bow Valley College partnered to host artist Miguel Barros' work Transparency, depicting ...
- Posted April 26, 2018
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Native Peoples & the Environment Minor
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
The Native Peoples and the Environment minor is available to all ESF undergraduates. The interdisciplinary suite of courses provides students with a cohesive introduction to Indigenous cultures, worldviews and knowledge ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Native American Studies (BA)
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
The Native American Studies major program has three goals. One is to help students realize the objectives of an undergraduate major as defined at Humboldt State, “to attain an understanding ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Native American Studies Minor
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
The Native American Studies major program has three goals. One is to help students realize the objectives of an undergraduate major as defined at Humboldt State, “to attain an understanding ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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American Indian Studies Graduate Certificate in Renewable Natural Resources
- University of Arizona (AZ)
The goal is to train graduate students and related professionals to be conversant with the problems of managing natural resources on American Indian reservations and off-reservation areas.
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Kanawayihetaytan Asky Certificate Program
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
The Kanawayihetaytan Askiy, formerly the Indigenous Peoples Resource Management program, is a uniquely designed certificate program that is focused on providing a broad range of topic areas specific to the ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Risk & Community Resilience (Interdisciplinary MS)
- University of Alberta (AB)
This degree program examines different aspects of social-ecological relations, challenging us to think about how peoples, locally and globally, see and respond to changes in their environment including those associated ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Multiple Ways of Knowing in Sustainability Education: Stretching the Boundaries of Transformative Sustainability Learning
- Goucher College (MD)
This session focuses on how teaching for multiple ways of knowing can contribute to sustainability education by highlighting work done at the University of Saskatchewan which is encapsulated within two ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Ten Years of Including Wellness in the Sustainability Model
- Bemidji State University (MN)
Bemidji State University's Sustainability Office created a unique model for sustainability that includes a wellness component. The mental, emotional, spiritual, and physical health of every person matters. Reducing anxiety ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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A framework for collaborative climate change research
- Colgate University (NY)
There is a growing understanding in the scientific community that the traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) of indigenous peoples and other local communities is both different from data collected by scientists ...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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Xiuhtezcatl Martinez; 16-year-old indigenous Climate Activist
- Georgia College & State University (GA)
Georgia College's Sustainability Fee Program will be hosting Xiuhtezcatl Martinez at the 2017 Sustainability Fee Program Symposium on April 20, 2017 at 5pm on Front Campus.
Xiuhtezcatl Martinez is ...
- Posted April 11, 2017
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Gaia Education Design for Sustainability Curriculum and its Application
- Gaia Education
The poster features the learning universe that Gaia Education operates in, and the many tracks of designing for sustainability both in residential (Wing) and online (Sky) programs. It also showcases ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Incorporating Indigenous Wisdom into Sustainability Education
- Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeway (AK)
Global Center for Indigenous Leadership and Lifeways President Ilarion Larry Merculieff has over 40 years experience serving the Aleuts of the Pribilof Islands and other indigenous peoples. At the AASHE ...
- Posted March 3, 2016
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Getting in Touch with the Pachamama: An Interdisciplinary course with emphasis on Global Sustainability and Study Abroad
- Central College (IA)
Pachamama Never Left: Nature and Culture of Peru is a liberal arts course at Central College. The course has a study abroad component with an emphasis on global sustainability. The ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Transforming Consciousness: A Follow Up to Ilarion Merculieff's Plenary
- Antioch University, Seattle (WA)
Ilarion Merculieff embodies Indigenous wisdom that we believe will deeply affect most, if not all, of his audience. After a short introduction, we will split up into the three groups ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Oskēh-Mamāceqtāwak Kēketōwak: Youth Speak
- College of Menominee Nation (WI)
High school students who are participating in College of Menominee Nation's Sustainability Leadership Cohort Program (SLC) will present two videos. The first video, Nama'o The Ancient Story Teller ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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