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BA in Art and Environment
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
The B.A. in Art and Environment at Unity College enables students to study studio art within the context of environmental education. Through an environmental art apprenticeship program, students have ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Concentration in Sustainability, Master of Divinity
- Wake Forest University (NC)
The Wake Forest Center for Energy, Environment, and Sustainability (CEES) and the School of Divinity provide students with exposure to sustainability issues through the Graduate Certificate in Sustainability. The certificate ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Social Justice Organizing Program
- Reconstructionist Rabbinical College (PA)
The Social Justice Organizing (SJO) program at RRC trains rabbis to be Jewish leaders in bringing about a socially just, environmentally sustainable and spiritually fulfilling society. It is the first ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Ecology and Justice Specialization, MA in in Practical Theology
- Methodist Theological School in Ohio (OH)
The Ecology and Justice Specialization constructs a foundation in practical theology for engaging systems that support thriving of life for future generations. Students will be equipped to seek ways for ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Christian Earthkeeping Concentration
- George Fox University (OR)
Christian Earthkeeping is the Church’s response to the ecological crisis and to God’s command to “keep” the Earth (Genesis 2:15). This concentration aims to form evangelical leaders ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Report on Catholic Ecology Courses in Catholic Seminaries in the United States, Canada, Rome, and the Holy Land
This report highlights courses on ecological themes offered at a number of Catholic seminaries in North America, Rome, and the Holy Land. 48 Catholic seminaries and theological schools in North ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Report on Faith and Ecology Courses in North American Seminaries
This report details over 170 faith and ecology courses offered at about 60 theological schools and seminaries. It also highlights twenty-five seminaries in North America that excel in offering courses ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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MA concentration in Religion and Ecology
- Drew University (NJ)
The Master of Arts program is a two-year master's degree designed for students who wish to acquire a foundation in theological and religious studies as preparation for further studies ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Natural Resources and the Environment Major
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
The Natural Resources and the Environment Major is an interdisciplinary environmental major that integrates coursework in forest ecosystems and geology with the broad range of potential environmental coursework offered at ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Major in Ecology and Biodiversity
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
The Major in Ecology and Biodiversity is an interdisciplinary major that integrates coursework in biology, ecology, and evolution with other environmental disciplines.
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Master of Arts with Concentration in Religion and the Environment
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
The Master of Arts (M.A.) program of the School of Theology is designed as a general academic degree for people who wish to begin advanced study of theological disciplines ...
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Center for Religion and Environment
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
The Center for Religion and Environment’s threefold mission is to help students and the broader community integrate religious belief with care for the environment, to prepare students across the ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Watershed Science Certificate
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
The Watershed Science Certificate is designed for students interested in gaining a better understanding of the interactions among the physical, chemical, and biological factors that affect our watersheds and wetlands ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Religion and Environment Minor
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
The ways we interact with the natural world reflect the deep-seated values of the society to which we belong and the experiences of nature we have as individuals. Religion, and ...
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Environment and Sustainability Major
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
Broadly stated, the goal of the Environment and Sustainability major is to prepare students to analyze and address complex environmental issues from a variety of perspectives. Because all environmental systems ...
- Posted April 12, 2016
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Environmental Arts and Humanities Major
- Sewanee - The University of the South (TN)
An interdisciplinary major that explores humanity’s evolving relation to the environment with the benefit of diverse perspectives offered by history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion.
- Posted April 12, 2016
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MA/MS in Sustainable Communities
- Binghamton University (NY)
The master’s program in Sustainable Communities at Binghamton University is one of the first sustainability-focused graduate degrees offered by the State University of New York (SUNY) system. Through this ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Campus Sustainability Leadership Professional Certificate Program
- University of Vermont (VT)
Professional Certificate in Campus Sustainability Leadership
As we stand at a critical moment in Earth’s history, colleges, universities, and other institutions must play a critical role in developing innovative ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute (BECI)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute (BECI) is the coordinating hub for energy and climate research at UC Berkeley. BECI fosters collaboration between UC Berkeley, the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Precourt Energy Efficiency Center
- Stanford University (CA)
The Precourt Energy Efficiency Center promotes economically efficient reductions in energy demand through research, education and dissemination of information. PEEC is an independent research lab that works with all seven ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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"Seeing Systems" Discussion Activity on Peace, Justice and Sustainability Issues
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Active, personally relevant learning is at the heart of an effective education. This discussion
activity takes students and other campus participants through a process of exploring sustainability through small group ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Powering A Bright Future Discussion Activity on Energy Issues
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Active, personally relevant learning is at the heart of an effective education. This activity takes students and other campus participants through a process of exploring sustainability through small group discussion ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Climate Change Discussion Activity
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Active, personally relevant learning is at the heart of an effective education. This
activity takes students or other campus participants through a process of exploring sustainability through small group discussion ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Food, Ethics and Sustainability Discussion Activity
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Active, personally relevant learning is at the heart of an effective education.
This activity takes participants through a process of exploring sustainability
through small group discussion and personal reflection designed ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Toward Instruments of Assessing Sustainability Knowledge: Assessment development, process, and results from a pilot survey at the University of Maryland
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Colleges and universities strive to educate all students for a sustainable future; however, few institutions assess students’ knowledge of sustainability concepts. Hundreds of institutions are currently measuring their overall sustainability ...
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Education for sustainability in business education programs: a question of value
This paper posits that sustainability is essentially a question of value, a notion that is situated within the context of an individual, organisational and community perspective. Each person or group ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Undergrad Perspectives: The Business of Changing the World
- Net Impact (CA)
Net Impact surveyed 1,650 undergraduate students on their beliefs about the current state of business, the role they see themselves playing in improving the world through their careers, and ...
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Building a Sustainability Road Map for Engineering Education
Major environmental, economic, and social trends are transforming the application of sustainability thinking within the engineering profession and within organizations that hire engineers. These include the growing demand for new ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Business Skills for a Changing World: An Assessment of What Global Companies Need from Business Schools
- Net Impact (CA)
The World Environment Center and Net Impact partnered to identify the core skills needed by business school students to prepare them better for future employment in companies with strong sustainability ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Culture of Disengagement in Engineering Education?
- Rice University (TX)
Much has been made of the importance of training ethical, socially conscious engineers, but does US engineering education actually encourage neophytes to take seriously their professional responsibility to public welfare ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Missing the wood for the trees: systemic defects and the future of education for sustainable development
The division in approaches to education for sustainable development (ESD) as described by Vare and Scott is revisited. A strong bias in ESD towards personal behaviour change and aspirations to ...
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Covering the Cost: Why We can no Longer Afford to Ignore High Textbook Prices
- The Student PIRGs (OR)
This report investigates the degree to which high textbook prices affect student financial standing and behavior.
Key Findings from the Report:
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Almost one-third (30%) of students replied that they had ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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Sustainability Culture Indicator
- Awake (Victoria)
Developed in 2011 and since used in dozens of organizations around the world, the Sustainability Culture Indicator (SCI) is an online survey which measures the extent to which sustainability is ...
- Posted April 10, 2016
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Commonfund Study of Responsible Investing: A Survey of Endowments and Their Affiliated Foundations
- Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges (DC)
- National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO) (DC)
Commonfund Institute, NACUBO and AGB survey builds upon the 2014 NACUBO-Commonfund Study of Endowments by delving in to responsible investing practices, policies and portfolio strategies. Topics covered include:
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Defining responsible ...
- Posted April 8, 2016
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The State of Campus Resilience in the Face of a Changing Climate
- Haley & Aldrich, Inc. (MA)
- Society for College and University Planning (MI)
Climate-related events pose a major threat to college and university campuses across the country, and this is only expected to worsen as the climate continues to change. Along with an ...
- Posted April 8, 2016
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Institutional Pathways to Fossil-Free Investing: Endowment Management in a Warming World
- Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)
- Sustainable Endowments Institute (MA)
This report provides an analysis of climate-related portfolio risk faced by educational and philanthropic endowments and presents three pathways toward reallocating an endowment portfolio into fossil-free investment opportunities, across asset ...
- Posted April 8, 2016
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The Reinvestment Handbook: Green Endowments Initiative
The Reinvestment Handbook is a resource for the next generation of responsible investors. It is designed to help students better understand their university endowment, the key pillars of SRI funds ...
- Posted April 8, 2016
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Faculty, Staff, and Adjunct Salary Database
- Chronicle of Higher Education (DC)
This interactive database gives you key data and insights on faculty, staff, and adjunct pay at more than 5,000 colleges and universities.
Explore Chronicle Data today and get industry-wide ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement for Environment and Sustainability
The Learning and Teaching Academic Standards Statement for Environment and Sustainability has been developed by the environment and sustainability higher education community. This statement describes the minimum or threshold learning ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Lecturers’ perspectives on how introductory economic courses address sustainability
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– The purpose of this article is to explore sustainability commitments’ potential implications for the curriculum of introductory economics courses. Universities have signed the Talloires Declaration, committing themselves to promoting ...
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The Efficient Drowning of a Nation: Is Economics Education Warping Gifted Minds and Eroding Human Prospects?
Humanity has put itself in great peril, as the impending demise of the nation of Kiribati due to global warming illustrates. This failure to act is in part due to ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Introductory economics courses and the university’s commitments to sustainability
- University of British Columbia (BC)
The three largest public universities in British Columbia, Canada have signed the Talloires Declaration, committing themselves to promoting students’ environmental literacy and ecological citizenship. As a result, there is pressure ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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Teaching (un)sustainability? University sustainability commitments and student experiences of introductory economics
The three largest public universities in British Columbia, Canada have signed the Talloires Declaration, committing themselves to promoting sustainability and creating expectations that they will integrate sustainability across the curriculum ...
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Sustainability in the Curriculum and Teaching of Economics: Transforming Introductory Macroeconomics
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
Present models of economic growth primarily focus on the role of expenditures as captured in the commonly cited economic indicator, gross domestic product (GDP), where GDP is defined as the ...
- Posted April 7, 2016
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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 ...
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Systematic Change Through Reciprocal Partnerships
- Connecticut College (CT)
The Office of Sustainability at Connecticut College has demonstrated its commitment to community change in its collaborative support for the New London County Food Policy Council (NLCFPC). The NLCFPC is ...
- Posted April 6, 2016
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Internal Carbon Accounting at a Small Liberal Arts College
- Vassar College (NY)
As colleges and universities pursue greenhouse gas reductions, it has become clear that some
approach is necessary for putting a price on carbon emissions and communicating that cost to energy ...
- Posted April 6, 2016
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North D Compost Pilot
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
- Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MA)
After conducting a waste audit of the North Apartment Residential Complex in October of 2014, it was found that approximately 27% of the trash stream consisted of food waste and ...
- Posted April 6, 2016
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Compendium of Organics Recovery Programs at Colleges and Universities
- University of Louisville (KY)
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
The Center for Environmental Policy and Management at the University of Louisville in partnership with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 and select southeastern U.S. schools have ...
- Posted April 6, 2016
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STARS Silver for NAIT
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (AB)
NAIT’s environmentally friendly programs and initiatives have earned the institute a STARS Silver sustainability ranking, the highest of any Canadian polytechnic. NAIT was the first Canadian polytechnic to achieve ...
- Posted April 3, 2016
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