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Sustainability beyond the campus with service-learning: Case study with village street trees
- Colgate University (NY)
The Environmental Studies Program at our university is emphasizing community-based service and research in a recently-revised curriculum. A required service-learning course connects students with the sustainability mission of our institution ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building Pathways to Green Careers: Transforming Campus Service Learning into Green Workforce Training
- Alliance to Save Energy (CA)
The demand for a highly skilled workforce in the energy sector and green industries is rapidly growing as the nation moves towards a greener economy. Students involved in our multi-campus ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustaining Student Service at DePaul University
- DePaul University (IL)
At DePaul University, service to our academic community and beyond is the cornerstone of our urban, Catholic and Vincentian mission. Priding ourselves on our ability to put the student at ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Campuses as Learning Laboratories: A Framework to Achieve Institutional Sustainability Goals Through Service Learning
- Lansing Community College (MI)
Academic institutions can achieve institutional sustainability goals through service learning projects among their faculty and students. Institutions gain several advantages through this approach, including expedited implementation strategies for achieving sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Renew Crew Honduras: A Replicable University Service-Learning Initiative for Hands-On Experience in Renewable Energy Technology
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
As part of an embedded energy and engineering service learning initiative, the Renew Crew, eleven university students, installed a solar photovoltaic array for a community owned and operated well in ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Service-learning opportunities in sustainable construction, infrastructure and transportation development
- Presidio Graduate School (CA)
Students working to further the sustainability imperative on campuses are uniquely positioned to leverage their knowledge and expertise to drive sustainability outcomes in the delivery of transportation infrastructure projects both ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Curriculum Design: Balancing Academic Rigor with Successful Student Project Implementation
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
Educational initiatives in sustainability often promote student activism through service-learning projects or internships. The educational merit of practical opportunities for students to apply their academic learning to contemporary challenges concerning ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching Campus Sustainability: A Service Learning Class Focused On AASHE STARS
- University of Vermont (VT)
Sustainability directors are charged with educating the university population and helping the institution make real progress toward sustainability goals. Teaching a service-learning class is a feasible way for campus sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building sustainability communities through service learning at University of Denver
- University of Denver (CO)
The mission of the University of Denver includes a commitment to build active partnerships with local and global communities in an effort to contribute to "a sustainable common good." One ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Educating for Sustainability through Campus and Community Service
- Daemen University (NY)
In an interdisciplinary collaboration between a biologist and artist/designer at Daemen College, our service learning course engages students in environmental science through the creation of a campus outdoor education ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Service Learning Involving Community Partnerships and Community Sustainability Planning
- Acadia University (NS)
In Canada, communities are increasingly developing sustainability plans in order to access federal funds made available through a municipal gas tax rebate program. While larger communities are well positioned to ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Green Spring Break: Lessons in Sustainable Service
- Bowling Green State University (OH)
The presence of "alternative" spring breaks based in service across the U.S. seems firmly entrenched in higher education, and their popularity is increasing as students become more service-oriented. Newer ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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"Doing Science" as Service Learning
- Oklahoma City University (OK)
How can a science department in a college or university actually "do science" and be of service to the community; how can scientists-in-training perform testing and experiments in the field ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Campus-Community Partnerships for a Sustainable Future: Service-Learning Courses
- University of Vermont (VT)
It is important that universities not work in isolation on their sustainability initiatives, but extend beyond the walls of academe and link with others in the broader community. Service-learning partnerships ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Doing Makes All the Difference
- Wright State University (OH)
This field report presents information relating to an interdisciplinary service-learning course, Environmental and Social Sustainability in Appalachia, offered through the University Honors Program during Winter Quarter and Spring Break, 2010 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Power of Engagement: Connecting Community Service with Sustainable Choices
- Wright State University (OH)
This presentation focuses on increased understanding of critical environmental issues with a commitment to action for students and community members engaged in three service learning projects in an environmental literacy ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Implementing Sustainability Teaching, Research, and Service at Florida A&M University
- Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FL)
The Environment and Sustainability Council is embarked on a comprehensive and integrated approach to institutionalize sustainability at Florida A&M University (FAMU), an 1890 land-grant institution dedicated to the advancement of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Service-Learning and Sustainability: Engaging Students in Sustainability Action
- Georgia Southern University (GA)
Service-learning engages students in service in order to improve understanding of course concepts with hands-on learning. Campus sustainability programs often seek to engage students in sustainability action projects in order ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Social Sustainability in Practice: Pay 30 Forward at Rio Salado
- Rio Salado College (AZ)
Rio Salado College believes that investing in volunteerism is good business. In July 2009, Rio launched Pay 30 Forward to promote social sustainability at Rio Salado. The program honors Rio ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Fostering Sustainability, Community and Service from Middle-School through Higher Education
- Saint John's University (MN)
In a collaboration between the St. John's University School of Education, the Office of Sustainability, the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Grow NYC, Queens Botanic Gardens and the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Fostering change agents for sustainability
- Tufts University (MA)
Graduate work on the effectiveness of a social psychology-based, experiential learning course on generating undergraduate civic leaders in sustainability behavior change is described. This presentation outlines the structure of the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Achieving Campus Sustainability through Service-Learning
- University of Alberta (AB)
How can you overcome budget cuts and staffing shortages while still achieving campus sustainability goals and empowering your student body? The University of Alberta's liberal arts campus, Augustana, has ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Green Art + Environmental Design: Collaborations through Research Service Learning
- University of Virginia (VA)
Art and environmental design should be powerful and integral aspects of sustainability education, though they are often excluded from comprehensive discussions that include science, technology, economics, society and politics. Successful ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Service-Learning in the Classroom
- Ursinus College (PA)
One pedagogical method of integrating sustainability into the classroom is through service-learning. A service-learning partnership was created between an upper-level environmental studies climate change class at Ursinus College (UC) and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Building Sustainability & Community in a Student-Led, Service-Learning Environment
- Truman State University (MO)
Often, there is a perceived divide between a campus and the greater community and an actual divide between university practices and sustainable ones. We seek to break down both barriers ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Appropedia and Sustainable Development for Improved Service Learning
- Queen's University
By labeling this the "Decade of Education for Sustainable Development" (2005-2014), the United Nations, representing the global community, has emphasized both the urgent need to promote sustainable development and the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Designing and Developing Service Learning Pedagogy in Support of Sustainability
- University of Florida (FL)
Service learning has become a recognized form of pedagogy in University graduate and undergraduate education. The term takes a variety of forms including structured internships, design and policy studios, law ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Double Dipping: Combining Research and Outreach in a Sustainability Service Learning Project
- California State University, Sacramento (CA)
Students in an introductory environmental science course for non-majors participated in a service learning project for Earth Day 2008 that combined outreach to fellow students and data collection for research ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Prairie Restoration and Community Building through Service Learning
- Carthage College (WI)
In a unique partnership, Carthage College and Harborside Academy (a high school specializing in expeditionary learning) recently paired with a local nature center in Kenosha, Wisconsin to design and implement ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Campus and Community, Tools for Teaching Sustainability: An Examination of a Service-Learning Project
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
This presentation will focus on a service-learning project that utilized the campus and community as tools to help teach sustainability in an introductory undergraduate course in Environmental Humanities. In this ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Environmental Action Component in Sustainability Coursework: Service Learning in the Syllabus
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
In 2007, a new module for service learning in sustainability education at UT Austin was implemented. Known as the Environmental Action Component (EAC), the module dynamically included environmental community service ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Learning Barge Initiative: Advancing Sustainability through Multi-disciplinary Research Service Learning
- University of Virginia (VA)
The Learning Barge Initiative is a unique example of university students and community partners collaborating on a project with wide-reaching social, educational and environmental benefits. The research, design and construction ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Applied Psychology: Service Learning to Address Campus Sustainability
- Wells College (NY)
In an upper-level psychology class titled, "Environmental Problems and Human Behavior," service learning was incorporated to address sustainability issues on the Wells College campus. Working in groups, students chose three ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Service Learning - Moving from Planning to Action in the First Year
- Wright State University (OH)
During 2005-2006 Wright State University's First Year Experience program was recognized nationally through its inclusion as one of 13 four-year institutions in the Foundations of Excellence in the First ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Brooke Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
The Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems enhances Georgia Tech’s research, education, and service missions, and campus operations through leadership, communications, development, and decision making inspired and defined by ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Real-world learning opportunities in sustainability: from classroom into the real world
Academic sustainability programs aim to develop key competencies in sustainability, including problem-solving skills and the ability to collaborate successfully with experts and stakeholders. These key competencies may be most fully ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Appropedia as a Tool for Service Learning in Sustainable Development
Numerous studies have demonstrated that university students are capable of contributing to sustainable development while improving their academic skills. Unfortunately for many institutions, the expense of sending large cohorts of ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Jumping from the Ivory Tower: Weaving Environmental Leadership and Sustainable Communities
- Front Range Community College, Larimer Campus (CO)
Jumping from the Ivory Tower demonstrates the positive results that occur when colleges work with communities to develop students with a sense of place. The book examines the role of ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Community organization staff perceptions about the importance of selected practices in building effective community-university service and learning partnerships
- Louisiana State University (LA)
The purpose of this study was to explore community organization staff perceptions about the importance of selected practices in building effective community-university service and learning partnerships. The target population was ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Students Conduct Environmental Audits for Credit and Public Service
- University at Buffalo (NY)
In 1995, undergraduate students at the State University of New York at Buffalo (UB) initiated an audit of campus practices and policies, an exemplary effort that developed into an internship-style ...
- Posted Feb. 24, 2016
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Ucalgarycares Sustainable Cities Service Learning Program
- University of Calgary (AB)
Sustainable Cities launched in 2014-2015 as an addition to a suite of "ucalgarycares" service-learning programs focusing on social justice issues. This program aims for students to become engaged with urban ...
- Posted June 11, 2015
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Hayward Promise Neighborhood Service Learning Solutions
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
Hayward Project Neighborhood (HPN) is a place-based initiative lead by California State University East Bay (CSUEB). The purpose of HPN is to significantly improve the educational and developmental outcomes of ...
- Posted June 11, 2015
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Owens Community College HARVEST Project
- Owens Community College (OH)
The Owens Community College Harvest Project seeks to "Help all People Reap the Value of Education through Service and working Together." Our on campus food pantry and community garden serve ...
- Posted June 22, 2012
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Sustainable Cities Initiative at the University of Oregon
- University of Oregon (OR)
Sustainable Cities Initiative (SCI) is a cross-disciplinary organization at the University of Oregon that seeks to promote education, service, public outreach and research on the development and design of sustainable ...
- Posted July 9, 2010
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