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Environmental Justice & Nature Immersion: A Collaborative Partnership
- North Hennepin Community College (MN)
- YMCA of the North (MN)
GCST 1970 is a nature-based, credit-bearing program for North Hennepin Community College and high school students from Brooklyn Park, MN, in partnership with the YMCA and Three Rivers Park District ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Exploring the development of context appreciation in coursework that targets problem-solving for sustainable development
- Griffith University (Queensland)
- Swinburne University of Technology
This study aims to explore the role of planned, sudden shifts in lived experiences, in influencing learner capabilities towards improved problem-solving for sustainable development outcomes. The authors responded to employers ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Energy Immersions: multi-disciplinary trips exploring energy transitions, communities, and justice.
- Dartmouth College (NH)
A critical role of sustainability in higher education is to prepare the next generation of leaders to enact just transitions in food, transportation, health, industrial, and energy systems. Enacting system ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Sterling College: Southwest Field Semester
- Sterling College (VT) (VT)
Students participating in class in the Southwest Field Semester of Sterling College, a 12-credit course that provides students 84 continuous days in the field and affords them an immersive learning ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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Revolutionizing Sustainability Connections: Corporations, Communities, and Higher Education
- Montclair State University (NJ)
The PSEG Institute for Sustainability Studies at Montclair State University advances sustainability by developing community-engaged research projects and building educational programs through academic-corporate-public partnerships. We engage in activities that promote ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Fall 2017 Immersive Learning: Brownfields to Brightfields
- Ball State University (IN)
With the support and facilitation of the Center for Energy Research/Education/Service (CERES) at Ball State University, a group of second year urban planning students in the College of ...
- Posted April 3, 2018
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Immersive Learning in Sustainable Building Design and Construction Practices
- University of Arkansas (AR)
Sustainability registers a high appeal among students as they face climate change. At Florida International University, a research program has been established to test if the Technology Mediated Learning Environments ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Rethinking Service Immersion: Engaging Students for Systemic Change on Campus and in the Community
- Gonzaga University (WA)
An experiential service-learning program inspired three students at Gonzaga University to make measurable change on their campus. After a week of sustainability volunteerism, students returned to school with ideas for ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Expanding Sustainability Horizons - Educational Tourism and the Virtual Classroom
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Graduate and professional (non-credit) programs offered through Virginia Tech's Center for Leadership in Global Sustainability prepare students for careers in an increasingly interconnected, urbanizing, and global workplace by combining ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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SCU CLASP-Hero Projects: A Collaborative Immersion Production
- Santa Clara University (CA)
In 2012, the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University and "voluntourism" company Hero Projects partnered to create the CLASP (Co-creative Leadership and Sustainability Program) Alaska Immersion trip. The ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Students Heat Up Las Pintas: An immersive service experience in solar technology
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
Water is a necessity for all of us, but to some, heating it is a luxury. Now in its second year, the Las Pintas Solar Experience takes Johnson County Community ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Immersion Education: Transcending Psychological Barriers to Action
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
In this briefing, we will bring together some of the best thinking on psychological barriers to action at local and global scales from the American Psychological Association and combine it ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Four Approaches to Sustainability Education: One Degree
- Prescott College (AZ)
A look at doctoral programs across the United States reveals there is only one focused specifically in Sustainability Education. In its 9th year of operation, Prescott College’s Sustainability Education ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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From the Bayou to our Campus: Immersive Experience as an Opportunity for Student Leadership
- University at Buffalo (NY)
Over the last two years, our students have travelled to southern Louisiana as part of our Alternative Winter Break program to help transform and adapt the landscape into one that ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Sustainable Spring Break
- Indiana University South Bend (IN)
For a typical college student, Spring Break is a week to get away and participate in activities that will help them get their minds off of the business that they ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Immersed in the Environment: A Concentrated Weekend Course
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
The Environment Today' course at Carnegie Mellon is organized by students held over one intense weekend in the spring semester. Course content is expansive and challenging; such as 'Biodiversity and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Semester Immersion in Climate Change Science, Ecological History and Human Dimensions
- Dickinson College (PA)
We are team teaching an interdisciplinary program in fall 2011 in which a dozen students and three faculty members will immerse themselves in explorations of the science, human and ecological ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Advancing Sustainability Education: Transformative Learning and Undergraduate Research Experiences
- Kansas State University (KS)
Sustainable energy is a critical area of importance nationally and internationally in terms of education and workforce development. To address this need, K-State has implemented a National Science Foundation (NSF ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Effectiveness of a Seagoing Immersion Program in Fostering Environmental Awareness
- Coastal Carolina University (SC)
- University of Virginia (VA)
In Spring 2010, approximately 700 students, faculty, staff and life-long learners circumnavigated the globe as participants in the University of Virginia's Semester at Sea study abroad program. Over the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Heifer International's Alternative Spring Break: Experiential Immersion Course
- Virginia Tech (VA)
Heifer International (HI) facilitates an Alternative Spring Break (ASB) in Perryville, Arkansas, teaching individuals across the country about the organization's mission to "work with communities to end hunger and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Nature Immersion: A Model for Sustainability Education
- University of Wisconsin-Superior (WI)
This presentation is an overview of a new Nature Immersion Model for Sustainability Education. This model entails a week-long "Leadership in Sustainability" seminar offered through Student Support Services at the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Environmental Law Center
- Vermont Law School (VT)
Founded in 1978, the ELC serves as the hub for a wide-range of activities, including classes, faculty, research centers and institutes, conferences, lectures, and other special programs. At the ELC ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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