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Where Teaching and Learning Happens Matters: Sustainability Education Outside the Classroom
- Elon University (NC)
In the context of higher education, the significance of where teaching and learning happens is often assumed or taken for granted. To be sure, service-learning, study away, and community-based learning ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Applied Sustainability (Bachelor)
- Champlain College (VT)
In Champlain's Applied Sustainability major, you'll look at the various connections between people and planet from different perspectives, learning to create effective action plans and ask the right ...
- Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Achieving Deep Sustainability Through Hands-on Learning
- University of British Columbia (BC)
- University of the Fraser Valley (BC)
- Okanagan College (BC)
Achieving sustainability competencies often involves multiple skill sets, from abstract reasoning to applied and experiential learning. How exactly can sustainability competencies be demonstrated? How can these competencies be transferred to ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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High Impact Practices at Bridgewater State University’s Permaculture Garden and Local Farms
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
In this presentation, faculty from the Bridgewater State University Sustainability Program share their experiences of using the permaculture garden as a tool for their teaching, research, and scholarship. The goal ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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A Student-led Process for University Carbon Footprinting
- Michigan Technological University (MI)
Students at Michigan Technological University have been calculating the institution’s carbon footprint for over 20 years as part of a project-based academic course. We will share the contours of ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Teaching Kitchen Photo
- Stanford University (CA)
Stanford students learn how to create delicious, nutritious, and environmentally conscious dishes in the R&DE Teaching Kitchen at Stanford. The teaching kitchen provides cooking classes to students, staff, and faculty ...
- Posted Aug. 1, 2022
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Mohawk College Birch Bark Canoe
- Mohawk College (ON)
Master canoe-maker Chuck Commanda from Kitigan Zibi Anishinabeg, a First Nations community in Quebec, has been teaching a group of Indigenous students at Mohawk College how to build a birch ...
- Posted Aug. 1, 2022
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Hands on Learning
- Luther College (IA)
Luther College Professor Molly McNicoll leads students in a hands-on learning class setting.
- Posted July 27, 2022
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The Future is Co-Created: EfS Through Relationship Building in the Delaware Valley
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- PHENND (PA)
This session will introduce the new PHENND Sustainability network. Starting as a community of practitioners interested in finding partners for real-world Education for Sustainability (EfS), PHENND Sustainability has grown into ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Creating Change Agents for Campus Sustainability Through Applied Learning Projects
- Arizona State University (AZ)
This session will explore how the framework of key competencies in sustainability can be useful for campus operations. Our session will focus on how applied learning projects can generate both ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Applied Sustainability: Leadership Lessons From the Field
- Ohio University (OH)
- University of Oregon (OR)
- Local Government Commission (CA)
In order to empower leaders and build momentum for the sustainability movement, we need to embrace the full leadership pathway before, during and after the higher education experience. While much ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Campus as a Living lab: Building Resilient Teams Across Operations, Academics, and Administration
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
- San Mateo County Community College District Office (CA)
- Strategic Energy Innovations (CA)
Building resilient systems is now more critical than ever, particularly in realizing the promise of preparing a climate ready workforce for a just and equitable transition. California institutions of higher ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Campus as a Living Lab Curriculum: Lessons from a Diversity of Institutional Types
- Michael Roy Iversen, Urban and Campus Sustainability Consultancy (IL)
The 'campus as a living lab' approach blends academic curriculum and campus facilities management, so as to both benefit students with experiential, real-world learning, and institutions with a purposeful means ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Breaking into Academics Without a PhD: Creating Sustainability Curriculum from Facilities
- Florida State University (FL)
How can Offices of Sustainability change the academic culture of their institutions without an academic home? Colleges and universities are institutions of learning, and sustainability curriculum that engages students in ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Sterling College: Field Ecology at The Farm Between
- Sterling College (VT) (VT)
Students enrolled in Field Ecology explore plant systems and insect populations at Sterling's instructional site at The Farm Between in Jeffersonville, Vermont, with Dr. Laura Spence, Dean of Academics.
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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Student nurses exposed to sustainabilty education can challenge practice: A Cohort study
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
Climate change will adversely impact on the health of populations and on the ability of healthcare systems to deliver appropriate and timely care. Furthermore, resource scarcity requires nurses to practice ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Incorporating Sustainability Principles Into Architectural Design Education: Results of an Experimental Design Studio
- Middle East Technical University
- Izmir Institute of Technology (IYTE) (İzmir)
Design is a structured process or a tactical guideline to accomplish a unique expectation of a product, while a design studio is the environment where students are taught the skills ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Leading Deeper Change: The 1st Cohort of AASHE Members Share Their Experience Completing the REFOCUS Applied Learning Program
- College of William & Mary (VA)
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- AASHE (MA)
Last August, AASHE hosted a workshop on REFOCUS: a leadership development program designed to enable practitioners to generate deep organizational change and establish sustainability as a strategic priority. The eye-opening ...
- Posted May 30, 2019
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Scaffolding Applied Learning and Sustainable Development Goals in the Furman University Sustainability Science Program
- Furman University (SC)
The Furman University (Greenville, SC) Sustainability Science Bachelor of Science degree curriculum requires two introductory courses (Environmental Science, Sustainability Science), three intermediate courses (Human Systems, Social Systems, Dynamic Systems Modeling ...
- Posted May 7, 2019
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Embedding Higher Education into a Real-World Lab: A Process-Oriented Analysis of Six Transdisciplinary Project Courses
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
Since the early days of the emerging research format of Real-world Labs (RwLs), higher education plays a vital role in them. Examples have been presented on teaching activities in RwLs ...
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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Student Voices as the Key to Sustainability Assessment
- Central College (IA)
- University of Georgia (GA)
Sustainability encourages a rich and broad awareness of our selves in the world. Assessment of sustainability learning should reflect the powerful insights and values that we hope sustainability education encourages ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Applied Learning: Interventions for Sustainability Impacts
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Princeton University (NJ)
- University of Calgary (AB)
Applied learning (AL) for sustainability is an umbrella term and encompasses student engagement activities (e.g., internships, courses, research practicums) that deliver exceptional student experiences and a positive outcome for ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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From Theory to Practice: Applied Community Projects in Environmental Capstone Courses
- Earlham College (IN)
Over the past five years, Environmental Studies and Environmental Sustainability seniors at Earlham College have completed an 'integrated research project (IRP)' in collaboration with a community partner. The IRP is ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Drama in higher education for sustainability: work-based learning through fiction?
- Stockholm University
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to highlight the use of drama in the context of professional learning for sustainability, and specifically, a drama workshop on sustainability for in-service ...
- Posted Oct. 23, 2018
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The Applied Student Research Toolkit
- McGill University (QC)
This Applied Student Research (ASR) toolkit is designed to help students complete an impactful ASR project. ASR related to sustainability is an opportunity for students to address the needs of ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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Public-Public Partnerships for a New Paradigm in the Civic Role of the University
- California State University, Chico (CA)
Recognizing the need to proactively prepare engaged citizens for the dynamic socioeconomic and environmental conditions of the 21st century, the Institute for Sustainable Development at California State University (CSU), Chico ...
- Posted March 5, 2018
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Building a community of practice for applied learning for sustainability practitioners
- Arizona State University (AZ)
This meeting brings leaders and stakeholders interested in applied learning programs for sustainability outcomes together-catalyzing the development of a group of peers interested in collaborating on this topic. The meeting ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Applied learning for sustainability projects: Developing high impact student-community collaborations
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
Applied learning opportunities, from internships, to community-based learning courses to student research provide exceptional training for students in addressing complex sustainability challenges. These endeavors are mostly designed to optimize the ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Creating a Space for Collaboration and Cohort Building through Community Based Student Work Experiences
- Furman University (SC)
Furman University has a very strong Student Sustainability Fellowship Program through the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability. This program provides students with project-focused, sustainability related work experiences at a ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Integrated traditional and applied education in a public US university: exploring sustainable cities and regions in classrooms and communities
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
- University of Montevallo (AL)
The most effective and promising models for teaching sustainability sciences and studies in a university setting are a topic of vigorous debate. This paper discusses an integrated sustainability curriculum at ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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Integrated traditional and applied education—exploring sustainable cities and regions in classrooms and communities
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (NC)
The most effective and promising models for teaching sustainability sciences and studies in a university setting are a topic of vigorous debate. This paper discusses an integrated sustainability curriculum at ...
- Posted May 5, 2017
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SMCC STEMS Club Earth Day Event
- South Mountain Community College (AZ)
This semester the STEMS club successfully built a bike charging station, built and flew racing drones, grew flowers in the greenhouse and are composting landscape waste. It was a great ...
- Posted April 27, 2017
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Developing High Impact Applied Learning for Sustainability Programs
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
This webinar explores leading examples of applied learning in sustainability programs that are designed create exceptional student experiences and a lasting impact on the sustainability goals pursued by the community ...
- Posted March 15, 2017
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Transdisciplinary learning and teaching as answers to urban sustainability challenges
Purpose
This paper aims to explain the relevance of science-society interfaces and their potential for higher education institutions to engage stakeholders in supporting sustainable change in cities, via the transdisciplinary ...
- Posted Jan. 18, 2017
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Municipal collaboration for carbon footprinting: Syracuse, New York case study
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
Purpose
The City of Syracuse, New York, has undertaken energy conservation measures over the past decade. In 2011, the city completed a greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory that serves as the ...
- Posted Dec. 2, 2016
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Universities and Climate Change Mitigation: Advancing Grassroots Climate Policy in the US
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- ICF International (VA)
While US climate change mitigation policy has stalled at the national level, local and regional actors are increasingly taking progressive steps to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions. Universities are poised ...
- Posted Dec. 2, 2016
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Scaling applied learning programs for sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
Applied learning opportunities, from internships, to community-based learning courses to student research provide training for students in addressing complex societal challenges. These endeavors are mostly designed to optimize the student ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Scaling Applied Learning for Sustainability Programs: Building a Community of Peers
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
This meeting brings leaders of applied learning programs for sustainability outcomes together-catalyzing the development of a group of peers interested in collaborating on this topic. Scaling applied learning programs means ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Scaling Applied Learning for Sustainability Programs: Crash-Course
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
The panel presents insights for scaling applied learning programs for sustainability outcomes. The panel starts with providing a quick overview what applied learning programs for sustainability outcomes mean: that is ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Combining forces: Fostering sustainability collaboration between the city of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Purpose - This paper describes the sustainability partnership between the City of Vancouver and the University of British Columbia (UBC) and, in particular, the co-curricular Greenest City Scholars graduate student internship ...
- Posted Nov. 1, 2016
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A Guide for Applied Sustainability Learning Projects: Advancing sustainability outcomes on campus and in the community
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
This guide provides a step-by-step framework for how a new or existing applied learning for sustainability program can be systematically designed, built and scaled around two interconnected goals:
- Providing students ...
- Posted Oct. 8, 2016
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Learning while transforming: solution-oriented learning for urban sustainability in Phoenix, Arizona
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Conventional educational settings struggle with enabling students to acquire competence in collectively solving sustainability problems. Such competence is best conveyed in real-world learning settings. Solution-oriented sustainability learning (SOSL) programs create ...
- Posted May 24, 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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Infusing Sustainability into High-Impact Learning Practices at NC State University
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Learning doesn't just happen in the classroom. Research has shown that high-impact educational experiences complement classroom learning, increase student retention and engagement, and maximize the collegiate experience. NC State ...
- Posted June 16, 2015
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The Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
The Partnership for Action Learning in Sustainability, or PALS, is an innovative program at the University of Maryland that pairs faculty expertise and student ingenuity to tackle sustainability challenges facing ...
- Posted June 11, 2015
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The Sage Project at San Diego State University
- San Diego State University (CA)
The Sage Project is a partnership between San Diego State University (SDSU) and a local government in the San Diego region, connecting students and faculty with high-priority, high-need community projects ...
- Posted June 11, 2015
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UBC Sustainability Scholars Program
- University of British Columbia (BC)
Offered in collaboration with both on and off-campus sustainability partners, the UBC Sustainability Scholars Program is designed to provide UBC graduate level students - regardless of their academic discipline - practical sustainability ...
- Posted June 11, 2015
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