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Higher Education: Features, Trends and Needs in Relation to Sustainability
- Technische Universiteit Delft
The progress of sustainability within higher education has steadily increased in focus over the last decade and has increasingly become a topic of academic research. With various scholars, journals and ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Reviewing the incidence and status of sustainability in degree programmes at Plymouth University
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
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This paper aims to present an overview of the design and implementation of a curriculum review undertaken at Plymouth University, UK, to gauge the incidence and status of sustainability ...
- Posted May 2, 2016
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Measuring the educational impacts of a graduate course on sustainable development
- Texas A&M University (TX)
While university‐level education is increasingly recognized as an important component of sustainable approaches to development, little empirical research has been done on the impact of sustainability education on student ...
- Posted April 29, 2016
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Applying Anthropology to the Campus Dining System: Reflections on Working with Community Food Assessments and the Real Food Challenge
- Oregon State University (OR)
When the Oregon Food Bank began conducting Community Food Assessments in 2009, they enlisted graduate students in Oregon State University's (OSU) applied anthropology program to examine the impact of ...
- Posted April 28, 2016
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The contribution of sustainability assessment to policy development in higher education
This article builds upon the experiences and results of the application of sustainability assessment instruments in higher education. First, a short overview of existing sustainability assessment tools will be provided ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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Getting an empirical hold of the sustainable university: a comparative analysis of evaluation frameworks across 12 contemporary sustainability assessment tools
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Although it is increasingly recognised that higher education institutions have to play a critical role in the progression towards a sustainable development, the question of what fields and issues universities ...
- Posted April 20, 2016
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International Centre for Integrated assessment and Sustainable development (ICIS)
- Maastricht University
ICIS, based in Maastricht University's Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, addresses complex issues facing the planet and its inhabitants. It aims to conduct research and provide education in the ...
- Posted April 20, 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 ...
- Posted April 11, 2016
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The State of Sustainability in Higher Education 2015: Emissions Metrics, Consumption Trends & Strategies for Success
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- Gordian (SC)
Over the past decade, campuses across North America have invested significant effort, attention, and money toward the key challenges of sustainability in higher education, which are embodied by the carbon ...
- Posted March 21, 2016
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Measuring Engagement of Student Population Through Assessment of Sustainability Knowledge: Behavior, Perceptions, and Attitudes
- Michigan State University (MI)
Michigan State University Campus Sustainability commissioned a Sustainability Knowledge Assessment. This assessment represents an initial effort to quantify knowledge of the broad and abstract concept of sustainability. By identifying factors ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Designing and Assessing Sustainability Learning Outcomes
- Portland State University (OR)
How can we ensure that our educational offerings lead to sustainability competencies? This workshop will support participants in designing learning outcomes (LOs) and assessment plans. The presenters' diverse perspectives make ...
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Five-Year Evolution of Campus Sustainability Programs
- Bentley University (MA)
- Boston University (MA)
Many campus sustainability programs around the country are coming of age. Those programs which started between the years of 2008-2011 are reaching a critical turning point where their ability to ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing the Kinnickinnick Project at River Falls: Sustainability Curriculum Transformation at Five Years
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
After five years of Sustainability Fellows Workshops, the sustainability curriculum at UWRF has grown to prominence with its own identity as The Kinnickinnick Project (named after the River Falls' local ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing student learning outcomes for sustainability
- University of South Dakota (SD)
Colleges and universities are increasingly developing sustainability majors, minors, certificates, and specializations. Because sustainability is an interdisciplinary area of study and coursework for sustainability programs often draws from multiple disciplines ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Plenary: Are we succeeding? 3 Approaches to Assessing Sustainability Education
- Green Mountain College (VT)
- Oakland Community College (MI)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Sustainability educators need to measure the impact of their programs but find few widely accepted methodologies for doing so. Panelists will describe three very different approaches for evaluating sustainability education ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Value of Measurement (At the Cost of Your Time?)
- Indiana State University (IN)
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
- AASHE (MA)
As sustainability programs on campuses of all sizes mature, the staff & committees at many institutions find themselves on the proverbial hamster wheel of measurement. While survey results, greenhouse gas ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing Sustainability Attitudes: A New Multi-Dimensional Measure
- Central College (IA)
The rise of sustainability curricula in higher education has coincided with increasing calls for academic assessment, and a variety of tools have been developed to measure sustainability literacy and attitudes ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing Sustainability Efforts: Examples and Opportunities
- Concordia College (NY)
Assessment is necessary to determine impact on students, but finding effective instruments to accurately measure change can be difficult. Our college has been actively involved in assessing student perception and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Progressing Toward Sustainability Literacy: Assessing Curricular and Co-Curricular Learning Outcomes for First-Year Students
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges (NY)
The Sustainable Living and Learning Community (SLLC) Program is a newly launched pilot program for first-year students, bringing together a group of faculty, staff, and students into a unique partnership ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Pursuing impact: Facilitating and assessing curricular partnerships that advance neighborhood sustainability
- Portland State University (OR)
Neighborhoods are advancing urban sustainability in powerful ways. In cities like Portland, Oregon, non-profits, businesses, government, and residents are learning that by working together they can effect more sustainable change ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Third Annual AASHE Workshop on Research Methods for Sustainability - Focus on Assessment
- University of Arkansas (AR)
AASHE 3rd WORKSHOP ON RESEARCH METHODS FOR SUSTAINABILITY FOCUS ON ASSESSEMENT Building on the success of previous workshops, this year, we have chosen to address methods and techniques that support ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability education: A campus-wide study guiding an all unit strategic approach at the University of Minnesota, Duluth
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
A team of faculty and staff who were working on sustainability education across the UMD campus conducted an all campus survey (N=1700) to meet the Chancellor's Strategic Initiative ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Secret Garden: Cultivating Sustainability Curriculum in Confined Spaces
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
In teacher education, curriculum has become prescriptive and confining due to a political shift, which has affected how schools of education prepare teacher candidates. There is now a focus on ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Measuring Attitudes of and Engagement with Sustainability on a Conservative Campus
- Utah State University (UT)
Having worked within sustainability offices at Utah State University (USU), we have learned the necessity of a knowledge-based approach to encouraging a new environmental ethic. We plan to bring such ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing the effectiveness of an undergraduate ESD course taught in Japan and Vietnam in fostering pro-sustainable outcomes
- Kyoto University
The 'Building a Sustainable Future: Principles and Challenges' course was developed by researchers at Kyoto University as part of a Japanese government-funded initiative to develop a widely replicable model approach ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Creative Assessment Strategies for Learning Outcomes
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Setting learning outcomes for student programs is easy, but figuring out how to measure what they learn has been a challenge for us at Ohio State. Come hear how we ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Surveying the Landscape of Sustainability Studies Programs
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
As the educational landscape of sustainability continues to emerge and transform, this presentation offers a significantly refined and expanded survey of Sustainability Studies and other similar programs in the United ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing the Culture of Sustainability
- University of Michigan (MI)
This session will provide an overview of efforts at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor (U-M) to develop a framework for assessing and advancing a culture of sustainability on campus. Culture ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Knowledge Assessment at California State University, Northridge
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
Colleges and universities across the globe are increasingly focusing their efforts on campus sustainability and related educational curricula. In conjunction with the Institute for Sustainability and the university sustainability curriculum ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The first assessment system for campus sustainability in Japan
- Hokkaido University (Hokkaido)
The first campus sustainability assessment system in Japan was created at Hokkaido University in 2013, which covered 4 categories of management, education and research, environment, and local community. STARS by ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing the impact of sustainability faculty learning communities
- University of Vermont (VT)
What are the necessary elements to create institutional change through infusing sustainability into the curriculum at a university of wide scope and scale? The University of Vermont (UVM) Sustainability Faculty ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Literacy--Assessment Development by Carl Obermiller & April Atwood
- Seattle University (WA)
Introduction This presentation will provide an overview of the ‘measuring sustainability literacy’ project that is underway at Seattle University. A sustainability literacy scale (SUstlit) has been developed, tested, and refined ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability in Gen Ed After 1 Year: Assessment and Challenges
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
In Fall 2013, the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh initiated a new general education program called the University Studies Program (USP) that incorporated sustainability as one of its three “signature questions ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Designing and Assessing Learning Outcomes in Co-curricular Sustainability Programs
- Portland State University (OR)
In recent years, co-curricular sustainability programs have been established at many higher education institutions. However, few such programs have developed learning outcomes (LOs) or assessment processes to measure the types ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The Impact of Education for Sustainability
- Green Mountain College (VT)
To justify the integration of sustainability education (EfS) across the curriculum and co-curriculum, we need better information about its impact on student engagement and on graduates’ life choices. In fall ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Connect curriculum & co-curriculum to assess engagement campus-wide
- Portland State University (OR)
Student learning occurs in a variety of ways and in a variety of places on campus. However, most measurements of student learning and engagement around sustainability are assessed separately for ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Dynamic Assessment of Sustainability Parameters in Residential Construction: A Case Study
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (AB)
The residential construction industry in Canada is recognizing and adopting sustainable construction practices. With no recognized industry sustainability parameter standards and benchmarks, builders are challenged to effectively measure the sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Using Competencies in the Design and Assessment of Sustainability Programs
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
At Penn State University, the Sustainability Leadership Minor has been administered using a list of sustainability and leadership competencies that are the basis of the expectations of the program. Now ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Measure That! Integrating Sustainability into your Institutional Assessment
- Texas A&M University (TX)
Institutions across the county depend on their status as accredited organizations. While the accrediting agencies are not yet requiring schools to engage in sustainability, our institution looked for a way ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing Undergraduate Sustainability Knowledge Campus Wide: From design to implementation and analysis
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
Many universities and colleges have adopted goals to increase the knowledge and awareness of sustainability concepts and issues among their student populations. To this end, more and more sustainability themed ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Adaptable model to assess sustainability in higher education: Application to five Chilean institutions
- Pontifical Catholic University of Chile
The present study has two main objectives. In first place, the development of a model, the Adaptable model for Assessing Sustainability (AMAS), to assess the degree of implementation of sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Knowing the Full Story: Creating a Blueprint for Effective Program Evaluation
- Brown University (RI)
- GreenerU (MA)
There is so much talk about the value of sustainability outreach programs, yet there is little data which proves their value. In order to make sure the hard work many ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Projects Assessment Tool (SPAT)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The Sustainability Projects Assessment Tool (SPAT) is an automated decision support program that seeks to identify total cost of ownership of sustainability projects, and analyzes three aspects: assessment of environmental ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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In Front of the Mirror: Assessing Curricular Change
- California State University, Chico (CA)
California State University, Chico undertook a general education reform, providing a unique opportunity to craft a new general education pathway with the intent of preparing students for challenges of the ...
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“You Can’t Measure That!” Measuring Affective Learning Outcomes in an Undergraduate Urban Sustainability Course
- University of Louisville (KY)
Traditional classroom assessments are unable to measure students’ development of the affective competencies and behavioral dispositions implicit in education for sustainability. This original research addresses the question of how to ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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How can we know that our educational efforts are working?
- University of Otago (Otago)
Some higher education institutions aspire to transform students into global citizens, able and willing to address the sustainability needs of the planet. Yet these institutions have limited capacity to evaluate ...
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Endowment Transparency at Duke: a Qualitative Analysis of Effects on Environmental Sustainability and Assessment of Strategies
- Duke University (NC)
The transparency of a university's endowment affects the responsibility of its investment decisions. After researching Duke University's endowment and examining numerous protests against Duke's irresponsible investments, I ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing Sustainability Learning Outcomes at Two Community Colleges
- Delta College (MI)
Assessing sustainability and general education outcomes is a tough nut to crack. Follow two community college academic professionals along their journey to discover an efficient and effective assessment tool. Both ...
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Investigating Sustainability-Focused Courses and their Impact on Student Learning
- H&A Columbus-UBC
With the growing need for sustainability education, universities are looked upon for leadership to provide and integrate sustainability teaching and learning opportunities. The University of British Columbia's (UBC) vision ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing Sustainability Literacy: An Instrument to Measure Knowledge of Environmental, Economic, and Social Sustainability
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Properly assessing the sustainability literacy of an institution's student body is an important means of understanding the current level of student knowledge, gauging the effectiveness of sustainability focused courses ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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