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A New Alliance for Service-Learning and Community Engagement: Cultivating Citizens with an Ecocentric Vision of Justice
- Wingate University (NC)
A core conviction that should inform service-learning and community engagement (SLCE) courses is that we cannot have thriving human communities, robust democratic citizenship, and authentic community/civic engagement when the ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2019
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Civic and Community Engagement Minor
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
The minor in Civic and Community Engagement is an interdisciplinary program that provides students with the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values to engage as citizens and active community members in ...
- Posted Jan. 14, 2019
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The University, Neighborhood Revitalization, and Civic Engagement: Toward Civic Engagement 3.0
- SUNY Buffalo State (NY)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
This essay analyzes and syntheses key theories and concepts on neighborhood change from the literature on anchor institutions, university engagement, gentrification, neighborhood effects, Cold War, Black liberation studies, urban political ...
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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Bridging barriers to advance global sustainability
- Columbia University (NY)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
- University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna
- SEA Education Association (MA)
Academic enterprises seeking to support society’s efforts to achieve global sustainability need to change their legacy reward systems. We need new structures to foster knowledge that is deeply integrated ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2018
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Localizing UN Sustainable Development Goals in Hawaii: The Community as our Living Laboratory
- Hawaii Pacific University (HI)
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
The 2018 State of Hawaii legislative session saw the introduction of bills to codify the UN SDG framework at the local level. Hawaii has a long history of sustainability, and ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Urban Forestry and Community Engagement - the Chemis-tree of Successful Partnerships
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) is an urban research university located in downtown Richmond, Virginia. With greenhouse gas mitigation goals looming, VCU established the VCU Urban Forestry Collaborative (VUFC) - a unique ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Building a Bigger Table: Engaging Communities on Food Security
- College of Charleston (SC)
On our campus, and in the surrounding community, there appears to be a growing urge for increased engagement and 'silo-busting.' One of the largest focal points for this is food ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Think Outside: Educating about Conservation and Race in the Great Outdoors
- Messiah College (PA)
- Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources (PA)
We need multi-lateral participation to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) outlined by the UN; however, the narrative of environmental protection, and the subsequent sustainability movement, is dominated by a ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Service and Community Engaged Learning for Social and Environmental Justice
- Champlain College (VT)
- Southern Oregon University (OR)
- University of Hawaii Kapiolani Community College (HI)
- Villanova University (PA)
Service-Learning / Community Engaged Learning is a common practice in higher education and is increasingly found being paired with sustainability. This networking session will allow practitioners to share best practices, learn ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Organizing a Campus-Community Resilience Building Workshop
- Second Nature (MA)
- The Nature Conservancy (VA)
This workshop will train participants in how to organize and facilitate a Community Resilience Building (CRB) Workshop. The CRB Workshop is a community-driven process, rich with information, experience, and dialogue ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Addressing Sustainable Development Goals: Non-profit, Campus and Community Collaborations
- Portland Community College (OR)
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
With a theme of 'Global Goals: Rising to the Challenge,' this year's conference examines the role of higher education in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This workshop ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Bridging the gap: Community Engagement Programs, Sustainability, and the SDGs
- Georgia Southern University (GA)
During this session participants will gain an understanding of how alternative breaks can support and collaborate with sustainability initiatives towards the SDGs. How do sustainability and community engagement offices engage ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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The Campus-Community Urban Sustainability Program at LIU Brooklyn
- Long Island University Brooklyn Campus (NY)
The Brooklyn campus of Long Island University (LIU) has recently established a Campus-Community Urban Sustainability Program (CUSP) with the support of a Humanities Connections grant from the National Endowment for ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Learning From the Past to Inform the Future: Leveraging Campus-Community Partnerships With Dialogue
- Slippery Rock University (PA)
Achieving complex sustainable development goals that integrate human and natural systems, including health and wellbeing as well as sustainable cities and communities, requires open and transparent collaboration with stakeholders. At ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Sustainability and engagement: strange bedfellows in the undergraduate textbook
- Michigan State University (MI)
- Pacific University (OR)
This paper aims to examine the textual coverage of the topic of public engagement in leading English language sustainability textbooks.
In this paper, the authors’ findings are based on a ...
- Posted Oct. 23, 2018
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Resilient and Sustainable Communities Minor
- Green Mountain College (VT)
Global ecological and social changes resulting from climate disruption, human population growth, and recourse depletion create unprecedented challenges for communities around the world. Understanding how communities can adapt to these ...
- Posted Oct. 15, 2018
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Envirome Institute
- University of Louisville (KY)
The Envirome Institute pioneers a new, interdependent vision of health, supports research on the effects of the environment on health, and promotes holistic scholarship, locally and globally.
Within the University ...
- Posted July 13, 2018
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Certificate in Sustainable Community Planning
- Temple University (PA)
The core courses in the graduate certificate in Sustainable Community Planning program introduce students to the broad range of issues and topics relevant to planning for sustainable development of our ...
- Posted June 28, 2018
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Paperbark Literary Magazine
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Paperbark Literary Magazine is an interdisciplinary journal of creativity and sustainability publishing art, writing, photography, poetry, science journalism, interviews, and other creative content both in print and online at paperbarkmag ...
- Posted May 21, 2018
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Undergraduate Learning through Engaged Scholarship and University-Community Partnerships
- College of William & Mary (VA)
- University of Georgia (GA)
The impact of university–community partnerships and involvement in engaged scholarship on student learning was examined through in-depth interviews with undergraduate members of a student-led, community-based research organization at a ...
- Posted May 14, 2018
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Sustainability: Why Universities Can Lead by Example
- North Central College (IL)
This TEDx Talk describes the benefits of adopting more energy-efficient systems and technology on college campuses. Such practices pay off for these institutions in the long run while also helping ...
- Posted April 23, 2018
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Risk & Community Resilience (Interdisciplinary MS)
- University of Alberta (AB)
This degree program examines different aspects of social-ecological relations, challenging us to think about how peoples, locally and globally, see and respond to changes in their environment including those associated ...
- Posted April 12, 2018
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Promoting Sustainability Science on Campus: Renewable Energy Workshops Hosted at Kean University in New Jersey
- Kean University (NJ)
The project provides workshops for high school/college students and educators to learn the basics, application, and impacts of renewable energy through hands-on activities and software tools. The workshops cover ...
- Posted April 3, 2018
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Impact of a Participatory Analysis of a Campus Sustainability Social Network: A Case Study of Emory University
- Emory University (GA)
Social network analysis makes visible the invisible connections and flows that underlie complex social relationships. Applied organizational researchers have used social network analysis to assess and improve organizational and leadership ...
- Posted March 22, 2018
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Faculty Development for Advancing Community Engagement in Higher Education: Current Trends and Future Directions
- University of San Francisco (CA)
This research involved the conduct of a conceptual review of 28 refereed journal articles and a survey of campus centers for community engagement staff to identify salient features and trends ...
- Posted Feb. 28, 2018
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Evaluating the Theory and Outcomes of the Teen Advocates for Sustainability Corps (TASC) Summit
- New York University (NY)
The attached research was written as my thesis for a Master of Arts in Environmental Conservation Education, from New York University. It analyzes an environmental advocacy program I developed for ...
- Posted Jan. 5, 2018
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Evaluating the engagement of universities in capacity building for sustainable development in local communities
- Bournemouth University (Dorset)
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- University of Beira Interior
- University of Passo Fundo
Universities have the potential to play a leading role in enabling communities to develop more sustainable ways of living and working however, sustainable communities may only emerge with facilitation, community ...
- Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Do your neighbors affect your bicycling choice? A spatial probit model for bicycling to The Ohio State University
- California State University, Fresno (CA)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
Neighborhood social effects have recently become a focus of interest in transportation research, whereby transportation mode choice is not only affected by an individual’s characteristics and transportation system conditions ...
- Posted Dec. 12, 2017
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Examining the literature to reveal the nature of community EE/ESD programs and research
- Denison University (OH)
Interest in community environmental education (EE) and community education for sustainable development (ESD) is increasing, as evidenced by the increase in studies examining community EE/ESD approaches and NAAEE’s ...
- Posted Dec. 7, 2017
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Working in the Ivory Tower: Breaking Down the Walls of Academia
- Bemidji State University (MN)
Whether public or private, 2-year or 4-year, we all work in institutions of higher learning. Simply because of where we work, we may be at an advantage or disadvantage when ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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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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Community Engagement and Sustainable Buildings: A New Course from Pima Community College, Tucson 2030 District, and ENERGY STAR
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
This session will explore a recent successful collaboration between three entities to create a new community-focused sustainability course in Tucson, AZ: 'Sustainability and Building Performance - Foundations, Best Practices, and Implementation ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Advancing Innovation through Sustainability Research and Scholarship
- Portland Community College (OR)
During this monumental time in history, it is essential to be educated, connect with good people, find hope, and discover new ways to make a difference. To do so, the ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Know Your Impact: Guide to Environmentally Conscious Community Development
- New York University (NY)
Creating a norm of sustainability on campus is no easy task, but the NYU EcoReps have committed themselves to forming thoughtful community-based programming in the hopes of finding new ways ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Empowering Community Engagement Through Event Organization: Connecticut Campus Sustainability Week
- Eastern Connecticut State University (CT)
- Yale University (CT)
Encompassing all parts of university life, sustainability can be a unifying force on college campuses. Since 2015, Connecticut universities have collaborated on Campus Sustainability Week, a week-long celebration held in ...
- 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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Using Compost to Seek Green Justice Beyond the Campus
- University of Arizona (AZ)
The University of Arizona Compost Cats is an organization that works to divert organic waste from landfills and converts it into valuable soil amendment for Southern Arizona's arid soils ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Developing Community Solidarity Through Beekeeping
- Central Community College (NE)
This presentation will cover how a college beekeeping course resulted in an informed community of concerned honey bee supporters. Central Community College started a beekeeping course that drew participants from ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Oral History and Sustainability: Campus and Community Engagement Through Student Research in the Humanities
- Central College (IA)
This session introduces oral history as a tool for students to investigate and influence the cultures of sustainability on campus and in the community. Since 2015, Central College in Pella ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Engaged Scholarship with Community Partners: What We Can Learn From our Peers' Greenhouse Gases
- Colgate University (NY)
Through the class Sustainability & Climate Action Planning for Local Government at Colgate University, students engaged in community projects, one of which aimed to benchmark the University among its peer ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Gathering at the Table: Cultivating Future Leaders of a Thriving Community Food System
- University of Kentucky (KY)
Gathering at the Table brings together passionate student leaders, community food justice advocates, and eaters of all kinds to grow a sustainable, community food system. It is an innovative program ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Engaging Students and Community: Creating Safe Spaces through Community Sensitivity Training Programs
- Furman University (SC)
Furman University and the David E. Shi Center for Sustainability work to create a student experience that promotes real world student learning experiences and meets community needs. In order to ...
- 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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Higher Education’s Anchor Mission: Measuring Place-Based Engagement
- Cleveland State University (OH)
- SUNY Buffalo State (NY)
- Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark Campus (NJ)
- Drexel University (PA)
- Virginia Commonwealth University (VA)
- University of Missouri-St. Louis (MO)
The report examines how an ongoing—and expanding—effort to track the impact of colleges and universities on the financial and social well-being of their surrounding neighborhoods is helping these ...
- Posted Oct. 25, 2017
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Sustainability Scholar 2015 - University of Alberta
- University of Alberta (AB)
Research Report - Executive Summary
The Sustainability Scholars program provides University of Alberta graduate students opportunities to work on applied research projects with the City of Edmonton, campus units and other ...
- Posted Oct. 10, 2017
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University of California Climate Lab, Video Series Episode Six: Scientists really aren't the best champions of climate science
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
This is the sixth episode of Climate Lab, a six-part series produced by the University of California in partnership with Vox. Hosted by Emmy-nominated conservation scientist Dr. M. Sanjayan, the ...
- Posted May 25, 2017
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Sustainability Weekend Conference, Carnegie Mellon University
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
‘Sustainability Weekend’ is a student-initiative held on Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh, PA, with the goal to promote inter-disciplinary conversations to raise awareness about the many sustainability issues surrounding ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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SFU’s 20-Year Sustainability Vision and Goals Case Study Submission
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
On the 50th Anniversary of the institution, SFU launched an ambitious engagement process to map out and envision what a “sustainable SFU” would look like in 20 years. The yearlong ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Sustainability Certificate Program: Creating Community through Cohorts
- University of Georgia (GA)
The Certificate in Sustainability will enhance opportunities for integrative, applied learning in interdisciplinary settings as well as prepare students to address difficult global sustainability issues. The certificate will also work ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Integrating Sustainability with Education and Community Engagement at USF
- University of South Florida (FL)
The University of South Florida's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering has created several community and international programs for students to engage in sustainability projects. Three projects explored in ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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