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Employing the SDGs to Enhance University Research and Education Sustainability Objectives
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- University of California, Davis (CA)
- University of Southern California (CA)
- AASHE (PA)
Although the SDGs are a global framework, there is not a one-size-fits-all approach to how universities employ them to enhance research, education, and operational sustainability objectives. The purpose of this ...
- Posted Oct. 17, 2022
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University of New Hampshire: B Impact Clinic
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
B Impact Clinic - Launched in 2019 by the University of New Hampshire Sustainability Institute, the B Impact Clinic gathers teams of undergraduate students from different areas of study to serve ...
- Posted Aug. 1, 2022
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Butler University Social Justice and Vocational Fellowship
- Butler University (IN)
Social Justice and Diversity Vocational Fellowship - The Social Justice and Diversity (SJD) Vocation Fellowship at Butler University is a collaboration between the Center for Faith and Vocation, the Social Justice ...
- Posted July 27, 2022
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Leveraging Strategic Partnerships to Advance Sustainability Education
- University of British Columbia (BC)
- AASHE (PA)
What do we need to do to take sustainability education to the next level? How do we make sustainability learning ubiquitous in a university student’s learning journey while increasing ...
- Posted July 18, 2022
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Holistic integration of sustainability at universities: Evidences from Colombia
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- Universidad EAFIT (Antioquia)
- Universidad de Medellin
Education for sustainable development in universities provides the university’s community (i.e. students, administrative and academic staff) with the skills and capabilities needed to contribute to the achievement of ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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The Challenge of Teacher Training in the 2030 Agenda Framework Using Geotechnologies
- Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia – UNED
- Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Social evolution, globalization, and advances in technology are making it increasingly necessary to offer complete and comprehensive teacher training. This training should produce citizens who are concerned about the planet ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Innovation for environmental sustainability: longitudinal effects of an education for sustainable development intervention on university students’ pro-environmentalism
- University of Zaragoza
Although education for sustainable development (ESD) is a key tool in the transition to a more sustainable society, its integration in higher education remains scarce. One reason for this is ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Sustainability in Higher Education
- University of Aveiro
Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information ...
- Posted April 25, 2022
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Advising for Sustainability
- West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)
All campus spaces and interactions are pedagogical, and since NACADA, the main professional organization devoted to academic advising, maintains that advising is teaching, we can use advising as a powerful ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Let’s Talk about Sustainability Across the Curriculum!
- Western Washington University (WA)
This session is intended as a dialogue for faculty, staff, students, or administrators interested in incorporating or expanding sustainability across the curriculum in your courses or at your institution. We ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Transformative Sustainability Learning: An Affective Photovoice Lens
- Texas A&M University-Commerce (TX)
- University of Wisconsin-Platteville (WI)
This presentation shares the results of a doctoral dissertation in an educational sustainability program. The purpose was to understand the learning experiences and the role of affect for students in ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Transformational Education or Transforming Education?
- University of South Dakota (SD)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
In order to mobilize a just transition, transformation in how we think, act and our sense of being in the world envisioning a holistic approach of head, hands and heart ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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What Motivates Students to Be Sustainability Change Agents in the Face of Adversity?
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The world faces significant challenges that require transformative changes facilitated by Sustainability Change Agents (SCAs). Universities around the world have explicitly taken up the responsibility of developing in students the ...
- Posted Oct. 29, 2021
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Central Sustainability
- Central Michigan University (MI)
Prior to 2020, Central Michigan University (CMU) lacked an Office of Sustainability, or any structures which ensured the pursuit of sustainability initiatives on campus and in the community. Two student ...
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Educated professionals of sustainability and the dimensions of practices
- University of Helsinki
- Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) (Uusimaa)
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to expand the competence-led structuring and understanding of sustainability education by analysing the practices of professional individuals who have completed university education geared ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Reimagining global citizenship education for a volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world
- University of British Columbia (BC)
In this article, I propose the need to reimagine global citizenship education for a VUCA world: volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. In this context, it remains unclear what kind of ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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A sustainability internship program: strategies for creating student stewards for sustainability
- Western Michigan University (MI)
The purpose of this paper is to explore the strategies and an effective model for creating and implementing a sustainability internship program at a university campus.
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Assessing Undergraduate Sustainability Knowledge at California Polytechnic State University
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
Sustainability education has become an important focus of many higher education institutions (HEIs), with the inclusion of many sustainability-related learning objectives for undergraduate students. As sustainability is a new, rising ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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How to run a sustainability science research group sustainably?
- University of Kassel
- University of Turku
- University of Hohenheim
Rigorous sustainability science includes addressing pressing real-world problems, weaving multiple knowledge systems, and striving for transformative change. However, these key attributes of sustainability science often conflict with university structures and ...
- Posted April 23, 2021
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What Ought to Be Done to Promote Education for Sustainability in Teacher Education?
- James Cook University (Queensland)
Teachers are major players in the development of future citizens who have the knowledge, understanding, skills, values and dispositions to respond to existential threats such as climate change, land degradation ...
- Posted April 22, 2021
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The paradox model: towards a conceptual framework for engaging with sustainability in higher education
- Canterbury Christ Church University
The growing awareness of climate change, biodiversity loss and the wider global environmental emergency has led to calls for decisive and immediate action from all sections of society. This paper ...
- Posted April 21, 2021
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A matter of connection: The 4 Cs of learning in pre-service teacher education for sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
Teacher education for sustainability (TEfS) aims to prepare future educators for their role as societal change agents by developing in them specific sustainability competencies. Whereas previous literature has dealt extensively ...
- Posted April 8, 2021
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Translating green economy concepts into practice: ideas pitches as learning tools for sustainability education
- Universität Trier
The urgency of the current climate crisis emphasizes the need for university graduates equipped with relevant knowledge and skills to tackle environmental and social problems such as material consumption, environmental ...
- Posted Feb. 17, 2021
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Perceptions of interconnected sustainability: Students’ narratives bridging transition and education
- University of Helsinki
As sustainability becomes a focal point and important aspect of educational development in several disciplines and universities globally, it is important to critically reflect on the different utilisations of sustainability ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Investigation of the attitudes of first-year-students towards sustainability and environmental awareness at Széchenyi István University
- Széchenyi István University
At the Apáczai Csere János Faculty, we have been teaching environmental and sustainability education in teacher training for over 20 years. Trainee teacher are prepared for their future profession - including ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Approaches to SDG-Based Curricular Pathways and Research Communities
- AASHE (PA)
- University of Toronto (ON)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
Universities are increasingly being called to develop integrative approaches toward achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in their research, educational, and operational capacities. This webinar will present on ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2020
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Sustainability Education in the Food-Energy-Water-Nexus
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
- AASHE (PA)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
Worldwide, there has been growing interest in research, education, and discourse around the FEW-Nexus, which serves as a framework to describe and aid in addressing complex coupled human-natural systems and ...
- Posted Aug. 27, 2020
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Engaging Students in Citizen Science: Guiding Inquiry to Action
- Teachers College, Columbia University (NY)
The webinar series -- Thinking Global, Educating Local -- is intended to serve as professional development for educators who are interested in reducing the ecological footprint of their school and enhancing their ...
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Sustainability Education as a Pathway to Minority Participation in STEM
- Columbia University (NY)
Sustainability education offers higher education institutions opportunities to broaden the participation of groups traditionally underrepresented in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) fields. This chapter focuses on an exploratory ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Educating for Sustainability: The Crucial Role of the Tertiary Sector
- Baden-Württemberg Cooperative State University/Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg (Stuttgart)
The Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations represent a universal response to current global challenges that include climate change, poverty, political instability and the massive displacement of people worldwide ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Putting sustainability research into practice on the university campus: An example from a Caribbean small island state
- University of Zurich
- University of Aruba
Despite increasing efforts to incorporate sustainability in curricula and practices of institutions of higher education, effective implementation remains challenging. The purpose of this study is to present an approach to ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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A Multi-Perspective Reflection on How Indigenous Knowledge and Related Ideas Can Improve Science Education for Sustainability
- Universität Bremen
- Malmö University
Indigenous knowledge provides specific views of the world held by various indigenous peoples. It offers different views on nature and science that generally differ from traditional Western science. Futhermore, it ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Education for sustainability in business and management studies: learning history of the GoGreen Pilot'12
- Anglia Ruskin University
This doctoral study aims at investigating the contribution of the GoGreen Pilot’12 project in the process of embedding education for sustainability (EfS) in business and management studies in the ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Bringing an entrepreneurial focus to sustainability education: A teaching framework based on content analysis
- Nord University
- Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia do Rio Grande do Sul (IFRS) - Campus Viamão (RS)
Research on sustainability education has neglected to integrate entrepreneurial skills into other relevant competences such as foresight, complex problem-solving, and interdisciplinarity. Previous research highlights possible convergences between sustainability education and ...
- Posted May 12, 2020
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Integrating perspectives from indigenous knowledge and Western science in secondary and higher chemistry learning to contribute to sustainability education
- Universität Bremen
- Universitas Sultan Ageng Tirtayasa (Banten)
In this paper, we suggest integrating perspectives from indigenous and Western science into chemistry learning. Doing so is suggested to enhance students' views on sustainability issues. Integrating indigenous and Western ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Using sustainability education to enhance a sense of belonging and community among first-year college students
- Hobart and William Smith Colleges (NY)
On campuses across the world, faculty, staff, and administrators continue to wrestle with how best to foster a stronger sense of belonging and community among first-year college students. Research in ...
- Posted April 17, 2020
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Analysis of sustainability presence in Spanish higher education
- Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya
- University of Cadiz
This paper aims to analyze the presence of sustainability in 16 Spanish higher education curricula in the fields of education and engineering.
- Posted March 6, 2020
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Education for sustainability: Fostering a more conscious society and transformation towards sustainability
- Lund University
Current approaches to sustainability science and education focus on (assessing and addressing) the external world of ecosystems, wider socio-economic structures, technology and governance dynamics. A major shortcoming of such approaches ...
- Posted March 6, 2020
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Sustainability 101: Guiding Students on a Sustainability Journey
- University of Alberta (AB)
There have been many rigorous discussions about the purpose of sustainability education and the sets of learning objectives, learning outcomes or competencies that will best serve this purpose. Some scholars ...
- Posted March 6, 2020
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An Issue of Scale: The Challenge of Time, Space and Multitude in Sustainability and Geography Education
- University of Helsinki
- University of Stavanger
The field of geography is important for any sustainability education. The aim of geography education is to enable students to understand the environment, its influence on human activity, and how ...
- Posted March 6, 2020
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Understanding students’ perception of sustainability in architecture education: A comparison among universities in three different continents
- University of Texas at San Antonio (TX)
- University of Auckland
- CEU Universidad Cardenal Herrera (Valencia)
Educational institutions around the globe have taken definitive steps to curtail the increasing dependence on energy in the built environment by promoting the education of sustainability-minded professionals. Since a large ...
- Posted March 6, 2020
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Higher Education for Sustainability: Seeking Intellectual Independence in Aotearoa New Zealand
- University of Otago (Otago)
This book explores how higher education and sustainability interact in New Zealand, and argues that higher education at present may be contributing as much to unsustainability as it does to ...
- Posted Feb. 3, 2020
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Competencies and Pedagogies for Sustainability Education: A Roadmap for Sustainability Studies Program Development in Colleges and Universities
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
Sustainability studies educators in colleges and universities must identify and teach the knowledge, skills, and abilities their graduates will most need to advance sustainability while confronting perhaps the most serious ...
- Posted Feb. 3, 2020
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Reflective Practices in Sustainability Education
- Saint Joseph's College - ME (ME)
The more we learn about the climate crisis and its far-reaching impacts, the harder they become to negotiate. Learners of all ages express anxiety and fear about circumstances beyond their ...
- Posted Dec. 12, 2019
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Foodies in Sustainability Education
- Portland Community College (OR)
In this workshop we will connect and exchange ideas on how best to utilize food to teach sustainability across disciplines. Food has a central place in individual lives, community culture ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Sustainability in Higher Education
- Elsevier
Support in higher education is an emerging area of great interest to professors, researchers and students in academic institutions. Sustainability in Higher Education provides discussions on the exchange of information ...
- Posted Nov. 6, 2019
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Interacting Pedagogies: A Review and Framework for Sustainability Education
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Although the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development (2005–2014) was a period of rapid pedagogical revitalization and innovation, much sustainability education today is still delivered using transmissive and instrumental ...
- Posted July 19, 2019
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Why and how do universities work for sustainability in higher education (HE)?
- Lund University
- Malmö University
The purpose of this paper is to open up a discussion about the roles and responsibilities of universities in society. The vision of the Regional Centre of Expertise (RCE) Skane ...
- Posted May 22, 2019
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Founder, Students on Sustainability
- University of Calgary (AB)
I founded Students on Sustainability, a student society at the University of Calgary that educates grade school students on sustainability topics linked to climate change, and supports student action projects ...
- Posted May 13, 2019
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Universities responding to the call for sustainability: A typology of sustainability centres
- University of Helsinki
Universities worldwide are experiencing a growing trend to respond to the need for sustainability. Sustainability centres are one key aspect in the sustainability transitions of universities. Until currently, these centres ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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