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Implementing an Undergraduate Sustainability Requirement at the University of Iowa
- University of Iowa (IA)
Join us to gain insight into how the University of Iowa was able to create and implement a campus-wide undergraduate course requirement for sustainability. This effort Began in the College ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Perspective Transformation Regarding Sustainability in Higher Education
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
This study examined transformative sustainability learning (TSL) by determining the occurrence of perspective transformation (PT) regarding sustainability in sustainability-focused courses offered at a public university. 131 students in two upper-division ...
- Posted June 15, 2023
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Integrating racial equity, social justice, and sustainability through general education learning outcome assessment
- University of Utah (UT)
In 2014, the University of Utah administration received a poignant letter from a group of passionate students suggesting that granting an undergraduate degree to any student without ensuring that they ...
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Ripon College Catalyst: Sustainable Futures Through General Curriculum
- Ripon College (WI)
Higher education will play an important role in equipping students with knowledge and competencies to address environmental and social problems as well as preparing them for civic engagement and the ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Integrating Sustainability into Campus Administration and Student Government
- University of Central Florida (FL)
This study outlines and portrays the ways by which the University of Central Florida's Office of Sustainability Initiatives (UCF SI) is partnering with the UCF Student Government (UCF SG ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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STARS Incorporation into Capability-Based Gen Ed Curriculum
- Eureka College (IL)
- AASHE (MA)
This session will cover incorporating STARS data collection AND report segments into an introductory sustainability course that fulfills a capability-based general education requirement (Sustainable Practices and Environmental Conscience). We will ...
- Posted Aug. 8, 2019
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KEEP Energy Education Certificate
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
The Energy Education Certificate is available to practicing K-12 teachers only and is tied to graduate level courses. The certificate reflects comprehensive professional development and experiences in energy content and ...
- Posted Feb. 13, 2019
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Integrating sustainability learning outcomes into a university curriculum: A case study of institutional dynamics
- University of Vermont (VT)
Higher education institutions increasingly have gained momentum in integrating sustainability into university curricula. The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the approval, implementation and management process of the new ...
- Posted Dec. 11, 2018
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Mathematics for Sustainability: A New General Education Course and Textbook
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Would you rather learn the quadratic equation or would you rather save the world? For many students in non-technical majors, college algebra or a related course serves as their (frequently ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Peace and Global Education Graduate Certificate
- University of San Diego (CA)
The Peace and Global Education Certificate is aimed at teaching the attitudes and skills necessary for peacemaking, replacing conflict with agreements based on mutually beneficial outcomes, and peace building, developing ...
- Posted June 29, 2018
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Achieving Both Breadth and Depth: How Sustainability Education Is Being Integrated Across All Undergraduate Courses at La Trobe University, Australia
- La Trobe University (Victoria)
In 2012 La Trobe University decided that every undergraduate student, across every discipline, would have significant and assessed experience of Sustainability Education (SE). The plan for achieving full coverage of ...
- Posted June 25, 2018
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Making Sustainability Part of Every Student’s Curriculum
- Anglia Ruskin University
Anglia Ruskin University (ARU) has made a corporate commitment to ensure that “sustainability will be a feature of all our students’ experience”. In order to address this goal ARU has ...
- Posted June 25, 2018
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Aiming for Full Coverage—Integrating Sustainability Education into All Undergraduate Courses at La Trobe University, Australia: Achievements, Lessons Learnt and Barriers Addressed
- La Trobe University (Victoria)
In 2012, La Trobe University committed to ensuring that every undergraduate student, across all disciplines, will have significant and assessed experience of three ‘Essentials’ of learning: Sustainability Thinking; Global Citizenship ...
- Posted June 20, 2018
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Climate change and higher education: Assessing factors that affect curriculum requirements
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Pervasive misinformation about climate change might be reduced if colleges were to include the topic within general education curriculum. This paper analyzes the general education (or “core”) curriculum in the ...
- Posted Feb. 12, 2018
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Integrating Sustainability Learning Outcomes Into a University Curriculum - A Case Study of Institutional Dynamics
- University of Vermont (VT)
The University of Vermont (UVM) adopted a learning-outcomes-based general education sustainability requirement in Fall 2015. The requirement is unique because sustainability is a non-traditional general education theme, and general education ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Catalyzing curricular coherence with a Sustainability Focus designation
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
The S Designation framework is a method of benchmarking sustainability curriculum and stimulating interdisciplinary dialogue to develop curricular coherence around topics of sustainability. The framework is an 'opt-in' process designed ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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A Co Curricular Course about Sustainability, Leadership, Civic Engagement, Integrity and Interculturality
- Universidad de Monterrey
As part of UDEM´s Formative Model, every student has to take 4 co-curricular courses. From these 4 courses, one is mandatory and they can choose the other 3. META ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Compass Curriculum: The Successful Implementation of Sustainability as a General Education Requirement
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs (CO)
In Fall 2014,sustainability was added to the General Education requirements at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. The new Compass Curriculum requires that all students, in all majors and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Delicate Balance: Requiring Capstone Sustainability Projects of all Students
- Green Mountain College (VT)
How can we effectively engage all students in applying their disciplinary strengths and their passions in projects that increase the sustainability of a community? For five years, Green Mountain College ...
- 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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Establishing Sustainability as a General Education Directive
- Southern Oregon University (OR)
Colleges and universities nationwide continue to struggle with strategies for integrating sustainability within higher education curricula. While many universities have encouraged faculty to develop one or more courses that introduce ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Incorporating Sustainability Into Undergraduate Education
- Northland College (WI)
Many colleges and universities in the U.S. have embraced the concept of sustainability in their facilities and operations. Many have also captured sustainability as part of their institutional mission ...
- 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 ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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From Faculty Colleges to General Education: Sustainability in the Curriculum at UW Oshkosh
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh is a comprehensive, master's-level public university that has made great strides in infusing sustainability into the curriculum over the past 5 years. Our campus ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Infusing Sustainability Through the General Education Curriculum
- Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)
As pressures on global and local systems mount, and as population and consumption increase world-wide, the imperative for sustainability education gains increasing urgency. More than educating those interested in, or ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Charting Pathway into a Sustainable Future: Reforming General Education
- California State University, Chico (CA)
The next generation will confront an increased number of global issues that interface the complexities of socioeconomic perspectives, environmental stability, poverty and development. Recently we undertook a general education reform ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Let's Get Serious about Integrating Sustainability into General Education: Strategies for Staff and Faculty
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
This session addresses the need to integrate sustainability into the compulsory curriculum of colleges and universities. Speakers - including sustainability officers and professors - will present proven strategies for changing the academic ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability learning outcomes for an interdisciplinary general education curriculum
- Portland State University (OR)
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Over the past 15 years sustainability has emerged as a prominent theme within Portland State University's interdisciplinary general education curriculum. For example, a web-based survey of faculty found that ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Strategies for "Greening" the General Education Curriculum
- West Virginia University at Parkersburg (WV)
Strategies will be provided with goals, objectives, and activities for "greening" the general education curriculum. This infusion approach results in a paradigm shift in student behaviors related to sustainable energy ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability and Furman's New Curriculum
- Furman University (SC)
Furman's Director of Sustainability and Environmental Education and its Provost will discuss various curricular initiatives developed by Furman University that make sustainability more integral to our learning environment. Furman ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Campus Sustainability Films in a General Education Science Course
- Furman University (SC)
Making students aware of and peaking their interests in campus environmental and sustainability initiatives can be difficult, given students wide range of interests and competing demands for their time. I ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability and General Education
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Universities, especially publically funded universities, have a responsibility to educate students about the world in which they live and the trends that are defining the world of the future. One ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Environmental Literacy and Sustainability as Core Requirements: Success Stories and Models
- Oakland Community College (MI)
At a number of colleges and universities, the core General Education requirements for all degrees include an in depth exposure to environmental literacy. Many colleges are also including a degree ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2016
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Instituting a sustainability general education requirement at San Francisco State University
- San Francisco State University (CA)
A group of San Francisco State faculty believed all SF State graduates in the 21st century should have a basic understanding of sustainability. We campaigned for a sustainability requirement to ...
- Posted June 9, 2015
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