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Integrating Sustainability Plans and Capital Campaigns
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- AASHE (PA)
Taking sustainability to the next level, for many higher education institutions, requires a strategic, long-range, and comprehensive sustainability plan. The process by which you develop content, engage the campus community ...
- Posted March 1, 2023
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Leadership for Social Justice Concentration
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
The Leadership for Social Justice concentration helps students anticipate and begin preparing for the full arc of a career in which successful community organizing requires them to institutionalize the changes ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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The six dimensions of collective leadership that advance sustainability objectives: rethinking what it means to be an academic leader
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Iowa State University (IA)
- Northeastern University (MA)
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Salisbury University (MD)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
- McGill University (QC)
- University of British Columbia Okanagan (BC)
- National Geographic Society (DC)
- TREE Foundation (FL)
Solutions to our most pressing environmental problems demand the development and application of leadership skills that are not typically fostered in traditional academic programs: skills that advance new transdisciplinary approaches ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Embracing higher education leadership in sustainability: A systematic review
- Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha
Education has long been praised for its economic benefits, which stem from the developed technical skills and improved health conditions it promotes. Nonetheless, improving the quality of education, including sustainability ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Developing a Framework for Understanding the Personal Motivations of Sustainability Leaders
- University of Surrey
- Ateneo de Manila University
This study explores the initial and sustaining motivations that drive leaders to pursue sustainability as a profession or vocation. Exploratory interviews were conducted with 16 sustainability leaders in the Philippines ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Learning for the Future: Exploring Effective Characteristics of Sustainability Leadership Programs in Higher Education
- Thompson Rivers University (BC)
In response to global environmental, economic, and social issues, universities and colleges have begun to create and expand leadership courses and programs that aspire to foster sustainability change agents. This ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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A Core Curriculum for Sustainability Leadership
- Stanford University (CA)
In response to the scale, complexity, and urgency of the sustainability challenges societies face, there has been both rapid growth in the broad field of sustainability science and technology, as ...
- Posted April 28, 2022
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Improving Holistic Sustainability through Complexity Leadership
- Western University (ON)
This Organizational Improvement Plan (OIP) outlines a planned change to improve decision-making spaces and processes-related sustainability. The OIP details a problem of practice examining how to incorporate holistic sustainability into ...
- Posted March 10, 2022
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Leadership & Sustainability in Action: A Practitioner's Case for Integrated Teaching
- Florida State University (FL)
- Harvard University (MA)
At colleges and universities all over the United States, instructors of leadership courses argue that they teach students about equitable, healthy leadership and prepare the next generation of leaders to ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Summarizing Your STARS Report for Senior Leadership
- Boston University (MA)
- AASHE (PA)
Building off of the “Conversations on STARS as a Strategic Tool for Advancing Sustainability” 2020 GCSHE presentation, this webinar will dive into the creation of the STARS Report Summary (presented ...
- Posted Dec. 9, 2021
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Bold Leadership and the Refugee Crisis
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Minnesota State University Moorhead (MN)
Bold leaders are needed to address the current global refugee crisis. Through our interactive presentation we will provide attendees the information they need to become those leaders. We will walk ...
- 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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Developing Artful Leadership to Foster Sustainability at UW Oshkosh and Beyond
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
This project titled Developing Artful Leadership to Foster Sustainability at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (UW Oshkosh) and Beyond was a research project that utilized the fluidity of interdisciplinary application of ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Jungle Navigation: Leadership Engagement Without Process or Procedure
- University of Delaware (DE)
One of the most common challenges for Sustainability Professionals is opening lines of communication and engagement with campus leadership in institutions where such processes and procedures do not exist. How ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Staying Green While Staying Woke: Creating Inclusive Sustainability Communities in Higher Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Equity is one of the pillars of sustainability. While there is more attention to climate and environmental justice in our field today, much of the work in sustainability spaces tends ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Turnaround Leadership for Sustainability in Higher Education
- Western Sydney University (NSW)
- Australian National University
Higher Education around the world is at a cross-road as a wide range of change forces bear down upon it. These include a complex, interlocked and rapidly unfolding set of ...
- Posted May 13, 2021
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Contemplative Practices in Higher Education for Sustainable Development: An exploration of their role for moving society towards sustainability
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
In order for future sustainability leaders to stand a chance at tackling the sustainability challenge, they need to be skilled and capable enough to cope with them. Higher education for ...
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Educational contexts and designs for cultivating leaders capable of addressing the wicked issues of sustainability transitions.
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
The ongoing sustainability crisis offer numerous, multifaced societal challenges as a result of the ongoing degradation of socio-ecological systems by human activity causing massive ecological damage and human suffering. Overcoming ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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Conference spaces as emotional sites for becoming campus sustainability leaders
- University of Vermont (VT)
This paper applies a feminist political ecology approach to ask: How do sustainability in higher education (SHE) conference events co-produce the subjectivities and expertise of campus sustainability professionals (CSPs) emotionally ...
- Posted May 4, 2021
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A Resource-Efficient Modular Course Design for Co-Teaching Integrated Sustainability in Higher Education: Developing the Next Generation of Entrepreneurial Leaders
- Babson College (MA)
Society faces mounting pressures related to economic growth, social injustice, and environmental degradation. Building upon scholarly consensus regarding the necessity of multidisciplinary approaches to address such complex problems, the entrepreneurship ...
- Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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The Power Game: Developing Influence and Negotiation Skills for Sustainable Development
- Virginia Tech (VA)
This paper describes the outcomes of a game designed to teach advanced leadership skills, specifically influence and negotiation strategies, to current and aspiring sustainability professionals at Virginia Tech’s Center ...
- Posted Feb. 10, 2021
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The Use of Reflective Pedagogies in Sustainability Leadership Education—A Case Study
- Blekinge Institute of Technology
This study aims to examine the use of reflective pedagogies in sustainability leadership education by investigating two specific pedagogical tools—the Portfolio and Pod—employed by the Master’s in ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Teaching Climate Leadership: Promoting Integrative Learning in Courses on Strong Sustainability
- Northeastern University (MA)
This article describes how the theory of integrative learning frames student learning in a course on climate leadership. The course is grounded in the theory of strong sustainability, which is ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Education for sustainable healthcare: Leadership to get from here to there
- University of Northern British Columbia (BC)
- University of British Columbia Okanagan (BC)
- Dalarna University
- Swansea University
- University of North Dakota (ND)
- International Federation of Medical Students' Associations
The current global crises, including climate, COVID-19, and environmental change, requires global collective action at all scales. These broad socio-ecological challenges require the engagement of diverse perspectives and ways of ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Rethinking health professions’ education leadership: Developing ‘eco-ethical’ leaders for a more sustainable world and future
- Bond University (Queensland)
- Swansea University
In this commentary, we discuss health professions’ education (HPE) leadership in relation to planetary health emergencies, suggesting that an ‘eco-ethical leadership’ approach is highly relevant. Building on both traditional and ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Implementing AACN's Recommendations for Environmental Sustainability in Colleges of Nursing: From Concept to Impact
- Washington State University, Spokane (WA)
In 2011, the American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) released a guidance report titled Toward an Environmentally Sustainable Academic Enterprise: An AACN Guide for Nursing Education. The report was ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Decarbonising academia: confronting our climate hypocrisy
- University of Otago (Otago)
- University of Surrey
Academia is generally carbon intensive. Many academics are highly aeromobile to an extent that is now being framed as a form of ‘climate hypocrisy’. Technological advances are not enough to ...
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Higher education leadership : professionalism in Finnish higher education in departmental level
- University of Jyvaskyla (PO Box 35)
Achieving a highly quality educational system without taking the issue of leadership into consideration would be unattainable. Academic leadership has gained more attention during the past few decades and considered ...
- Posted Jan. 12, 2021
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Environmental Leadership Certificate
- State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (NY)
Students in the fully online Environmental Leadership certificate program will develop leadership skills in advocating for a values-driven, sustainable culture, staying current with ever-changing, but absolutely critical local, regional, national ...
- Posted Dec. 17, 2020
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Including SDGs in the education of globally responsible leaders
- ISAE Brazilian Business School, Higher Institute of Administration and Economics
Purpose This paper aims to contribute to the discussion of the role of education in developing a new mindset for sustainability leadership by analyzing a project of a Brazilian business ...
- Posted May 18, 2020
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Graduate ability to show workplace sustainability leadership: demonstration of an assessment tool
- RMIT University
Information associated with the assessment of graduate attributes, in the workplace, is limited. Yet if the many environmental and social problems that confront communities are to be managed, we need ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Building Leadership Competencies for the SDGs through Community/University Experiential Learning
- University of Calgary (AB)
- The Strongest Oak Foundation (AB)
This research provides a case study of how experiential learning opportunities provided by a Master of Science program in Sustainable Energy Development (SEDV) helped to achieve four Sustainable Development Goals ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Learning for Transdisciplinary Leadership: Why Skilled Scholars Coming Together Is Not Enough
- University of Calgary (AB)
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
- Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson University) (ON)
Transdisciplinary research is an emerging new normal for many scientists in applied research fields, including One Health, planetary health, and sustainability. However, simply bringing highly skilled students (and faculty members ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Student Sustainability Leadership Development at Portland State University: Developing Holistic Sustainability Leaders
- Portland State University (OR)
In order to address the myriad of social, economic, and environmental challenges the world is facing, we need to be able to engage in leadership that fosters collective action towards ...
- Posted March 6, 2020
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Sensemaking of a sustainability transition by higher education institution leaders
- University of Hamburg
- Technische Universität Dresden (Dresden)
The understanding of meaning-creation processes according to sensemaking theory and its role in conceptualising sustainability in higher education institutions is limited. The idea of sustainability obliges organisations and people to ...
- Posted March 5, 2020
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Training Future Food System Leaders Using Campus Food Economies
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- University of Utah (UT)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
This session is guided by two principle questions: 1. What are all the aspects of a campus food economy and how are students engaged? 2. What structures are in place ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Teaching Sustainability Education through the Lens of Leadership Education
- Colorado State University (CO)
Sustainability education is a broad topic that crosses many disciplines. While some institutions offer sustainability-specific degree programs others have placed focus on implementing sustainability education within their current programs. Since ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Mobilizing higher education to respond to the climate crisis - Part 2
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
Building on the conversations in Part 1 of this session, this session will introduce participants to innovative work taking place at several institutions (Clark University, University of Hawaii, Swarthmore College ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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How to Mobilize 1,000 Leaders in 13 Months -- 5 Simple Steps for Leaders to Win Massive Change
- Elected Officials to Protect America (SC)
- Sunrise Movement (DC)
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, and then you win' - Gandhi. Led by a nationally-renown former elected official, this dynamic, interactive workshop will ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Using Complexity Leadership Theory to Achieve Sustainability Goals
- Chapman University (CA)
This proposal explores how utilizing complexity leadership theory, which is a combination of adaptive, enabling, and administrative leadership, to further campus sustainability goals and initiatives. This presentation will focus on ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Mobilizing higher education to respond to the climate crisis - Part 1
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
This special, experiential session is for faculty, staff, and students who are ready to call on higher education to face the realities of climate disruption and to prepare our communities ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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What is Carbon Neutrality for? A Framework for Sustainability Leadership Beyond Offsets
- Amherst College (MA)
- Smith College (MA)
The most important number in climate policy is zero - we need to achieve carbon neutrality as quickly as possible to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Academic institutions have ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Evaluating a collaborative governance regime in renewable energy: Wind power and the Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo)
- Baldwin Wallace University (OH)
Abstract The Lake Erie Energy Development Corporation (LEEDCo) illustrates the leverage that the collaborative governance regime (CGR) brings to start-up renewable energy ventures. Called Icebreaker, the effort to build the ...
- Posted Nov. 13, 2019
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A Framework for Leadership for Sustainability Education at Portland State University
- Portland State University (OR)
In response to the hitherto unchallenged assumptions supporting a globalized economy, the Leadership for Sustainability Education (LSE) program, formerly Leadership in Ecology, Culture, and Learning, was developed as part of ...
- Posted July 19, 2019
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Management perspectives on campus sustainability in Hong Kong
- University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong)
This study explores administrative managers’ understanding of sustainability issues and perceptions of stakeholder salience in relation to campus environmental initiatives in the publicly-funded universities of Hong Kong. Universities in Hong ...
- Posted May 15, 2019
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Public Infrastructure Management and Leadership Certificate of Advanced Study
- Syracuse University (NY)
The Certificate of Advanced Study in Public Infrastructure Management and Leadership is geared toward midcareer professionals interested in building upon their body of experience, expanding his or her skills and ...
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Leadership in Environmental Sustainability Certificate
- Thompson Rivers University (BC)
The Leadership in Environmental Sustainability certificate allows students to earn formal recognition for their knowledge, skills, awareness, and attitudes that contribute to environmental sustainability competency – from projects, to artwork, to ...
- Posted May 5, 2019
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Leadership of Heart and Mind: Examining the Mind and Skill Sets of Student Sustainability Leadership
- University of New England (ME)
- University of Southern Maine (ME)
The purpose of this comparative case study was to deepen the understanding of post-secondary student sustainability leaders’ motivations and identify the skills they have employed in order to inform the ...
- Posted April 29, 2019
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AIM2Flourish: An Experiential SDGs-Assignment for Students
- Case Western Reserve University (OH)
The UN SDGs are the world’s must-do list by 2030, and we need every student, everywhere to identify themselves as Global Goals leaders. Now in its third year, the ...
- Posted Feb. 14, 2019
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RBC Sustainability Leadership Certificate
- Dalhousie University (NS)
In October 2012, Dalhousie's College of Sustainability launched an innovative new program—the RBC Sustainability Leadership Certificate (SLC).
During the program, participating students attend three weekend seminars and take ...
- Posted Feb. 13, 2019
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