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Growing Sustainable Student Leaders
- University of South Carolina (SC)
Employability is becoming the standard by which we measure the value of a college degree. It is up to higher education professionals to incorporate opportunities for professional development into the ...
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Knowledge matters: Sustainability education trumps narcissism
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Recent research has indicated troubling trends for sustainability in higher education. Student narcissism and individualism are at record high levels, yet empathy is headed in the opposite direction. Is it ...
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Sustainability, Community and Voice: The Power of Student TED Talks
- Chapman University (CA)
Sustainability as an area of focus for the first-year seminar can seem abstract and distant, with only occasional connections to students’ everyday lives. By asking students to give their own ...
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From Surplus to Purpose: A student study to rediscover the value of outdated furniture
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
In the spring of 2012, Johnson County Community College’s (JCCC) Interior Design program introduced a Special Topics course in re-upholstery, having been prompted by students curious about new ways ...
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Students Heat Up Las Pintas: An immersive service experience in solar technology
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
Water is a necessity for all of us, but to some, heating it is a luxury. Now in its second year, the Las Pintas Solar Experience takes Johnson County Community ...
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Forging Access Between Sustainable Campus Initiative and Students
- Kent State University (OH)
This talk considers how knowledge sponsorship and technological determinism of English Departments and campus communities hinder the sustainability consciousness raising for students and campus community members. Kent State University is ...
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Working on Waste at the Kwantlen Student Association
- Kwantlen Polytechnic University (BC)
The Kwantlen Student Association completed a student led waste audit of our student owned and run GrassRoots Cafe and main offices in early 2014. After the waste audit we have ...
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A National Online Community for Student Sustainability Leaders
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
We will share stories from student sustainability leaders from across the country that are connecting with one another, building relationships and sharing ideas about how they are making their campuses ...
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Engaging students in Years of Living Dangerously
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
The YEARS OF LIVING DANGEROUSLY is a journey into the eye of the storm, as Hollywood’s brightest stars and today’s most respected journalists explore the issues of climate ...
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The Implicit Nature of Holistic Sustainability Education: The Student Perspective at Green Mountain College
- Oklahoma State University (OK)
Much has been written about the theoretical underpinnings of a holistic approach to sustainability education, including deep learning and systems theories. Though some studies discuss the need to implement such ...
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Addressing Campus Sustainability Challenges with the Social Sciences: Linking Applied Learning to Student Performance
- Portland Community College (OR)
What do the social sciences have to offer for understanding and addressing campus sustainability challenges? This is the question undergraduate environmental science and studies students explore as part of a ...
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Effectiveness of a Student-led Sustainability Advocacy Coalition
- Stephen F. Austin State University (TX)
Stephen F. Austin State University (SFA), located in East Texas, formed a Sustainability and Energy Management Committee, made up of mid-high level administrative and academic staff. Their primary function was ...
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Student sustainability grants for campus projects at Ohio State
- The Ohio State University (OH)
All across America, institutions struggle to expand programming and to provide meaningful learning opportunities to their students during times of shrinking budgets, increasing costs and reduction of state support. Oftentimes ...
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Student Activism to Catalyze Campus Sustainability
- University of Hawaii at Hilo (HI)
Students hold a tremendous amount of power on both their campuses and their greater communities. When students make their voices heard through nonviolent actions, collaboration, and activism, social and sustainable ...
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Pedagogic elements for student interest in an introductory course
- University of Louisville (KY)
While there are many contested strategies for delivering an education for sustainable development, there are far fewer empirical studies demonstrating the relationships between classroom elements that generate the interest necessary ...
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The Real Food Campus Commitment: Sustainable Food Purchasing and Student Decision Making at the University of Massachusetts Amherst
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
The Real Food Campus Commitment is a pledge for colleges and universities stating that they will buy at least 20% Real Food by 2020. Signing onto the commitment can be ...
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Green Events: Engaging Students in Sustainability via Event Planning
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
Planning and attending events is a key facet of undergraduate student life. Planning these events allows student leaders to develop important life skills including: teamwork, logistics, prioritization, outreach and time ...
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Service Learning and Sustainability: Students prepare environmental risk assessment reports for urban homeowners in Nashville
- Tennessee State University (TN)
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
In 2010 the Center for Service Learning and Civic Engagement at Tennessee State University (TSU), a historically black college, presented a proposal to the federal Housing and Urban Development (HUD ...
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Sustainability: A Solution to Student Retention
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (IL)
Recent statistics from The Princeton Review indicate that 69 percent of college applicants now cite an institution's level of commitment to environmental sustainability as a factor in their college ...
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Forging Alliances: Adaptive Methodologies for Engaging Students
- California State University, Long Beach (CA)
Initiatives on campus require lasting and adaptive student engagement to remain sustainable themselves. This case study analyses the successes and challenges of student engagement methodologies employed via two related sustainability-based ...
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Furman University's Sustainability Living Learning Communities
- Furman University (SC)
Furman University has had a long standing commitment to promoting engaged learning through the development of academic learning experiences beyond the traditional classroom setting. As part of Furman’s ongoing ...
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Crafting a Comprehensive Student Internship Program
- Texas A&M University (TX)
Our Office would like to share strategies used, successes and challenges faced, and lessons learned during our efforts to build and stabilize a Sustainability Student Intern Program. Established in the ...
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Engaging Students in Climate Research with High Altitude Stratospheric Balloons
- Trevecca Nazarene University (TN)
For the last four years, Trevecca Nazarene University has been using small-scale high altitude balloon flights to engage students in climate research and raise awareness of that research within the ...
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Cultivating Sustainability Scholars
- George Mason University (VA)
George Mason University committed to greatly expanding opportunities for undergraduate scholarship through a Quality Enhancement Program associated with the university’s re-accreditation in 2009. Core faculty from Mason’s Environmental ...
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Student to Student: Best Practices and Lessons Learned with Student Engagement
- Alliance to Save Energy (CA)
This session will provide an overview of a student internship program that empowers college students to be tomorrow’s energy efficiency leaders. Currently on 23 universities and colleges and employing ...
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Transitioning to Zero Waste Hockey: A Student Run Pilot
- University of Denver (CO)
Last year students at the University of Denver in partnership with Ritchie Center Athletics led the charge to institute zero waste hockey games at the University of Denver. This grassroots ...
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Sustainability Literacy & Pro-Environmental Behavior -a comparison across domestic and international students at Ohio State Univ
- The Ohio State University (OH)
The Ohio State University (OSU), one of the nation’s largest public universities, ranks among the top 10 nationally for international student enrollment. As per the findings of the Open ...
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What is Old is New Again: Readapt Strategies to Engage Students in Leadership, Social Justice, and Sustainability
- Clemson University (SC)
In our work with students, it is important to be able to articulate what we value on a daily basis. Within University Housing and Dining Services at Clemson University, Residential ...
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Adapting Eco-Rep Training to Optimize Student Experience
- Elon University (NC)
- University of South Carolina (SC)
Eco-Rep training materials and training sessions are vital to laying the ground work for a fun and beneficial student experience, establishing accountability and ultimately contributing to Eco-Rep retention. With time ...
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Closing the Loop on Waste: How Student Waste Becomes a Community Resource
- Appalachian State University (NC)
At the end of every school year, students leave unwanted goods behind…literally tons of it. Faced with the question of how to handle this wanton waste, Appalachian State University ...
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Documenting the Evolution of a Student Garden: How LOGIC Grows Campus Sustainability
- Southern Illinois University Carbondale (IL)
This poster examines the evolution of a student organic garden at a large public university, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, as an example of student initiatives that focus on sustainability education ...
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Engaging Students in an Integrated Solid Waste Management Program at a Higher Education Institution
- Universidad Iberoamericana, A.C. (DF)
An approach to engage engineering students in environmental activities dealing with Solid Waste Management is presented. A series of activities have been developed, including students from different courses and engineering ...
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From the Bayou to our Campus: Immersive Experience as an Opportunity for Student Leadership
- University at Buffalo (NY)
Over the last two years, our students have travelled to southern Louisiana as part of our Alternative Winter Break program to help transform and adapt the landscape into one that ...
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Green Captains - Student Leadership in Dining Services
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- Aramark (PA)
The Green Captain Program promotes student education and development and food waste reduction in Higher Education dining locations. The program empowers student employees and managers from each of the campus ...
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Not Just Another Student Project
- Babson College (MA)
Sustainability project management is never easy, especially as a student Eco Rep coordinator. As a student coordinator, you quickly discover that you cannot be successful if you try to operate ...
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Does experiential student learning lead to more sustainable lifestyles outside the classroom?
- St. Edward's University (TX)
Experiential learning is increasingly promoted as a means of enhancing student learning, especially for Millennial students (Brown, Hansen-Brown and Conte, 2011). Although the applied focus of sustainability courses seems ideal ...
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Student and Community Outreach on Rental Energy
- University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire (WI)
The $CORE (Student and Community Outreach on Rental Efficiency) Program was created by the Energy Program at the University of Colorado- Boulder Environmental Center and was adapted by the Student ...
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Blackout (A Night Out With the Lights Out): University Sustainability as a Social, Carbon-Saving Activity for Students and Staff
- University of Southampton
On one evening in April 2012, 255 students and staff at the University of Southampton completed the first campus-wide equipment energy audit and switch-off event. The aims were to deliver ...
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Designing for Sustainability: Project-based Seminar Series
- Daemen University (NY)
As we encourage students to address sustainability-related issues, we need to have an effective strategy for empowering them to be creative and successful. We have structured our curriculum to include ...
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Fossil Fuel Divestment: A Growing Student-led Movement for Climate Justice
- Brandeis University (MA)
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
- Responsible Endowments Coalition (PA)
- Green Century Capital Management (WI)
Launched on just a handful of campuses in 2011, the Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign has expanded exponentially in just a few short months - escalating the demand for bold climate action ...
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Create Leadership for Sustainability In Student Affairs
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Florida State University (FL)
- Portland State University (OR)
- University of Arizona (AZ)
- Willamette University (OR)
Student Affairs divisions can play a critical role in the higher education sustainability movement through their efforts to recruit students, cultivate significant learning experiences outside the classroom, shape campus culture ...
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Living Buildings that Engage Students (and their Institution) in Sustainability
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
- Hellmuth + Bicknese Architects (MO)
There is a growing trend in education and architecture to create green ‘buildings that teach’, facilities that further occupant’s understanding and engagement in sustainability. Currently, the most progressive green ...
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LEED Laboratory: Training Students to Sustainably Transform the Built Environment
- The Catholic University of America (DC)
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
In 2012 the Catholic University of America, U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) and the Green Building Certification Institute (GBCI) entered into a formal collaboration to create a pilot studio ...
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Students: The Face of Food Auditing
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
- Real Food Challenge (MA)
Nation-wide, University dining services are actively seeking ways to assess the sustainability of their on-campus food system. The Real Food Challenge provides such a tool for sustainability assessment in dining ...
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Beyond the Classroom: Experiential Learning and Students as Agents of Change within Local Communities
- Hillsborough Community College (FL)
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
Through innovative partnerships, students at Hillsborough Community College (HCC) are extending their education beyond the classroom by providing community-wide leadership in the field of sustainability. In 2012-2013, examples of student-led ...
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Creating and Maintaining a Sustainability Student Network
- Macalester College (MN)
This session will focus on the successes and challenges faced by Macalester College in creating and supporting a Sustainability Student Worker Network. Macalester’s network is now in it’s ...
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Embedding Ecological Footprinting into Curriculum as a Tool to Engage Students
- Macquarie University (NSW)
The Department of Environment and Geography and the Sustainability Unit at Macquarie University, Sydney, collaborated to develop and investigate the effectiveness of environmental education pedagogy. A central sustainability goal in ...
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Five Years of an Integrated Approach to Campus Sustainability: Linking Academics, Operations and Student Life
- Dalhousie University (NS)
At the 2008 AASHE Conference, [X] University presented two ambitious campus sustainability initiatives, one academic and one operational, and an overarching sustainability framework. The university has since put these initiatives ...
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Creating Cross-Campus Collaborations: Transforming Curriculum, Empowering Students
- Central College (IA)
Cool things can happen when campus silos are breached and faculty members get to know and start collaborating with directors of facilities, grounds, and food service to empower students. This ...
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Driving the Clean Energy Revolution: Student Entrepreneurial Leaders Wanted - Apply Here!
- Chevrolet (OR)
As Chevrolet prepares to support a cleaner, energy efficient future for US campuses as part of its Carbon Reduction Initiative, it will also be challenging students to help engage their ...
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