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The James Madison University Student Assessment Initiative
- James Madison University (VA)
Between 2009 and 2020, JMU implemented a comprehensive collection of student assessments and used the results to significantly advance sustainability efforts. Three question sets were, and continue to be, administered ...
- Posted May 15, 2020
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Predicting Student Sustainability Knowledge, Attitudes, and Behaviors: Effects of Demography, Environmental Science Education, and Sustainability Intervention Programs at Georgia Southern University
- Georgia Southern University (GA)
This mixed-methods research approach assesses trends in sustainability knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in the student population at Georgia Southern University (GS). Students completed a baseline survey in order to determine ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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“Future-proof your Degree”: Embedding sustainability and employability at Nottingham Business School (NBS)
- Nottingham Trent University
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a case study of how a UK business school has explicitly linked sustainability to employability and embedded these into all levels ...
- Posted May 11, 2020
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Students’ attitudes towards campus sustainability: A comparison among Jönköping University, Chalmers University of Technology, and University of Gothenburg
- Jönköping University
The role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in promoting and supporting sustainability has outstretched over the past decades as a result of various declarations and commitments related to the need ...
- Posted April 17, 2020
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College students’ understanding of social justice as sustainability
- Indiana State University (IN)
- Saint Louis University (MO)
Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore college students’ understanding of sustainability and, specifically, the extent to which students see social justice as being integral to sustainability.
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- Posted March 5, 2020
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Sulitest: Co-creating the Next Set of Questions for US
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
Sulitest is a movement whose mission is to support expanded sustainability knowledge, skills and mindset that motivates individuals to become deeply committed to building a sustainable future and to make ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Using Sustainability Principles to Impact Library Education: Information Literacy, Resources and Services
- Sul Ross State University (TX)
Libraries are the ultimate hubs of sustainability on academic campuses. Libraries are built for everyone, provide services to everyone, and seek to house information - physically and digitally - on every topic ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Basic Sustainability Co-Curricular Course
- Universidad de Monterrey
In Latin-American countries, and specifically in Mexico I have noticed students lack sustainability literacy, and always think sustainability is about planting trees and recycling. One of the goals of the ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Evaluating knowledge and awareness of 'Sustainability' initiatives among college students
- Lamar University (TX)
This study assesses college students' knowledge and awareness of sustainability issues. Upon the approval of an IRB, data was collected using the Campus Sustainability questionnaire. Students from a university in ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Comparing Environmental Literacy of U.S. University Freshmen With Incoming International Students
- Pittsburg State University (KS)
Since 2014, Pittsburg State University (a regional institution in southeast Kansas), has administered a survey to measure environmental literacy, pro-social environmental behaviors, and issue involvement of all incoming freshman as ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Building Off of Prior Knowledge... Even When it's Wrong
- Michigan State University (MI)
Higher education has been designated by scholars as the most promising mechanism for preparing future generations to engage in sustainable living. But however encouraging the infusion of sustainability into higher ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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What do Students Know, Think, Feel, and do about Sustainability and Climate Change?
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
This session describes three separate but coordinated projects within the University of Hawaii System: a survey, a focus group study, and an assessment pilot project. Moderated for synthesis, each panelist ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Institutionalizing Sustainability Literacy: Leveraging Opportunities for Sustainable Development
- College of Charleston (SC)
Creating leveraging opportunities for institutionalizing sustainability is a pervasive issue for institutions of higher education. This presentation will discuss various potential barriers encountered at the College of Charleston and how ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Arrive as Intern, Depart Further on the Path to Sustainabilista
- Auburn University (AL)
What should sustainability interns know about sustainability, change agentry, and their capacities to lead change initiatives by the time they leave the internship? What can sustainability offices do to send ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Making the hidden curriculum visible: sustainability literacy in higher education
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
Despite strong political support for the development of sustainability literacy amongst the UK graduates, embedding sustainability in the higher education curriculum has met with widespread indifference, and in some cases ...
- 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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An Empirical Investigation on the Awareness and Practices of Higher Education Students in Green Information Technology: Implications for Sustainable Computing Practice, Education, and Policy
- Technological Institute of the Philippines
Green IT is a resource efficient and effective consumption through the use of information technology with minimal or no impact to the environment. This study is an initial attempt to ...
- Posted May 10, 2019
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Assessment of knowledge and awareness of “sustainability” initiatives among college students
- Lamar University (TX)
Campus sustainability is essential for any university. Campus sustainability denotes the potential of the university to develop new ideas regarding sustainability through research, teaching, and practices. It necessitates improved academic ...
- Posted May 7, 2019
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Sulitest®: A Mixed-Method, Pilot Study of Assessment Impacts on Undergraduate Sustainability-related Learning and Motivation
- Pittsburg State University (KS)
A United Nations international collaboration between the Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) and the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) resulted in the creation of Sulitest® (aka Sustainability Literacy Test ...
- Posted March 15, 2019
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Towards a Definition of Environmental Sustainability Evaluation in Higher Education
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid)
- Universidad de Granada
Sustainability is increasing their presence at universities, so it is convenient to reflect on the impact and effectiveness that university sustainability actions are having. Several authors have recognized mature experiences ...
- Posted March 4, 2019
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Sulitest: A collaborative initiative to support and assess sustainability literacy in higher education
- Kingston University London
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
This paper highlights the contribution of the Sulitest (the Sustainability Literacy Test) to the global agenda of integrating sustainability into higher education. The Sustainability Literacy Test is an open online ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2019
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Sustainability literacy: the future paradigm for construction education?
- University of Plymouth (Devon)
Purpose This paper seeks to analyse the hypothesis that sustainability is destined to become the operating paradigm for construction education in the UK.
Design/methodology/approach An international literature review ...
- Posted Feb. 25, 2019
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STARS Data Quality Boot Camp Webinar Series: Academics
- AASHE (MA)
Expanded from last year, the STARS Data Quality Boot Camp Series will help you gain the insights you need to submit a high-quality STARS report in time for the 2019 ...
- Posted Jan. 25, 2019
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Sustainability Knowledge Assessment at a Large, Regional, Minority-Serving Institution
- California State University, Northridge (CA)
- City of Thousand Oaks (CA)
To assess the sustainability literacy of students at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), we administered a modified version of the Assessment of Sustainability Knowledge (ASK) to 2,993 students in ...
- Posted Jan. 11, 2019
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The Sustainability Consciousness Questionnaire: The theoretical development and empirical validation of an evaluation instrument for stakeholders working with sustainable development
- University of Antwerp
- Karlstad University
In this paper, the concept of sustainability consciousness, an individual's experience and awareness of sustainable development, is introduced. Based on UNESCO's definition of sustainable development, a sustainability consciousness ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2018
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Comparing Faculty and Student Sustainability Literacy: Are We Fit to Lead?
- Seattle University (WA)
The importance of teaching sustainability literacy is readily accepted, but relatively little attention has been paid to the adequacy or preparation of faculty to accomplish this task. At Seattle University ...
- Posted June 29, 2018
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How Does Adding an Emphasis on Socioscientific Issues Influence Student Attitudes about Science, Its Relevance, and Their Interpretations of Sustainability?
- North Carolina State University (NC)
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
A general consensus exists among the leaders of both developed and developing nations that their citizens should be scientifically literate. Therefore, it is important for educational systems to provide students ...
- Posted May 21, 2018
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Sustainability Activation Program at the University of Dayton
- University of Dayton (OH)
The Sustainability Activation Program (SAP) is an innovative, large scale, and peer-to-peer education program that began in October of 2016 with the intent to better educate our student body about ...
- Posted May 18, 2018
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PCC Earth (Extended) Week events across the district!
- Portland Community College (OR)
A look at a couple great moments from this years extended Earth Week! There were so many events, service projects, and good times to choose from that I'm going ...
- Posted April 30, 2018
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The ecological domain in the sustainability science research and education
- University of Tokyo
A single disciplinary approach fails to tackle problems threatening the sustainable development. Thus, the sustainability science – focused on the problem, normative, and covering many disciplines – has been developed and recognized ...
- Posted April 17, 2018
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Student's learning processes for sustainable knowledge
- Uppsala University
The concept of sustainability has become one of today's most widely used and controversial concepts. It is therefore important to develop activities within all educational contexts in order to ...
- Posted March 29, 2018
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Learning about Sustainability—What Influences Students’ Self-Perceived Sustainability Actions after Undergraduate Education?
- Gävle University College
Changing societies’ minds about sustainability requires knowledge about the situation, awareness of what needs to be done and actions to change today’s unsustainable behaviors. Universities are challenged to develop ...
- Posted Dec. 22, 2017
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Let's Develop a Sustainability Literacy Assessment!
- Colorado State University (CO)
Many institutions of higher education are interested in assessing their students' sustainability literacy, however developing a reliable and valid assessment tool is a difficult and time-consuming task. In this presentation ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Influences of Student Sustainability Literacy in a University Setting, A Dissertation Study
- Saint Louis University (MO)
This presentation will review the findings from a dissertation on sustainability literacy. The purpose of this study was to investigate how educational sources influence student knowledge, skills, and experiences regarding ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Sulitest Presents "The Updated Sustainability Literacy Test"
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
Come Experience the Updated Sustainability Literacy Test (http://www.sulitest.org). This is a fun learning and assessment tool designed to improve the quality of sustainability education. Up your STARS ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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The Sulitest: How to Raise Awareness and Assess Sustainability Literacy Worldwide?
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
This session covers how the Sulitest can be used to raise awareness of sustainability and assess sustainability literacy.
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Sustainability Competencies: What are They, how to Address Them in Sustainability Courses, and how to Assess Students' Learning
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Portland State University (OR)
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
This workshop introduces the following set of sustainability competencies: systems, future, values, and strategic thinking as well as interpersonal competence. The workshop explores how to use these competencies to design ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Longitudinal Sustainability Literacy and Culture Assessment for Students, Faculty, and Staff - Lessons Learned and Results
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Michigan State University (MI)
- University of Michigan (MI)
As more institutions increase their focus on sustainability both academically and operationally, the need for measurement increases. Currently, there is no common tool for measuring sustainability literacy, the culture of ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Sustainability in Science Museums sustainABLE (R) Activity Kits
- Arizona State University (AZ)
The Sustainability in Science Museums program has developed the sustainABLE® Activity Kits to engage families in sustainability practices and principles. More than 70 kits have been distributed worldwide, engaging more ...
- Posted Oct. 14, 2017
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The Students’ Survey of Education for Sustainable Development Competencies: A Comparison Among Faculties
- Universita degli Studi di Padova
The paper reports research employing a quantitative approach to investigating the competences of university students about educating for sustainable development (ESD). Participants were 467 bachelor students of the following five ...
- Posted Aug. 28, 2017
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Sustainable Business Courseware
- Point B (WA)
AASHE has partnered with Sustainable Business Consulting to provide plug-and-play online sustainable business courseware to help members accelerate the integration of sustainability into their curriculum. The content is consistent with ...
- Posted Aug. 2, 2017
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The Handbook of Sustainability Literacy: Skills for a Changing World
- University of Gloucestershire (Gloucestershire)
In this book, leading sustainability educators are joined by permaculturists, literary critics, ecologists, artists, journalists, engineers, mathematicians and philosophers in a deep reflection on the skills that people need to ...
- Posted June 2, 2017
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The Ohio State University Sustainability Goals Development Project
- The Ohio State University (OH)
In November 2015, The Ohio State University announced the establishment of sustainability goals to guide the university as it develops durable solutions to the challenges of sustainability and in evolving ...
- Posted May 16, 2017
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Assessment of undergraduate students’ environmental stewardship reasoning and knowledge
- James Madison University (VA)
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to present a public university’s design and implementation of an assessment approach that measures the change in undergraduate students’ environmental stewardship reasoning ...
- Posted May 15, 2017
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Plans and Living Practices for the Green Campus of Portland State University
- Portland State University (OR)
This study aims to comprehend Portland State University (PSU)’s green campus strategies, and students’ level of knowledge and living practices relating to green campus. PSU’s sustainable campus plan ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2017
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The Sustainability Literacy Test: Implementation strategies for campuses
- McGill University (QC)
- AASHE (MA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
The Sustainability Literacy Test provides higher education institutions, companies and other organizations around the world with an internationally recognized and locally relevant tool to measure and improve sustainability literacy. This ...
- Posted Jan. 31, 2017
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Prioritizing Co-curricular and Curricular Strategies to Create Sustainability Literate Graduates - and how to Measure Success
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- Purdue University (IN)
What are the most effective strategies and programs for creating sustainability literate graduates who are ready to go beyond the campus? What do we mean by effective-and how do we ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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The Sustainability Literacy Test: Can universities & colleges be sure they are producing sustainability literate graduates?
- KEDGE Business School (Bordeaux)
The Sustainability Literacy Test was created to help higher education institutions, companies and any organization around the world ensure that they are producing graduates or work with employees with awareness ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Developing a Campus-wide Sustainability Assessment
- Colorado State University (CO)
This presentation will describe a dissertation project from Colorado State University that examines individuals' knowledge of sustainability in relation to the concepts of the Triple Bottom Line; economic sustainability, environmental ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Measuring Undergraduate Students' Learning Over Time
- James Madison University (VA)
The Environmental Stewardship Reasoning and Knowledge Assessment (ESRKA), a validated, 50-question test with good reliability, is being used to measure undergraduate students' learning over time at a large, public university ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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