Campus Engagement
Introduction
Engaging in sustainability issues through co-curricular activities allows students to deepen and apply their understandings of sustainability principles. Institution-sponsored co-curricular sustainability offerings, often coordinated by student affairs offices, help integrate sustainability into the campus culture and set a positive tone for the institution. Faculty and staff members’ daily decisions impact an institution’s sustainability performance. Equipping faculty and staff with the tools, knowledge, and motivation to adopt behavior changes that promote sustainability is an essential activity of a sustainable campus.
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Campus and Community Involvement in Move-Out Programs Membership Required
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- Wilfrid Laurier University (ON)
- AASHE (PA)
Classes end and our students vacate the rooms in their residence halls, cleaning up so that other students may become the new occupants. In the process, students discard lots of ...
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AASHE Award Winner Webinar – Generating and Maintaining Hope and Agency through Sustainability Education Membership Required
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
- AASHE (PA)
Indigenous educator Gregory Cajete articulates the motivations and questions that drive the presenter’s research. For Cajete, effective education entails ‘finding heart,’ an active process within and beyond the person ...
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University community responses to on-campus resource recycling Membership Required
- Massey University
In order to gain a better understanding of the attitudes and behaviour of a campus community toward a university concourse-based recycling scheme, a survey of 1400 students and staff, at ...
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Embedding sustainability in higher education through interaction with lecturers: Case studies from three European technical universities Membership Required
- UPC. University Technical of Catalonya
- Technical University of Delft
- Chalmers University of Technology
In this paper, three universities compare their work on the integration of sustainable development into their educational programmes. The purpose is to show examples of how this can be done ...
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Preparing for Campus Sustainability Month 2017 Membership Required
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Chemeketa Community College (OR)
- University of Nebraska at Omaha (NE)
- AASHE (PA)
October is Campus Sustainability Month! Watch this webinar to gain ideas and inspiration for how you can leverage CSM to engage and inspire incoming students and other campus stakeholders to ...
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The Alt-Right on Campus: What Students Need to Know Membership Required
Taken from the Aug. 10, 2017 press release (linked at the bottom):
An old and familiar poison is being spread on college campuses these days: the idea that America should ...
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Fear Appeals and College Students’ Attitudes and Behavioral Intentions Toward Global Warming Membership Required
This study used Witte's extended parallel process model to examine the relationships between the use of fear appeals and college students’ attitudes and behavioral intentions toward global warming. A ...
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Comparing different measures of affective attributes relating to sustainability Membership Required
- University of Otago
- Otago Polytechnic
A survey was developed to benchmark the affective sustainability characteristics of an incoming cohort of students in a Polytechnic in New Zealand, with the intention to monitor changes in these ...
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Impact of a Wilderness Orientation Program on College Student's Life Effectiveness Membership Required
Wilderness based outdoor orientation programs have been offered at colleges and universities to incoming freshmen since the 1930s. Although these programs appear to impact students in a positive way (e ...
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Paper Reduction at the University of Washington Membership Required
- University of Washington, Seattle (WA)
- University of Washington, Bothel (WA)
- University of Washington, Tacoma (WA)
The University of Washington is committed to reducing paper consumption at the university and using paper made from recycled content when necessary. Learn more about why that's important with ...
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Fix It Friday promotional flyer Membership Required
- Illinois State University (IL)
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Written Messages Improve Edible Food Waste Behaviors in a University Dining Facility Membership Required
- Kansas State University (KS)
The purpose of this operational study was to determine how to introduce food waste behavior change into a dining facility using a simple message-type intervention that requires little sustained administrative ...
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Greening the Heart of Postsecondary Education Membership Required
- Royal Roads University (BC)
- AASHE (PA)
What does “greening the heart of education” look like at the postsecondary level? What are the big questions we must pose — and answer — if colleges and universities are to contribute ...
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Sustainable Business Courseware Membership Required
- Sustainable Business Consulting (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 ...
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20% discount to attend Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) for AASHE members Membership Required
- Portland State University (OR)
Washington & Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) is a platform for empowering and inspiring change making, facilitating action, and for sharing, networking, and collaboration related to sustainability within the ...
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The climate mitigation gap: education and government recommendations miss the most effective individual actions Membership Required
Current anthropogenic climate change is the result of greenhouse gas accumulation in the atmosphere, which records the aggregation of billions of individual decisions. Here we consider a broad range of ...
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Not Business as Usual: Fostering Civic Engagement on Climate Change Membership Required
- AASHE (PA)
- U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) (PA)
- CitizensΓÇÖ Climate Lobby (CA)
Scientists are in consensus that the world needs to drastically reduce greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, and this cannot be accomplished by ...
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Green Awakenings Report 2011: Identifying the assets and barriers to creation care on Christian campuses Membership Required
- Abilene Christian University (TX)
- Baylor University (TX)
- Calvin College (MI)
- Eastern University (PA)
- Gordon College (MA)
- Messiah College (PA)
- Renewal: Students Caring for Creation (MI)
Renewal’s 2011 Green Awakenings: Digging Deeper explores the conditions that lead to the success or failure of creation care initiatives on Christian campuses. As Renewal has witnessed more engagement ...
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Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: The Effectiveness of Community-Based Social Marketing on Energy Conservation for Sustainable University Campuses Membership Required
- Emory University (GA)
- Kansas State University (KS)
The paper presents a community-based social marketing (CBSM) study that was conducted at Kansas State University (KSU) to determine potential strategies to decrease energy consumption on college campuses. The study ...
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What are the key elements of a sustainable university? Membership Required
Nowadays, the principles of sustainable development are becoming increasingly important and universities are acting as agents in promoting these principles within society. In the future, universities will inevitably play crucial ...
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The engaged university: providing a platform for research that transforms society Membership Required
Despite a growing recognition that the solutions to current environmental problems will be developed through collaborations between scientists and stakeholders, substantial challenges stifle such cooperation and slow the transfer of ...
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Sustainability Leadership Programs: Emerging Goals, Methods & Best Practices Membership Required
Colleges and universities are rushing to respond to an increasingly urgent challenge: developing the next generation of sustainability leaders. Although diverse in program design, teaching methodologies, assumptions, and skills taught ...
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Qualifications for Contributing to Sustainable Development A Survey of Environmental Sciences Graduates Membership Required
A survey of Environmental Sciences graduates from ETH Zurich was conducted to gain insights into their sustainability-oriented activities. 567 participants provided 672 concrete best-practice examples of their professional contributions to ...
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Spreading the Eco-Message: Using Proactive Coping to Aid Eco-Rep Behavior Change Programming Membership Required
- George Mason University (VA)
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Making pro-environmental behavior changes can be difficult, particularly when these changes challenge daily routines and comfortable lifestyles. We designed and implemented an eco-representative intervention program to help students reduce their ...
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Influences on Student Intention and Behavior Toward Environmental Sustainability Membership Required
As organizations place greater emphasis on environmental objectives, business educators must produce the next set of leaders who can champion corporate environmental sustainability initiatives. However, environmental sustainability represents a polarizing ...
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Energy conservation attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors in science laboratories Membership Required
Energy use per square foot from science research labs is disproportionately higher than that of other rooms in buildings on campuses across the nation. This is partly due to labs ...
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Analyzing Barriers to Energy Conservation in Residences and Offices: The Rewire Program at the University of Toronto Membership Required
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Yale University (CT)
- University of Toronto (ON)
Conducting a barriers analysis is an important first step when designing proenvironmental behavior change interventions. Yet, detailed information on common barriers to energy conservation campaigns remains unavailable. Using a pair ...
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Personal authenticity and political subjectivity in student deliberation in environmental and sustainability education Membership Required
This study problematizes what is meant when one talks about classroom activities concerning environmental and sustainability issues as being authentic or not. It reports excerpts from three classroom discussions which ...
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The relationship between university students’ environmental identity, decision-making process, and behavior Membership Required
Environmental education scholars have argued for the need to focus on identity as a more predictive factor than attitude of individuals’ environmental behavior. We examine individuals’ decision-making as a mediating ...
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Earthday at Universidad de Monterrey Membership Required
- Universidad de Monterrey (NL)
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Put a Price on It: Bringing Higher Education into the Carbon Pricing Dialog Membership Required
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- AASHE (PA)
This webinar explores the role of institutions of higher education in the emerging national carbon pricing dialog. Institutions of higher education have an immense capacity to educate a broad audience ...
- Posted 4 months ago
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NYU Celebrates Earth Month Membership Required
- New York University (NY)
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UCI celebrates Bike Month Membership Required
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
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GVSU Bike Safety Course for National Bike Month Membership Required
- Grand Valley State University (MI)
- League of American Bicyclists (DC)
This lunch and learn serves as a 45 minute introduction to safe and knowledgeable bicycling. The discussion is led by instructors certified by the League of American Bicyclists (LCIs) and ...
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Sustainability on the Other Side of the Stacks An embedded librarian in the Sustainability Office Membership Required
Sustainability on the Other Side of the Stacks: An embedded librarian in the Sustainability Office By Amy Brunvand, American Libraries, The Scoop [blog], May 22, 2017 (online, part of a ...
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Full Service Organics Membership Required
- St. John's University, New York (NY)
In the Full Service Organics documentary video, St. john's University, New York (SJU) has documented its efforts of student engagement in fighting hunger and waste, and making compost from ...
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Swarthmore Carbon Charge Program Membership Required
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Swarthmore’s Carbon Charge seeks to systematically incorporate the unfelt global impacts of our emissions into our decision-making, both individually and as a college.
The scope of the work necessary ...
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University of California, Irvine's Pump2Plug Electric Vehicle Adoption Program Membership Required
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
The UCI Pump2Plug Electric Vehicle (EV) Adoption Program is widely recognized as the first university incentive programs for EV adoption through the replacement of gas-powered vehicles with electric vehicles. With ...
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University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point Designated as the 40th Fair Trade University in the U.S. Membership Required
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
The University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, part of a national initiative by Fair Trade Campaigns to engage college/university students in issues of global poverty, officially received designation as ...
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Natural Herbicides Project
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- Engineers for a Sustainable World (DC)
The Natural Herbicides Project focuses on addressing the issue of the usage of chemical herbicides with detrimental health and environmental impacts on- and off-campus. Our team developed an effective natural ...
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Penstemon 2.0 Membership Required
- Santa Clara University (CA)
From the outset, our goal has been to foster a culture of sustainability at the University by focusing on our curriculum as an interdisciplinary community of scholars. SCU has used ...
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Art as the Catalyst for Critical Sustainability Conversations
- University at Albany (NY)
The University at Albany is proud to submit an application that illustrates our use of art as the catalyst for critical sustainability conversations. This was accomplished via two main projects ...
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Students Contribute Record-Breaking $6 Million to Student Green Energy Fund Membership Required
- University of South Florida (FL)
The purpose of the Student Green Energy Fund is to provide an opportunity for students, faculty, and staff to present formal proposals to a governing Fund Council with the goal ...
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Report of the Smith College Study Group on Climate Change
- Smith College (MA)
In this report, the Study Group on Climate Change (SGCC) presents its recommendations for climate action by Smith College. By implementing these recommendations, the college will coherently integrate climate action ...
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Branding our Waste: Creating College-Specific Recycling Signage through Collaboration
- Red River College (MB)
In an ongoing effort to improve the effectiveness of our waste and recycling programs, Red River College set about redesigning our hallway waste and recycling signage (Pitch In signs) in ...
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Sustainability Weekend Conference, Carnegie Mellon University Membership Required
- Carnegie Mellon University (PA)
‘Sustainability Weekend’ is a student-initiative held on Carnegie Mellon’s campus in Pittsburgh, PA, with the goal to promote inter-disciplinary conversations to raise awareness about the many sustainability issues surrounding ...
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Cascadia Campus Climate Conversation (C4) Membership Required
- Cascadia College (WA)
-On October 25th, 2016, the senior cohort of the Bachelors of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices (BASSP) program at Cascadia College, Bothell, WA, held the first campus dialogue to discuss ...
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How Middlebury College Achieved Carbon Neutrality
- Middlebury College (VT)
This past winter, Middlebury College achieved an ambitious goal of carbon neutrality that had been officially set in 2007. When it became clear that the College’s initial of goal ...
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Students Spark Solar Membership Required
- University of Minnesota, Duluth (MN)
A group of ten students focused in various areas of study from across the University of Minnesota Duluth campus came together to form the Solar University Network Delegation and advance ...
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SFU’s 20-Year Sustainability Vision and Goals Case Study Submission
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
On the 50th Anniversary of the institution, SFU launched an ambitious engagement process to map out and envision what a “sustainable SFU” would look like in 20 years. The yearlong ...
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This tab provides access to data collected through AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS). STARS is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. STARS enables meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions using a common set of measurements developed with broad participation from the campus sustainability community. Additional content and advanced benchmarking tools will be added to this tab over time.
Programs and Initiatives
The following links connect to specific Content Displays on the STARS website (AASHE membership and log-in required).
- Central campus sustainability websites
- Co-curricular programs and initiatives
- Active student groups focused on sustainability
- Gardens, farms and co-curricular programs where students are able to gain experience in organic agriculture and sustainable food systems
- Student-run enterprises that include sustainability
- Sustainable investment funds and initiatives through which students can develop socially, environmentally and fiscally responsible investment and financial skills
- Cultural arts events, installations or performances related to sustainability that have students as the intended audience
- Wilderness or outdoors programs for sudents that follow Leave No Trace principles
- Sustainability-related themes chosen for themed semesters, years, or first-year experiences
- Programs through which students learn sustainable life skills
- Sustainability-focused student employment opportunities
- Graduation pledges through which students pledge to consider social and environmental responsibility in future job and other decisions
- Student orientation activities that feature sustainability
- Employee orientation activities that feature sustainability
- Sustainability trainings and professional development opportunities available to staff
Scores
The following link connects to the Score Display on the STARS website (AASHE membership and log-in required).
Campus Engagement Partners
American College Personnel Association (ACPA)
Washington, DCCampus Safety, Health, and Environmental Management Association
Bloomington, INCarrier Class Green Infrastructure
Willow Grove, PABusiness Affiliate
Coalesce
Boston, MABusiness Affiliate
Council for Christian Colleges and Universities
Washington, DCFairware Promotional Products Ltd
Vancouver, BCBusiness Affiliate
Fit for Green Inc.
Mission Viejo, CABusiness Affiliate
GreenerU
Watertown, MABusiness Affiliate
Korean Association for Green Campus Initiative
Seoul, SeoulBusiness Affiliate
National Wildlife Federation
Reston, VABusiness Affiliate
NIRSA: Leaders in Collegiate Recreation
Corvallis, ORNOLS
Lander, WYBusiness Affiliate
Northwest Earth Institute
Portland, ORBusiness Affiliate
Post Landfill Action Network
Dover, NHBusiness Affiliate
Rivanna Natural Designs
Richmond, VABusiness Affiliate
RRS
Ann Arbor, MIBusiness Affiliate
Strategic Energy Innovations
San Rafael, CABusiness Affiliate
Textbooks for Change
Toronto, ONBusiness Affiliate
The Campus Kitchens Project
Washington, DCBusiness Affiliate
The GREEN Program
Philadelphia, PABusiness Affiliate