Curriculum

Introduction

One of the primary functions of colleges and universities is to educate students. By training and educating future leaders, scholars, workers, and professionals; higher education institutions are uniquely positioned to understand and address sustainability challenges. Institutions that offer courses covering sustainability issues help equip their students to lead society to a sustainable future.

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Stories of Sustainability Driven Experiential Learning Opportunities for Students

  • University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)

The session aims to elicit a conversation about the benefits, challenges, and best practices of using experiential learning in sustainability-related curricula. Sustainability practitioners seek to reduce environmental impact and promote ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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What Should we Teach in a Sustainability Class?

  • Husson University (ME)

What should university students learn about sustainability in the classroom? As faculty, we constantly reevaluate this question as the climate emergency evolves, and in this talk I will present two ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Beyond Curriculum Integration Initiatives - Educating Otherwise

  • West Chester University of Pennsylvania (PA)

This session will engage participants in a radical reconsideration of sustainability curriculum integration initiatives. Our aim as higher education professionals should be to ensure that every year, of the millions ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Expanding Influence: Leveraging Student Experiential Learning to Build Lasting Partnerships

  • University of Georgia (GA)

This Field Report is an interactive session on leveraging experiential learning initiatives to expand influence.  We will begin with examples of mutually beneficial on and off campus partnerships from the ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Building Partnerships to Advance Sustainability in the Remote-learning Environment

  • University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)

The Educational Sustainability Doctoral Program at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point is an online program for adult learners. Remote learning can be a challenge when the goal and assignments for ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Vulnerability and Resilience: Showcasing Competency in Your Journey of Sustainability

  • University of Cincinnati (OH)

Communicating sustainability is hard. Are you trying to showcase your excellent efforts? Are you trying to change behavior? While many communication efforts claim to be telling a story, they often ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Enhancing Climate Change Education Through the Power of Storytelling

  • Climate Stories Project (MA)

Students and members of the higher education community are feeling overwhelmed by the scale and the pace of the climate crisis but lack a forum for speaking with others about ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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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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When Things Feel Out of Control: Engaging Undergraduates in Climate Emotions Research

  • Wells College (NY)

Engaging undergraduate students in place-based ethnographic research helps develop their efficacy and confidence as sustainability change makers. Faculty at Wells College are mentoring teams of undergraduate researchers conducting a multi-year ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Cross-disciplinary Curriculum and Programing That Supports Innovative Sustainable Solutions

  • Fashion Institute of Technology (NY)

The implementation of new approaches and technologies is paving a pathway forward for the fashion and related industries to reduce impact on our global ecosystem. This conversation will showcase the ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Mining for SDG Gold in Higher Education Curricula

  • Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)

Our research aimed to assess how Ramapo College of New Jersey teaches sustainable development goals and highlight areas that require improvement. In order to do this, we analyzed over 2300 ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Developing Campus-Community Sustainability Internship Programs

  • University of Florida (FL)

Creating connections between college campuses, community organizations, and businesses is vital for strengthening networks and developing sustainability projects that benefit people and planet. The Active Learning Program provides University of ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Advancing Sustainability in Higher Education: Two Proposals

  • American Council on Education (DC)
  • Global Council for Science and the Environment (MD)

Sustainability curriculum is rapidly evolving and expanding across higher education: in Gen Ed, through the AASHE Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum, in the creation of new degrees and certificates ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Where Teaching and Learning Happens Matters: Sustainability Education Outside the Classroom

  • Elon University (NC)

In the context of higher education, the significance of where teaching and learning happens is often assumed or taken for granted. To be sure, service-learning, study away, and community-based learning ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Campus as Classroom: Learning for Sustainability Leadership

  • Smith College (MA)

This session introduces an integrative pedagogy for learning about sustainability, where 1) the campus functions as a learning space; 2) learning is organized around authentic problems, whether emerging from an ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Sustainability Curriculum Integration Discussion

  • Santa Clara University (CA)
  • Western Washington University (WA)

How do we integrate sustainability into the curriculum? What are the best practices for teaching sustainability? How are the key competencies for sustainability assessed? This networking session is for those ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Decolonizing Compost

  • University of the Incarnate Word (TX)

This presentation describes how composting has been integrated into the Sustainability Studies curriculum at my institution and its pedagogical benefits. We have on-site composting in our community gardens, and we ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Grounding Sustainability Education in Self-compassion and Radical Hope

  • University of South Dakota (SD)

We define sustainability as asking the questions, “What kind of world do we want?” and “How can we effect change to create that world?” A goal of this framing of ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Beyond the Concepts! What Faculty Need to Feel Ready to Teach Sustainability in the Classroom

  • Seneca Polytechnic (ON)

It can be argued that for faculty, infusing sustainability across one’s curriculum is as much a deeply personal act as it is a collective academic endeavour. Teaching sustainability is ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Engaging Public Health Students in Environmental Justice Through a Collaborative Art Project

  • Mercer University (GA)

Background. Environmental justice issues may be new to undergraduate public health students. While they are enthusiastic to learn about and engage in environmental justice issues they often do not know ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Sustainability at the Core: Business Curriculum for a Sustainable Future

  • Saint Mary's University (NS)

Join us in this informative session as we share our journey of integrating sustainability at the very core of our Bachelor of Commerce program at the Sobey School of Business ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Innovations in Assessing Sustainability Competence, Culture, Literacy, and Engagement

  • Santa Clara University (CA)
  • University at Albany (NY)
  • University of Florida (FL)

Assess the state of sustainability on your campus! Whether you wish to assess sustainability for instructional assessment or for your institution’s AASHE STARS report, this session will cover various ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Out of The Box Sustainability: Green Education Support for Title I Schools

  • Maryville College (TN)

How can underrepresented students, in under-resourced schools in economically distressed communities be supported with their sustainability education efforts? The answer might be found in a box. Classrooms in a Box ...

  • Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Ground Truths: Community-Engaged Research for Environmental Justice

  • Occidental College (CA)
  • Santa Clara University (CA)

This open-access book is the first volume devoted entirely to summarizing the body of community-engaged research on environmental justice, how we can conduct more of it, and how we can ...

  • Posted Feb. 13, 2024
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Design Thinking for Sustainable Development Education: Practical Toolkit

  • AASHE (PA)
  • Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Jerusalem)
  • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design’s Sustainable Development Hub and the School of Education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have collaborated to create a Practical Toolkit for ...

  • Posted Feb. 8, 2024
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How we see water: Developing a transdisciplinary course through a local lens

  • University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
  • AASHE (PA)

Human activity has contributed to climate change and environmental degradation. As a result, our freshwater supplies are facing a major threat. Water is vital for life. It is our responsibility ...

  • Posted Feb. 6, 2024
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Water Resources (MS)

  • University of Idaho (ID)

Students will learn to collaborate effectively with peers in other fields and with key stakeholders and professionals to define, research, and achieve creative and sustainable solutions to contemporary water problems ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Water Resources (PhD)

  • University of Idaho (ID)

Students will learn to collaborate effectively with peers in other fields and with key stakeholders and professionals to define, research, and achieve creative and sustainable solutions to contemporary water problems ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Fish and Wildlife Science (MS)

  • University of Idaho (ID)

The M.S. degree with major study in either fishery resources or wildlife resources is awarded when a student has met the requirements listed below. A formal graduate program of ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Sustainable Food Systems (BS/BA)

  • Prescott College (AZ)

This degree explores food systems from agricultural processes, to marketplace dynamics, to the issues of food justice. Students engage in interdisciplinary study and practice, drawing on history, environmental studies and ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Sustainability Management (BA)

  • Prescott College (AZ)

The Bachelor of Arts in Sustainability Management is designed to give students a home for their personal vision of how to design and implement measures that facilitate business goals and ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Resilient and Sustainable Communities (MS)

  • Prescott College (AZ)

The Master of Science degree in Resilient and Sustainable Communities (MRSC) uses a bioregional approach to distance learning, in which students apply what they learn in each course to their ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Environmental Studies and Conservation Biology

  • Prescott College (AZ)

Conservation Biology is an interdisciplinary field that has developed rapidly to respond to a global crisis confronting biological diversity and the cultural diversity that depends upon it. Practitioners of Conservation ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Sustainability Leadership (MBA)

  • Prescott College (AZ)

Graduates lead the way in integrating environmental, social, and governance actions into entrepreneurial ventures, sustainable businesses, nonprofits, and government.

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Sustainable Food Systems (MS)

  • Prescott College (AZ)

This degree supports the strengthening of communities and their members by helping people re(build) healthy, just and sustainable food systems. In today’s world of complex food, nutrition, and ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Sustainable Food Systems (MBA-MSFS)

  • Prescott College (AZ)

Designed for students interested in transforming food systems. Students gain sustainable leadership skills and tools with the knowledge of systems science needed to build and change businesses that contribute to ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Community Planning (MCP)

  • Auburn University (AL)

The community planning program is concerned with the use of land, protection of the environment, public welfare, the design of public spaces and infrastructure, and the economy.

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Landscape Architecture (MA)

  • Auburn University (AL)

The Auburn Master's in Landscape Architecure involves three areas of inquiry, which guide and regulate its teaching and learning strategies. These are ecological urbanism, environmental justice and global challenges ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Earth System Science (PhD)

  • Auburn University (AL)

Is based on the integration of scientific disciplines from five participating colleges and 10 academic departments at Auburn University, providing for a curriculum of unusual richness and breadth. The earth ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Applied Economics, Agriculture (PhD)

  • Auburn University (AL)

Focuses on the applications of economic theory and econometrics to resolve problems concerning agricultural endeavors.

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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International Studies, Global Health and Environment (BA)

  • University of Dayton (OH)

Environmental issues such as climate change, air and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity are inherently global. International studies majors in the global environmental sustainability concentration are able to combine ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Sustainability Studies (BA, BS)

  • University of Dayton (OH)

Provides students an understanding and appreciation of the interdisciplinary aspects of sustainability, energy and the environment. The goal of the program and the Hanley Sustainability Institute is to equip students ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Human Rights Studies (BA)

  • University of Dayton (OH)

Intended to produce intellectually adept students capable of performing rigorous research and conducting high quality analysis of critical questions in the area of human rights. It is equally intended to ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Human Rights Studies (Minor)

  • University of Dayton (OH)

Provides students an opportunity to address issues related to human rights from various disciplinary approaches. The universal nature of human rights issues may directly relate to a major, while in ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Renewable & Clean Energy (MS)

  • University of Dayton (OH)

Students will take in-depth courses in solar engineering, geothermal engineering, wind engineering, biofuels, building and industrial energy efficiency develop, and energy data analytics. Project-based experiences linked to industrial and governmental ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Sustainability Leadership (Minor)

  • University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)

The minor provides an opportunity for students in any academic major to develop key competencies that will be the foundation for their growth as sustainability leaders in their civic and ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Environmental Science (BS)

  • University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)

Students majoring in Environmental Science prepare for a variety of careers in the private and public sector. Environmental scientists perform environmental impact analyses, water/soil pollution assessment and remediation, water ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Meteorology and Atmospheric Science Major (BS)

  • University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)

For students interested in meteorology, weather forecasting, climatology and air pollution, and fulfills the education requirements for federally employed meteorologists. Students in this program conduct forecasting of weather, extreme events ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Environmental Studies (MS)

  • University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)

Program provides an opportunity for students to enhance their knowledge, skills, and career through innovation and research. This post-graduate program offered on a full time basis has a well-designed curriculum ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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Environmental Atmospheric Science (Graduated Certificate)

  • University of Massachusetts Lowell (MA)

Designed for students who have an interest in the environmental aspects of the Atmospheric Sciences. The intended audience is practitioners in the environmental field who want to broaden their expertise ...

  • Posted Dec. 13, 2023
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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.

All responses reference content from reports under the latest version of STARS, version 2.2. AASHE membership and log-in is required.

AC 1: Academic Courses

AC 2: Learning Outcomes

AC 3: Undergraduate Program

AC 4: Graduate Program

AC 5: Immersive Experience

AC 6: Sustainability Literacy Assessment

AC 7: Incentives for Developing Courses

AC 8: Campus as a Living Laboratory

Additional analysis on scores and quantitative fields can be conducted using the STARS Benchmarking Tool.

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