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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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University gardens for sustainable citizenship: assessing the impacts of garden-based learning on environmental and food education at Spanish higher education
- Pontifical Catholic University of Ecuador
- University of Valladolid
Gardens are being used at all educational stages, because they provide with a real-world context for active and experiential learning. In Spain, there exists a movement in favor of their …
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Active learning as enabler of sustainability learning outcomes: Capturing the perceptions of learners during a materials education workshop
- Imperial College London
- Research Institutes of Sweden - RISE
Active learning is a promising teaching approach that can develop sustainability competences in learners. In this paper, we investigate the potential of active-learning pedagogies such as serious games and active-learning …
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Conceptualization of sustainability among students, administrative and teaching staff of a university community: An exploratory study in Italy
- Università degli Studi di Torino
- Politecnico di Torino
- Sapienza Università di Roma
Universities have been widely recognised as unparalleled potential catalysers for sustainability, being both formal learning institutions and places where informal, mutual influences and lay/expert knowledge meet. The 17 Sustainable Development …
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Does Higher Business Education Champion Environmental Sustainability for Next Generation of Leaders? An Assessment of In-School Students and Alumni’s Perspective
- University of Hradec Kralove (Královéhradecký kraj)
- Guangzhou College of South China University of Technology
- South China Normal University
Higher business education has become a crucial driver of change in achieving sustainable development because it can educate future leaders who champion environmental sustainability initiatives in the corporate world. Given …
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Exploring the development of context appreciation in coursework that targets problem-solving for sustainable development
- Griffith University (Queensland)
- Swinburne University of Technology
This study aims to explore the role of planned, sudden shifts in lived experiences, in influencing learner capabilities towards improved problem-solving for sustainable development outcomes. The authors responded to employers …
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Fostering Sustainability through Mobility Knowledge, Skills, and Attitudes
- Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (Madrid)
International mobility programmes embed higher education (HE) students in a learning process in which they gain key knowledge, skills, and attitudes (KSAs), some of them crucial in pursuing the Sustainable …
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University students involved in a sustainable world: assessing sustainable consumption in Spain
- Universidad de Salamanca
To achieve sustainable development to protect the environment and society, an increasing number of scholars have conducted in-depth research on sustainable and responsible consumption behaviors. The outputs demonstrate that consumers …
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Happy Sustainability: A Future Quest for More Sustainable Universities
- Universidad de Sonora (Sonora)
- University of Glasgow
For decades, sustainability researchers have tenaciously insisted on transforming higher education institutions into more sustainable and inclusive campuses. Yet, as the 2030 agenda seems unlikely to be achieved, universities are …
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Inclusion of Education for Sustainable Development in Environmental Engineering. A Systematic Review
- Universidad de Salamanca
- Universidad Santo Tomas
Sustainable development (SD) is a global commitment, in the economic, social, and environmental terms of the 21st century. The SD integrates conventional development models that seek economic growth and human …
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Let’s read green! A comparison between approaches in different disciplines to enhance preservice teachers’ environmental attitudes
- Universitat de València
This article examines the effect of different educational approaches to environmental education (EE) in the environmental attitudes of 507 preservice teachers. In one experimental group EE was addressed in a …
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The three enablers of sustainability intelligence
- Breda University of Applied Sciences
- University of Antwerp
Sustainability intelligence is critical for the prosperity of societies worldwide, for conservation of the natural world, for achieving future business success and for the credibility of the concept of sustainability …
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Critical Approaches to Sustainability in the Business Communication Classroom: A Developmental Perspective
- University of Connecticut (CT)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (MA)
Business communication faculty who invite students to critically engage with issues of sustainability must consider students’ developmental readiness to do so, as these invitations can often seem uninvited. To promote …
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Collaborative reflection on environmental practices: a vehicle for environmental education in teacher education
- Lahore College for Women University
- University of Education Lahore (Punjab)
- Beaconhouse National University
Environmental education and sustainability education have emerged as a key focus in teacher education in the past few decades. Researchers have investigated the impact of different pedagogies on pre-service teachers’ …
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Action research for education for sustainable development: the case of the university in-service course ‘education for sustainable development – innovations in school and teacher education (BINE)’
- University of Klagenfurt
- University of Education Upper Austria
The goal of the university professional development course BINE is to encourage participants to address education for sustainable development (ESD) in a reflective way. The main aims are for the …
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Education for sustainability in higher education institutions: A multi-perspective proposal with a focus on management education
- Universidade Feevale
- UNIFOR University of Fortaleza
It is crucial to understand which conditions or elements are relevant to the development of more holistic and integrative models for implementing sustainability into Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). It is …
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Assessing learning progress: validating a test score interpretation in the domain of sustainability management
- University of Göttingen
- DIPF Leibniz Institute for Research and Information in Education/DIPF Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation (Darmstadt)
This paper aims to provide evidence regarding the interpretation that test scores of a newly developed test instrument reflect learning progress in competence in sustainability management. As competence in sustainability …
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Promoting Sustainability Through Multimodal Storytelling
- Åbo Akademi University (Varsinais-Suomi)
- University of Helsinki
In recent years, sustainability has been increasingly recognized within the early childhoodeducation and care (ECEC) context. Early childhood educatorsí capacities to designmeaningful learning opportunities for young children have been underlined. …
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Teaching Sustainable Business Models— A Modeling-Driven Approach
- University of Hildesheim
This study reports on a master-level university course that teaches sustainability by conveying factual and methodological knowledge in terms of business model development. By focusing on business model development, we …
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What Does Education for Sustainable Development Offer in Initial Teacher Training? A Systematic Review
- University of Jaén
- Universidad de Granada
Promoting Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in higher education impliesan improvement and quality in the exercise of responsible citizenship, being the key inthe training of future teachers as the main …
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The adoption of corporate social responsibility active learning methodology with management accounting students
- University of Jaén
The aim of this paper is to integrate active methodology on corporate social responsibility (CSR)1 learning into management accounting studies. The linkages between sustainable management and management accounting demand those …
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CSR Education in Economia Aziendale Curricula: An Overview
- Università del Salento
In the last few years, policymakers have underlined the need for new soft and hard skills about corporate social responsibility (CSR). The main debate about CSR education has been driven …
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Business models for integration of sustainability in universities: An explorative analysis of Italian state universities
- Università degli Studi di Sassari
Although the leadership role of higher education in creating a sustainable development has been widely recognized, there is a paucity of studies following a strategic perspective to explain how universities …
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Custom-made apparel manufacturing micro-enterprise owners’ perspectives on sustainability: how higher education can contribute
- University of South Africa
The purpose of this paper is to investigate custom-made apparel manufacturing micro-enterprise (CMME) owners’ perspectives of sustainability within their business practices throughout the entire product development process and determine how …
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Innovations and challenges in SDG integration and reporting in higher education: a case study from the University of South Florida
- University of South Florida (FL)
As the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have been widely adopted since 2015, higher education institutions (HEIs) are experimenting with ways they can be measured, reported and incorporated into all …
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Effectiveness of a game-based class for interdisciplinary energy systems education in engineering courses
- University of Tsukuba
Professionals in the energy sector are required to understand the interactions among technology, society, and the environment to tackle complex trade-offs among policy issues. The fostering of such professionals with …
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Social marketing and higher education: partnering to achieve sustainable development goals
- University of Twente
- HSBA Hamburg School of Business Administration
Accomplishing the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is imperative for societies to meet their grand challenges. Achieving these goals by 2030 requires sustainability change agents with a can-do-attitude. This …
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Perceived factors affecting student-teachers’ learning about social urban sustainability
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Kentriki Makedonia)
- University of Western Macedonia
The present study aims to explore the perceived factors affecting student-teachers’ (STs) learning about social urban sustainability. Participants were 63 STs enrolled in a Department of Primary Education located in …
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Innovation for environmental sustainability: longitudinal effects of an education for sustainable development intervention on university students’ pro-environmentalism
- University of Zaragoza
Although education for sustainable development (ESD) is a key tool in the transition to a more sustainable society, its integration in higher education remains scarce. One reason for this is …
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Epistemic stability and epistemic adaptability: interdisciplinary knowledge integration competencies for complex sustainability issues
- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Global sustainability challenges transcend disciplines and, therefore, demand interdisciplinary approaches that are characterized by cross-disciplinary collaboration and integration across disciplines. In accordance with this need for interdisciplinary approaches, sustainability professionals …
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Beyond practitioner and researcher: 15 roles adopted by actors in transdisciplinary and transformative research processes
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Wuppertal Institut
To tackle complex sustainability problems, science and practice must join forces and interact in the processes of knowledge co-production. This central claim of sustainability science requires all actors to do …
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Toward an integrated reporting framework in higher education institutions: evidence from a public university
- Yildiz Technical University
The main purpose of this paper is to evaluate to what extent a public university, named Yildiz Technical University, integrated report provides disclosure on International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) content …
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The role of online social networks in university students’ environmentally responsible behavior
- University of Tehran
- Zabol University
This study aims to determine the effect of online social networks on university students’ environmentally responsible behavior (ERB). This research aimed to develop and test a behavioral model in the …
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Synergizing education, research, campus operations, and community engagements towards sustainability in higher education: a literature review
- Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham University
The UN proclamation of 2005–2014 as the decade of education for sustainable development has been instrumental in creating awareness and driving higher education institutions (HEIs) in integrating sustainability into their …
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Education for sustainable development amidst COVID-19 pandemic: role of sustainability pedagogies in developing students’ sustainability consciousness
- National University of Modern Languages (Islamabad Capital Territory)
- Beaconhouse National University
This study aims to assess the impact of sustainability pedagogies on students’ sustainability consciousness (SC) in the online instructional settings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Landscapes as living laboratories for sustainable campus planning and stewardship: A scoping review of approaches and practices
- California State University, Monterey Bay (CA)
Living laboratories are increasingly employed to support campus sustainability and student learning. This research explored how living labs are defined in relation to the biophysical landscape, how they are integrated …
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Is tourism and hospitality education supporting sustainability?
- City Unity College Nicosia
Education can provide learners with the necessary awareness, values and skills to understand the complexity of sustainability. This study aims to analyse the extent to which sustainability concepts have been …
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Early career teacher educators' dispositions toward sustainability and accountability for sustainability issues: a case from teachers colleges in Turkey
- Columbia University (NY)
- Hacettepe Üniversitesi
This study aims to investigate the dispositions of early career teacher educators as young academics toward sustainability and accountability for sustainability issues. Through their interpretations, concerns, awareness and ownership of …
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Towards Sustainable Development through Higher Education Quality Assurance
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- Dnipro University of Technology
This study aims to identify the role of higher education quality assurance in achieving sustainable development goals. To support this aim, the following objectives were formulated: to discuss and summarize …
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Discovering Sustainability in New York City: An Interdisciplinary Framework for Teaching in Urban Institutions
- Empire State College (NY)
Ecological learning is enriched when students can apply course content to their own communities and gain an understanding and experience for deploying sustainable practices. Such merging of content, application, and …
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Reflections and reflective practice to advance responsible management education for sustainability: the case of an Australian MBA programme
- Griffith University (Queensland)
This paper aims to explore Master of Business Administration (MBA) students’ “reflections” and/or “reflection on practice” of sustainability into responsible management education using Bain et al.’s (2002) 5Rs (reporting, responding, …
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Exploring environmental sustainability of academia as a working space
- Indiana University Bloomington (IN)
- Robert Gordon University
This study aims to examine the organizational citizenship behaviors toward the environment among US-based faculty members, in social sciences, natural sciences, the humanities and engineering. Potential barriers that may stop …
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A self-assessment tool for social responsibility in higher education. Reporting on a national policy development process in Portugal
- Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (Coimbra)
Providing higher education institutions (HEIs) with a tool for self-assessing their social responsibility (SR) that generates the information and knowledge necessary to a strategic approach to adopting the Green Paper …
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Campus sustainability in an entrepreneurial framework
- Iona College (NY)
The authors test their environmental entrepreneurship framework using a Trash-to-Treasure experiential learning activity. The authors observed student entrepreneurs coordinate entrepreneurial efforts in a real-life context and collaborate with stakeholders across …
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Are the sustainability-oriented skills and competencies of business graduates meeting or missing employers’ needs? Perspectives of regional employers
- James Cook University (Queensland)
In the Anthropocene, universities play a role in developing students’ sustainability literacy and capacity to solve socio-ecological challenges. The objective of this study is to identify the generic and sustainability-oriented …
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Kicking the Habit: Rethinking Academic Hypermobility in the Anthropocene
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
Examining the hypermobility of many “elite” academic workers, this article situates mobility within the context of higher education and sustainability, decoloniality, and institutionalized expectations for academic travel. The mobility of …
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Promoting sustainability education through hands-on approaches: a tree carbon sequestration exercise in a Singapore green space
- National University of Singapore
- Maejo University
During a university class project related to climate change mitigation strategies, we utilized a university green space as a “living laboratory” for collaborative learning exercise to estimate landscape-level carbon biomass …
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(Un)Subjugating Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Development
- Rowan University (NJ)
- Nottingham Trent University
The relationship between development and higher education has evolved to become co-generative. The most recent incarnation of development goals, the sustainable development goals (SDG) call for a more intentional integration …
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Sustainable management education: insights from indigenous wisdom of Bhartiya (Indian) Gurukul philosophy
- OP Jindal Global University (Haryana)
The purpose of the paper is to highlight the phenomenon of sustainable management education and its facilitating factors by exploring the indigenous wisdom of Bhartiya (Indian) Gurukul philosophy. The paper …
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Investigating undergraduate student learning experiences using the good practice learning and teaching for sustainability education (GPLTSE) framework
- RMIT University
Sustainability curriculum in higher education is a crucial lever for building capabilities and knowledge for graduates to address the interconnected social, ecological and economic challenges of the 21st century in …
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Social Work and the Sustainable Development Goals: A Student Placement Model
- RMIT University
The United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) provide a blueprint to address urgent global challenges, with a clear role for social workers. This paper explores a Sustainable Development Goal’s focused …
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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
- Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings
- Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings
- Inventory of sustainability course offerings (upload)
- Website URL - Sustainability course offerings
AC 2: Learning Outcomes
- Description of institution level sustainability learning outcomes
- List of degree programs that require an understanding of the concept of sustainability
- Percentage of students who graduate from programs that require an understanding of sustainability
- Website URL - Sustainability learning outcomes
AC 3: Undergraduate Program
- First sustainability-focused undergraduate degree program
- Second sustainability-focused undergraduate degree program
- Third sustainability-focused undergraduate degree program
- First sustainability-focused undergraduate minor or concentration
- Second sustainability-focused undergraduate minor or concentration
- Third sustainability-focused undergraduate minor or concentration
AC 4: Graduate Program
- First sustainability-focused graduate-level degree program
- Second sustainability-focused graduate-level degree program
- Third sustainability-focused graduate-level degree program
- First sustainability-focused graduate-level minor or concentration
- Second sustainability-focused graduate-level minor or concentration
- Third sustainability-focused graduate-level minor or concentration
AC 5: Immersive Experience
- Description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s)
- Second sustainability-focused graduate-level degree program
- Third sustainability-focused graduate-level degree program
AC 6: Sustainability Literacy Assessment
- Copy of the sustainability literacy assessment (upload)
- Copy of the sustainability literacy assessment (description)
- Website URL - Assessment of sustainability literacy
AC 7: Incentives for Developing Courses
- Description of the course development incentives
- Website URL - Incentives for developing sustainability courses
AC 8: Campus as a Living Laboratory
Additional analysis on scores and quantitative fields can be conducted using the STARS Benchmarking Tool.