Diversity & Affordability
Introduction
Higher education opens doors to opportunities that can help create a more equitable world, and those doors must be open through affordable programs accessible to all regardless of race, gender, religion, socio-economic status and other differences. In addition, a diverse student body, faculty, and staff provide rich resources for learning and collaboration.
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Encountering Unjust Transitions: Sustainability, Masculinities, and (m)Anthropocene Collapse
- College of Charleston (SC)
This session builds on the Just Transition insight that, 'The transition itself must be just and equitable' and must include 'redressing past harms and creating new relationships of power for ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Integrating Wellness and Diversity into the Sustainability Model: A Faculty and Staff Perspective
- Augsburg University (MN)
- Bemidji State University (MN)
The Bemidji State University (BSU) Sustainability Office realized in 2008 that the work they felt called to do required a different visual representation than the typical Venn diagram that includes ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Investing in the Just Transition: How to Leverage Your Institution's Endowment
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
- RBC Global Asset Management
- Low Income Investment Fund (CA)
When exploring how to finance the just transition, the over half-trillion dollars in endowment funds invested by the nation's higher education institutions represent a relatively untapped resource containing immense ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Centering Equity within Sustainability Offices
- Humber College (ON)
At the 2019 AASHE Conference & Expo, Meghan Fay Zahniser (Executive Director) spoke in her closing remarks that sustainability staff and administrators have a professional and moral duty to incorporate ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Bold Leadership and the Refugee Crisis
- Colorado State University (CO)
- Minnesota State University Moorhead (MN)
Bold leaders are needed to address the current global refugee crisis. Through our interactive presentation we will provide attendees the information they need to become those leaders. We will walk ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Queering Sustainability
- University of Montana (MT)
Queering Sustainability...What does that mean and why should we care? If we truly want to talk about Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and 'Mobilizing for a Just Transition,' we have ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Promoting Sustainability Through Diverse Children's Literature
- University of Wisconsin-River Falls (WI)
Since 2013 this unit on assessment within the elementary Educational Psychology course introduces aspiring educators (>860 students) to the topic of constructing informal formative and summative assessments, rubrics and extension ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Menstrual Equity is not a Luxury. Period.
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
This proposal would address the process of acquiring funding regarding menstrual equity, finding dispensers that work for everyone, recognizing the importance of ADA compliance and hygiene standards, and how to ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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The Conscience of a Campus Framework, Integrating Local and Global Cultures
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
- MKThink (CA)
Today's university demographics are extremely diverse, and each university/college campus has its own personality and history. Every institution has unique layers of history, context and culture, that if ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Accessibility in Campus Green Spaces
- University of North Carolina, Asheville (NC)
This presentation will discuss the beneficial role UNC Asheville's urban green spaces play on campus, with a special focus on accessibility. When considering college enrollment, I was worried by ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Hungry Minds: Fighting Food Insecurity on College Campuses
- Compass Group (NC)
Food insecurity, a condition of limited or uncertain access to nutritional foods, is a growing problem on college campuses across the nation. While a 2017 study showed nearly 12% of ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Land Acknowledgements
- Bemidji State University (MN)
A Land Acknowledgement is a statement that 'recognizes the Indigenous peoples who have been dispossessed from the homelands and territories upon which an institution was built and currently occupies and ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Sustainability Literacy in an Undergraduate Class About Disabilities - What Are You Thinking?
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
In order to mobilize for a just transition, undergraduate education majors must understand how sustainability practices can be embedded in their teaching practices. Doing so has the ability empower today ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Early College, College, and Beyond: A Sustainable Educational Initiative
- University of Texas at El Paso (TX)
The Paso del Norte region is uniquely located in between two nations and three states. In the past, this region suffered from lack of access and support for educational attainment ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Developing and Executing an Equity-Focused Mobility Strategic Plan
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Employers and universities are challenged to make their buildings, facilities, and programs more inclusive and welcoming. The absence of transit access and inclusive mobility programs or amenities may create barriers ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Increasing Access to Sustainability Education Through Online Programs
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
Education has long been seen as crucial to supporting the needed sustainability transitions. Yet if these sustainability transitions are going to be just and inclusive than so must the education ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Racial Equity and Social Justice Essay Series: Resources for Higher Education Staff on Understanding Key Concepts...
- Boston University (MA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- AASHE (MA)
Better understanding, supporting, and addressing racial equity and social justice issues as they relate to sustainability work in higher education is paramount in creating institutions that welcome and nurture intellectual ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Social Justice in Learning Outcomes: Environmental Literacy in an Indigenous Language Hotspot
- Everett Community College (WA)
This session introduces a bottom-up approach to curriculum in environmental literacy, aligned explicitly to social justice learning outcomes at a state community college in Everett, Washington. Presented herein are three ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Building cross-institutional sustainability and equity partnerships
- Bemidji State University (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
This workshop will include real-life examples, strategies and tactics to support successful cross-institutional partnerships that promote interconnectedness and integration of equity, diversity, inclusion and sustainability. Learn why a strong partnership ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Mentoring Underrepresented Students in Sustainability: Preparing the Next Generation of Leaders!
- University of Iowa (IA)
Diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential in the field of environmental sustainability. However, it's often the people most impacted by unsustainable practices and climate change who have the least ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Creating a Green Allies Coalition to Address Social Sustainability: Lessons Learned and Future Goals
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
This session will describe the efforts of the Green Allies Coalition within the Office of Sustainability at UW-Madison. Our office has teams focused on improving environmental sustainability, yet no team ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Transformational Education or Transforming Education?
- University of South Dakota (SD)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
In order to mobilize a just transition, transformation in how we think, act and our sense of being in the world envisioning a holistic approach of head, hands and heart ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Lessons From the Field of Education: Bridging Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability
- Chatham University (PA)
- University of Michigan (MI)
Social justice (i.e. equity) is one of sustainability's '3Es,' alongside the economy and environment. Yet too often, these 'Es' are framed with shaky connections or as separate spheres ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Partnering the university with correctional facilities for equitable education
- Butler University (IN)
College is a privilege not accessible to everyone. The structure of higher education is elitist and promotes a specific ideology in even the most liberal of schools. How can we ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Staying Green While Staying Woke: Creating Inclusive Sustainability Communities in Higher Education
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
Equity is one of the pillars of sustainability. While there is more attention to climate and environmental justice in our field today, much of the work in sustainability spaces tends ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Incorporating Social Equity Considerations into Sustainability & Climate Action Planning
- Portland Community College (OR)
Equity is playing an increasing role in the process of sustainability and climate action planning. Asking 'Who benefits?' and 'Who gets to decide?' from the outcomes is a critical component ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Creating Intersectionality with Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in Sustainability with UC Berkeley
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
In the realm of establishing a sustainable campus, a clear understanding and commitment from leaders (staff and students) are necessary to execute those goals. Often times, communities who are underrepresented ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Strategies, Priorities and Movement Building Tactics of the Environmental Justice Movement
- The New School (NY)
Climate change is one of the most significant threats to humanity. Frontline, environmental justice (EJ) communities will be the most impacted by these threats and are already facing the devastating ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Using Equitable & Accessible Teaching Practices to Support Students With Disabilities in Your Course
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
Are you truly utilizing inclusive pedagogy in your instruction to ensure that your content is accessible for all students? Do you plan lessons, assignments, and assessments with your students' learning ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Adaptive Mindsets for Transformative Action
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
Expertise and good intentions are only part of the equation. To achieve what Stephen Sterling calls 'a transformative response,' we also need adaptive mindsets. In this interactive session, we'll ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Communicating Across Differences: Refugee Resettlement
- Prescott College (AZ)
Building sustainable and resilient communities requires a number of skills, but perhaps none is more essential than the ability to foster communication between portions of a community so divided that ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Leaders of Color: Navigating Environmentalism and Sustainability
- University of Northern Colorado (CO)
This networking event is for, but not exclusive to, environmental leaders of color. It will start with a concise presentation on ecological leaders of color who have paved the way ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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We're Here and Queer! Queers in Sustainability Meetup
- University of Montana (MT)
In the fight against climate change, those with marginalized identities will be most directly impacted and affected by injustices that follow. In pursuit of sustainability practices, it is imperative to ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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No Sustainability Without Justice, Volume II
- AASHE (MA)
- Winthrop University (SC)
- Allegheny College (PA)
- College of Charleston (SC)
- Trinity College (CT) (CT)
- Howard University (DC)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
Volume II of No Sustainability Without Justice: An Anthology on Racial Equity and Social Justice shares perspectives from 14 authors on how racial equity, social justice, diversity and inclusion are ...
- Posted Oct. 29, 2021
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No Sustainability Without Justice, Volume I
- AASHE (MA)
- Harvard University (MA)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- University of Oregon (OR)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- Portland Community College (OR)
AASHE’s advisory committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion conceived of No Sustainability without Justice: An Anthology on Racial Equity and Social Justice as a way to share guidance around ...
- Posted Oct. 29, 2021
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Diversity Report & Action Plan
- Cleveland State University (OH)
The 2019 - 2020 Diversity Action Plan builds on the Pursuing Inclusive Excellence document of 2016 with practical objectives designed to impact diversity at CSU and move the ball forward in ...
- Posted Oct. 6, 2021
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Humboldt Bike Share
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
Photo shows bicycles that are a part of the newly relaunched community bike share program, which is a partnership between Humboldt State University, the City of Arcata, and Tandem Mobility ...
- Posted Sept. 10, 2021
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Warrior Food Distribution
- California State University, Stanislaus (CA)
Warrior Food Distribution, a collaboration between the Stanislaus State chapter of the California Faculty Association (CFA), Student Affair's Warrior Food Pantry, and our community partner, the United Samaritans Foundation ...
- Posted Sept. 8, 2021
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UC Berkeley Student Engagement and Community
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
A variety of photos showing student life.
- Posted Sept. 8, 2021
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The Under-Told Stories team interviewing a community activist after the murder of George Floyd.
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
Under-Told Stories is a journalism project at University of St. Thomas’ Center for the Common Good. The project uses high quality video storytelling to help students understand and engage with ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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PCC Student Leader with Climate Rally Sign
- Portland Community College (OR)
A student leader at Portland Community College's Cascade campus shows off the sign they made for the youth climate rally during PCC's annual Eco-social Justice Day event. This ...
- Posted Aug. 30, 2021
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Odeyto Indigenous Centre - Seneca College
- Seneca Polytechnic (ON)
Odeyto Indigenous Centre - Seneca College built and opened a new indigenous centre at its Newnham Campus in 2018. Odeyto, the new home of First Peoples@Seneca, means “the good journey ...
- Posted Aug. 23, 2021
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Change Comes from the Margins: Sustainability Efforts in Community-Campus Partnerships
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
These are some images of the community collaborations mentioned in the essay, Change Comes from the Margins: Sustainability Efforts in Community-Campus Partnerships
- Posted Aug. 20, 2021
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Change Comes from the Margins: Sustainability Efforts in Community-Campus Partnerships - Community Collaboration
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
These are images of the community collaboration activities mentioned in our essay, Change Comes from the Margins: Sustainability Efforts in Community-Campus Partnerships.
- Posted Aug. 20, 2021
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Moving from “Sustaina-splaining” to Inclusion: Three Practitioners’ Learning Journeys
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
These are photos to support the essay titled "Moving from “Sustaina-splaining” to Inclusion: Three Practitioners’ Learning Journeys" in the "No Sustainability Without Justice" essay series.
- Posted Aug. 19, 2021
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Climate Rally for Justice
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
In Fall, 2018, CSUSM began holding climate marches with a wide variety of students, staff and faculty from across campus. This Climate Justice rally was one of the largest we ...
- Posted Aug. 19, 2021
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CSUSM Cougar Thrifts
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
In 2018, the Sustainability Program, in collaboration with our Environmental Stewards Association, Student organization, Associated Students Inc. and Office of Inclusive Excellence began holding free, accessible pop-up shops, which we ...
- Posted Aug. 19, 2021
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Connecting Sustainability with Social Justice by using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
In 2019, Megan Hammerschmidt (Graduate, 2020), was our first Environmental Justice Intern. She created this visual signage that was displayed during Earth Week, connecting the work of Inclusive Sustainability by ...
- Posted Aug. 19, 2021
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Citizen science sustainability at the University of Tasmania
- University of Tasmania (TAS)
As part of her paid internship through the Sustainability Integration Program for Students (SIPS), Zoe Bucher-Edwards organised a wild pollinator count with the University of Tasmania's entemologist and PhD ...
- Posted Aug. 19, 2021
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Moving from “Sustaina-splaining” to Inclusion: Three Practitioners’ Learning Journeys
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
These are the image files for the graphics within this submission for the AASHE essay series "No Sustainability Without Justice". The essay title is: Moving from “Sustaina-splaining” to Inclusion: Three ...
- Posted Aug. 11, 2021
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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.
PA 5: Diversity & Equity Coordination
- Description of the institution’s cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities
- Description of the diversity and equity committee, office and/or officer
- Website URL - Diversity & equity coordination
PA 6: Assessing Diversity & Equity
- Description of the diversity and equity assessment process
- Description of recent diversity and equity assessment findings
- Diversity and equity assessment report or summary (upload)
- Website URL - diversity and equity assessment report or summary
- Website URL - Diversity & equity assessment
PA 7: Support for Underrepresented Groups
- Non-discrimination statement
- Discrimination response policy or protocol
- Programs to recruit students, academic staff, and/or non-academic staff from underrepresented groups
- Programs to support students, academic staff, and/or non-academic staff from underrepresented groups
- Programs to prepare students from underrepresented groups for careers as faculty members
- Website URL - Support for underrepresented groups
PA 8: Affordability & Access
- Percent of need met, on average, for students who were awarded need-based aid
- Percent of students graduating without student loan debt
- Percent of entering students that are low-income
- Graduation/success-rate for low-income students
- Website URL - Affordability and access programs
Additional analysis on scores and quantitative fields can be conducted using the STARS Benchmarking Tool.