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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No Sustainability Without Justice, Volume II
- Allegheny College (PA)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- College of Charleston (SC)
- Howard University (DC)
- Trinity College (CT) (CT)
- University of North Carolina, Greensboro (NC)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- Winthrop University (SC)
- AASHE (MA)
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
- Harvard University (MA)
- Portland Community College (OR)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- University of Oregon (OR)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
- University of Vermont (VT)
- AASHE (MA)
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 how …
- 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 …
- 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, is …
- 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 photo was …
- 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 Candidate …
- 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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University of Virginia - Memorial for Enslaved Laborers
- University of Virginia (VA)
A Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at University of Virginia was completed in 2020. The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers seeks to formally acknowledge the work and the individual lives of the …
- Posted Aug. 11, 2021
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Sustainable development goals and higher education: leaving many behind
- Nelson Mandela University (Eastern Cape)
- International Education Association of South Africa
This paper critically interrogates the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in relation to higher education in low-income countries. While the SDG Goal 4, Target 4.3, calls for ensuring ‘equal access for …
- Posted May 28, 2021
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Defining Social Change as Social Action: HE's Role in Addressing Social Change
- University of Greenwich
Recent resurgence of the Black Lives Matter movement across the world is a reminder for HE institutions that we have a key role to play in enabling that our graduates …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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SCECon 21: Our World, Our Time, Our Voices
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
SCECon 2021: Our World, Our Time, Our Voices aims to recenter the environmental narrative around environmental justice by giving intentional space for students to learn about unique and intersectional environmental …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Inclusive Sustainability: Collaborative Approaches through UC Santa Cruz’s People of Color Sustainability Collective
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
The People of Color Sustainability Collective (PoCSC) works to make the University of California Santa Cruz (UCSC) a leader in sustainability and environmental justice, in recognition of our changing demographics …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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The Inclusive Sustainability Initiative at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM)
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
The Inclusive Sustainability Initiative (ISI) at California State University San Marcos (CSUSM) is an example of innovation and investment connecting inclusive excellence and sustainability. The term inclusive sustainability whether applied …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Integrating racial equity, social justice, and sustainability through general education learning outcome assessment
- University of Utah (UT)
In 2014, the University of Utah administration received a poignant letter from a group of passionate students suggesting that granting an undergraduate degree to any student without ensuring that they …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Incorporating Social Equity and Climate Justice into Climate Action Planning in Higher Education
- Portland Community College (OR)
Portland Community College’s 2021 Climate Action Plan: Resiliency, Equity and Education for a Just Transition (the CAP) centers people at the heart of creating benefits and solutions to the climate …
- Posted May 26, 2021
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Equity, Diversity, Justice, Inclusion Task Force, Catawba College
- Catawba College (NC)
The Equity, Diversity, Justice, and Inclusion (EDJI) Task Force at Catawba College aims to build a campus community where all members thrive by working to cultivate critical conversations and practices …
- Posted May 25, 2021
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Central Sustainability
- Central Michigan University (MI)
Prior to 2020, Central Michigan University (CMU) lacked an Office of Sustainability, or any structures which ensured the pursuit of sustainability initiatives on campus and in the community. Two student …
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Student Sustainability Coalition (SSC) Common Agenda
- University of Michigan (MI)
Establishing a Common Agenda as a significant first step under a Collective Impact Framework for rapidly improving social justice and environmental sustainability conditions on campus; using the drafting process not …
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Addressing Food and Housing Security among NC State University Students
- North Carolina State University (NC)
Since February 2018, when a report on student hunger and homelessness on NC State University's campus was released, the campus community has generated increased resources for students, conducted ongoing research …
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Indigenous Interconnections
- Swarthmore College (PA)
Project Name: Indigenous Interconnections Student Name: Daniel Torres Balauro Project Mentors: Aurora Winslade and Carr Everbach Project Board Members: Aurora Winslade, Director of Sustainability, Office of Sustainability Carr Everbach, Professor …
- Posted May 21, 2021
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Uniting for Organizational Change - Merging the Sustainability Office and Office of Inclusive Excellence
- California State University, Monterey Bay (CA)
In July, 2020 the Sustainability Office and the Office of Inclusive Excellence merged to form the Office of Inclusive Excellence and Sustainability.
The fields of sustainability, inclusion and social justice …
- Posted May 18, 2021
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The university went to ‘decolonise’ and all they brought back was lousy diversity double-speak! Critical race counter-stories from faculty of colour in ‘decolonial’ times
- University of Sheffield
- University of Manchester (Lancashire)
- Sheffield Hallam University (Yorkshire)
UK Higher Education is characterised by structural and institutional forms of whiteness. As scholars and activists are increasingly speaking out to testify, whiteness has wide-ranging implications that affect curricula, pedagogy, …
- Posted May 5, 2021
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Confronting the complexities of decolonising curricula and pedagogy in higher education
- University of Cape Town
- University of Pretoria
- SOAS University Of London (Middlesex)
Recent critiques voiced by students in both the Global South and North have turned attention to the ways in which higher education practices have been informed by, and continue to …
- Posted May 5, 2021
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What Can Decolonial and Abolitionist Critiques Teach the Field of Higher Education?
- University of British Columbia (BC)
In this article, I offer a critical reading of the higher education field-imaginary and its orienting assumptions, inspired by decolonial and abolitionist critiques. These critiques identify the constitutive and ongoing …
- Posted May 4, 2021
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DEI and Social/Environmental Justice Planning at University Sustainability Offices
- Tufts University (MA)
This document is a memo written by an intern at the Tufts Office of Sustainability. The memo benchmarks 22 institutions of higher learning, noting the plans and initiatives that related …
- Posted April 21, 2021
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Anti-Racism in Higher Education: A Model for Change
- Azusa Pacific University (CA)
Racism continues to persist in higher education and traditional diversity initiatives that focus only on support resources and tolerance training continue to fall short in making lasting change on college …
- Posted Feb. 22, 2021
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Unaligned connections or enlarging engagements? Tertiary education in developing countries and the implementation of the SDGs
- University College London (London)
Given that tertiary education (TE) is a sector often associated with exclusion, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), where only a small proportion of the population gain access, how …
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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Gendering Sustainability in Management Education: Research and Pedagogy as Space for Critical Engagement
- William Paterson University of New Jersey (NJ)
Gender issues have been well conceptualized in feminist organization studies. However, gender research has had limited practical effects, in part because it has not been well conceptualized in the sustainability …
- Posted Feb. 9, 2021
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“Just Sustainability” Environmental Justice Campaign Case Study
- University of Vermont (VT)
The UVM Eco-Reps have long existed to encourage sustainable behaviors in UVM students, faculty, and community members. After a summer of Black Lives Matter protests, six months of a global …
- Posted Feb. 8, 2021
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Intersectional Sustainability and Student Activism
- Southwestern University (TX)
- AASHE (MA)
In recent decades, universities have made significant progress toward environmental sustainability and have likewise tightened their budgets and restructured economic models in the name of financial sustainability. However, institutions of …
- Posted Feb. 4, 2021
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South Dakota State University Wokini Initiative
- South Dakota State University (SD)
The Wokini Initiative at South Dakota State University aims to increase the number of enrolled American Indian students, support their academic success, and boost their graduation rate. The groundwork for …
- Posted Oct. 26, 2020
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Investing in Racial Equity: A Primer for College & University Endowments
- Intentional Endowments Network (MA)
Investing in racial equity involves developing and committing to business practices that proactively identify and counteract racial inequities within a company or an organization, and allocating capital to intentionally and …
- Posted Oct. 23, 2020
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Humber College - Kenya Education for Employment Program (KEFEP)
- Humber College (ON)
Humber is the lead of the Kenya Education for Employment Program (KEFEP)-02 consortium working to harness the capacity of three Kenyan National Polytechnics to develop industry-responsive skills training programs and …
- Posted Oct. 19, 2020
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IUPUI Day of Caring
- Indiana University Indianapolis (IN)
IUPUI partners with the United Way to host a Day of Caring to support local social organizations across Indianapolis. This year, the IUPUI community volunteered with Growing Places Indy, a …
- Posted Oct. 15, 2020
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American University - Staff members and students involved in antiracism work at Antiracism Center
- American University (DC)
The Antiracist Research and Policy Center at American University generates scholarly research, educational tools, and policy analysis geared towards dismantling racism in its many forms.
- Posted Oct. 14, 2020
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Nova Scotia Community College - Rick Hansen Foundation Accessibility Certification™ Program (RHFAC)
- Nova Scotia Community College (NS)
In 2018, Nova Scotia Community College partnered with the Rick Hansen Foundation (RHF) to offer an Accessibility Assessor training course, making NSCC one of only two institutions in Canada to …
- Posted Oct. 14, 2020
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University of Saskatchewan - SCI2020 Indigenous Pathways
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
Student dancing at University of Saskatchewan graduation Powwow.
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Race, Equity, and Leadership in Schools
- Harvard University (MA)
Race, Equity, and Leadership in Schools, a program of The Principals’ Center, offers a historical and cultural context for understanding how inequality plays out in schools and provides educators with …
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Deep South Center for Environmental Justice
- Dillard University (LA)
The Deep South Center for Environmental Justice is dedicated to improving the lives of children and families harmed by pollution and vulnerable to climate change in the Gulf Coast Region …
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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Center for Urban Education
- University of Southern California (CA)
Since its founding in 1999, the USC Rossier Center for Urban Education (CUE) has worked to bring equity-mindedness to institutions of higher education through socially conscious research, tools and learning …
- Posted Oct. 8, 2020
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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.