Conference Presentations
Introduction
AASHE’s database of conference presentations includes thousands of abstracts and presentation materials from AASHE’s annual Conference & Expo as well as presentation materials from other sustainability in higher education conferences.
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Neigborhood Resilience, Using Waste to Build Justice Locally and Internationally
- Trevecca Nazarene University (TN)
Asia Pacific Nazarene Theological Seminary (APNTS) in Manila, Philippines is a ‘sister school’ to Trevecca Nazarene University (TNU) in Nashville, TN. Both schools are located in highly stressed urban environments …
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Story of Self: Defining Your Story to Connect to the Sustainability Movement and Advance Your Career
- U.S. Green Building Council (DC)
Every person has taken their own path to develop passion and drive in the sustainability field or chosen career. In “Story of Self,” we will define and leverage each journey, …
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Plenary: Organizational Leadership for Sustainability Education
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
As president of Unity College, Dr. Stephen Mulkey is a champion of sustainability science, which he sees as the defining framework for academic programming at Unity College. In just under …
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Veggies For All: Campus Food Bank Farm
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
Since 2011, our small college has been the home base for Veggies For All (VFA) – a community-scale agriculture project that works to relieve hunger by growing vegetables for those …
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Culture Clash: Art, Renewable Energy, Teaching, Accessibility, Research and Electrons Meet at the Solar Strand
- University at Buffalo (NY)
Sustainability is about being responsive to change and adapting; it is what fuels us to create a better tomorrow. Above all, it requires solving our problems with a different way …
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Fueling a Regional Environmental Movement
- University at Buffalo (NY)
Building a better future by definition is a collective effort, but often at times throughout the higher education sector we focus inward within our own institutions. While this is a …
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Alaska Jones Searches the UAF Utilidors for the Source of Power
- University of Alaska Fairbanks (AK)
Alaska Jones searches the University of Alaska Fairbanks utilidors to find the source of heat and power at University of Alaska Fairbanks. In 2012, UAF students entered the International District …
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Greeks Think Green
- University of Arizona (AZ)
In August 2012, the University of Arizona’s (UA) Students for Sustainability (SfS) developed an initiative to educate UA Greek Life in becoming more sustainable. Greek Life is the largest organization …
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Greening the Game: Football and Beyond
- University of Arizona (AZ)
In 2011, University of Arizona’s (UA) Students for Sustainability (SFS) saw an opportunity to bring together an entire community to embrace sustainability. Tens of thousands of fans populate the UA …
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Sustainability & Measuring Happiness
- University of Calgary (AB)
There is global recognition for the need to champion better indicators of social well-being. The United Nations resolution, 'Happiness: towards a holistic approach to development', recognized that, “...the pursuit of …
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UC Berkeley's Building Sustainability at Cal Class: The Integration of Social Justice Into Sustainability Education
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The Building Sustainability at Cal (BS@C) class is a unique course on the campus of UC Berkeley—gathering students from diverse disciplines to learn about and form the future of sustainability. …
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Sustainability Engagement at UC Boulder: IT Strategies for Behavior Change
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
The University of Colorado Boulder has been a leader in sustainability focused research, education and engagement for more than half a century. The campus is home to nationally recognized and …
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Pushing The Boundaries Of Student Sustainability Competitions With The Kukui Cup
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
In order to meet the sustainability challenges we face in higher education and the world, we need to understand the impact of our behavior, and what we can do to …
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Island Food Security through a Campus Community Garden
- University of Hawaii Maui College (HI)
The Sustainable Living Institute of Maui (SLIM) at UH Maui College began an endeavor to build a campus community garden in 2010. Almost three years later, and after many obstacles …
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Sustainability Scholars Roundtable: Stimulating Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research
- University of Louisville (KY)
Learn about how one university has stimulated transdisciplinary research collaboration in sustainability and resilience, despite four major obstacles. First, sustainability can mean different things in different disciplines, preventing common understandings …
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“You Can’t Measure That!” Measuring Affective Learning Outcomes in an Undergraduate Urban Sustainability Course
- University of Louisville (KY)
Traditional classroom assessments are unable to measure students’ development of the affective competencies and behavioral dispositions implicit in education for sustainability. This original research addresses the question of how to …
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An Innovative Way to Adapt to a Changing Education Medium: Using Interactive Multimedia-based Information Graphics in the Sustainability Curriculum.
- University of Mount Union (OH)
265 first-year students at a small Northeast Ohio liberal arts university were asked 14 questions to measure their knowledge of issues relating to sustainability. The questions and answers provided the …
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Evolutionary Development of University of North Texas
- University of North Texas (TX)
Critics of “sustainable development” tend to stigmatize the concept by labeling it as oxymoron. They believe that the concept is self-contradictory because “development” comes from the area of the dominant …
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How can we know that our educational efforts are working?
- University of Otago (Otago)
Some higher education institutions aspire to transform students into global citizens, able and willing to address the sustainability needs of the planet. Yet these institutions have limited capacity to evaluate …
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50 Shades of Green: An Examination of Sustainability Policy on Canadian Campuses
- University of Saskatchewan (SK)
While there is an abundance of literature on sustainability in higher education emerging within academic journals, there has been a paucity of research examining the uptake and implementation of sustainability …
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Flexible Urban Water Systems for the Adaptation of Campuses to Future Change Pressures
- University of South Florida (Tampa) (FL)
Water systems for new campuses or the major extension of existing campuses are designed for long operational life span of up to 50 years. However local change drivers such as …
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Using Decision Pathways to Adapt Coastal Areas to a Changing Climate under Uncertain Risk: a Study of Three Australian Local Governments
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
Risks associated with climate change are generally considered to increase as time progresses, but the degree to which this correlation holds for a specific coastal area is uncertain. When developing …
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Teaching Sustainability as a Contested Concept: Reflections from the Cascadia Sustainability Field School
- University of Victoria (BC)
Skepticism with respect to the self-evidence of truth claims in the ever-present context of power relations is central to critical scholarship. Concepts can and are used not as innocent representations …
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Love Food Hate Waste: A Case Study on Engaging Students and equiping them with life long learning skills
- Western Sydney University (NSW)
The global food system is under pressure from exploding population growth and food waste is a major issue throughout the world. We throw away millions of tonnes of food and …
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Using History to Build the Sustainable Campus of the Future: Three Case Studies on the Waterways of Wisconsin
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Creating a campus-wide commitment to sustainability begins with cultivating a sense of place. As campus communities learn to value their places, their landscapes, and neighborhoods, they build dedication to preservation, …
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Task Force Transforms Sustainable Strategies and Implementation For a Bicycle Friendly Campus
- University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee (WI)
A severe debt-service, a campus culture of parking pressures and contention, and a parking committee stagnated by budget pressures, all lead to the inaction on alternative transportation measures. Sustainability in …
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Financial and Physical Climate Change Resilience: Are Your Facilities Ready?
- URS Corporation (MD)
The slow but steady pace of climate change is producing rapid and drastic weather changes worldwide. These changes are challenging the ability of facilities to perform their most basic function, …
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Aggie Blue Bikes; How AmeriCorps Grants Can Bring Bicycle Lending to Your Campus
- Utah State University (UT)
Aggie Blue Bikes (ABB) is Utah State University’s (USU) premier bicycle lending, education and advocacy program; its mission is to get more people on more bikes, more often. Throughout this …
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Energy Efficiency at Valencia College: A Case Study of Retrofits and Building Automation, Green Construction, and Behavioral Savings
- Valencia College (FL)
Valencia College, a community college in Orlando, FL, constructed 66 buildings on five campuses between 1971 and 2012 and operates these buildings for their full life cycles. A critical aspect …
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Mobile Technology in Higher Education - An Evolving Component of Sustainability
- Walters State Community College (TN)
As mobile technology becomes more a part of everyday life, it brings with it the opportunity to change our educational processes in order to enhance learning, reduce costs, and improve …
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Beyond Sustainability: Resilience Thinking in Sustainability Education
- Warren Wilson College (NC)
Sustainability can be thought of as the ability of human communities to persist over the long term through equitable sharing of natural, economic and cultural resources within and across generations. …
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An In-depth Analysis of Waste Trends and Reuse Potential in Dining Facilities
- West Virginia University (WV)
In the United States, less than three percent of the 34 million tons of food waste generated was recovered or recycled in 2010. This represents the single largest component of …
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Monasteries :"What Campus Sustainability Programs Can Learn From Their Antecedents"
- Western Illinois University (IL)
This presentation reports on historical influences of rural monasticism and culture on current sustainability practices in higher education. Although not conceived or defined as sustainability, western European monasteries functioned to …
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Continuous Improvement: Restructuring Western Michigan University’s Office for Sustainability Internships to Facilitate Greater Comprehensive Success
- Western Michigan University (MI)
In an effort to be more relevant and more resilient, the WMU Office for Sustainability is adapting their internship program protocol and process to ensure greater success for the students, …
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Demystifying Bike Share: Explaining Current Systems, Options and Implementation Strategies
- Western Michigan University (MI)
Universities, colleges, cities, and towns have been looking to bike share systems to encourage ridership and to reduce the barriers to entry for bicycle transportation. Currently the system options in …
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Beyond Operations: Collaborating Across Campus to Change Food Culture
- Williams College (MA)
Effect culture change on campus with sustainable food programming. Learn how the Williams College Sustainable Food & Agriculture Program introduces diverse student organizations, campus offices, and academic departments to sustainable …
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Philosophy, Poetry, Sustainability: It’s all about Inspiring Deep Thinking
- Wright State University (OH)
The last few years have brought our mid-size primarily commuter school face to face with the image that we project and what we see reflected in the mirror. In the …
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An Historian's Critique of the Sustainability Triangle
- Xavier University (OH)
This paper examines the traditional sustainability triangle—economy, environment and society—from an historical perspective. I argue that the sustainability triangle and its attendant well-used concept of sustainable development arose during the …
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Growing An Integrated Urban Farm, Modular and Mobile
- Xavier University (OH)
With space constraints, a Master Plan that is a "moving target," and limited funds, Xavier University undertook to build a farm on-campus. The design choices at every step of the …
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Measuring Success
- Yale University (CT)
This presentation will focus on how to capture, disclose and manage sustainability performance metrics. The presentation will focus on how to develop and institutionalize sustainability performance metrics that lead to …
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Waste and Access: Communicating about sustainability between universities in developed and developing countries
- Yale University (CT)
Sustainability initiatives in the United States are largely focused on reducing waste in terms of materials, water, energy, fuel, and even time and money. In less economically developed countries, however, …
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Aiming Higher: The Rio+20 Report on Higher Education's Role in Sustainable Development
- Portland Community College (OR)
- Macquarie University (NSW)
Our presentation will highlight the efforts made by an international consortium of educators and higher education leaders at Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, to persuade delegates to …
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Preventing Burnout in an Age of Permanent Crisis
- New York University (NY)
"Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare." -Audre Lorde
As we care for ourselves, we become more effective activists and …
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Teaching Sustainability 101: How Do We Structure An Introductory Course?
- George Washington University (DC)
- Michigan State University (MI)
- Philadelphia University (PA)
- Roosevelt University (IL)
This panel discussion brings together 5 university instructors who have been teaching some version of "Intro to Sustainability" for at least several years. The panelists will share and compare their …
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Collaborative Approach to Understanding Faculty Research and Course Offerings
- Appalachian State University (NC)
As part of Appalachian State University's commitment to sustainability, a faculty inventory was conducted to determine the nature and extent of research, scholarly activity, and creative production that are associated …
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Experiential Learning in 'Sustainable Global Stewardship': A Costa Rican Case-Study
- Cal Poly Humboldt (CA)
This session will provide an overview of a sample interdisciplinary experiential study abroad program in 'Sustainable Global Stewardship' in Costa Rica. This will include a summary of program design through …
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Greening the Team: Enhancing the Sustainability of Collegiate Athletic Facilities
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
- University of Southern California (CA)
- Green Sports Alliance (OR)
- Natural Resources Defense Council (DC)
Athletic facilities are often the centerpieces of higher education campuses, where people come together and school spirit is built. They are also venues offering vast opportunities for positive impact on …
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Designing Introductory Courses in Sustainability for Undergraduate Learners
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Skagit Valley College (WA)
- University of Washington, Bothell (WA)
Sustainability programs have proliferated in colleges and universities recently, including lower division courses designed to introduce students to the issues of sustainability. But as a field of study, sustainability is …
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Sustainability Officers Workshop: Leveraging Leadership for Campus Sustainability
- Unity Environmental University (ME)
- Environmental Leadership Program (MD)
This workshop will focus on strengths-based leadership and systems thinking for the sustainability professional. Participants will map your own personal and professional strengths while considering how those strengths can move …
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Creating a Sustainable Campus Culture through Student Engagement: Capitalizing on Living-Learning Communities and Creative Inquiry Teams
- Clemson University (SC)
- University of South Carolina (SC)
The Leading and Innovating for Our Environment and Future (LIEF) program is a movement on Clemson University's campus to cultivate a culture of sustainability. Students, faculty, and staff are teaming …
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