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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LGBTQIA+ Meet-Up
- University at Buffalo (NY)
This session is for any individual from the LGBTQIA+ community that wants to connect with others in the AASHE network. It will be a safe space to build relationships and …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Exploring the Intersection of EDIA and Sustainability in HEIs
- University of Toronto (ON)
Environmental issues have a disproportionately negative effect on marginalized communities. Equity, diversity, inclusion and accessibility (EDIA) is a prevalent topic in environmental studies, and there is a growing interest in …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Building the Pipeline (Not the Fossil Fuel One!)
- Tufts University (MA)
This session is about accelerating and diversifying climate leadership. The sustainability sector often reflects a lack of diversity, with a predominance of white employees, especially in higher-level positions such as …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Community Colleges and Just Transition: The Tribal Stewards Program and Leading With Equity
- Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (WA)
The Tribal Stewards program in Washington Community and Technical Colleges seeks to reconstruct workforce education to support Tribal student success, leadership, and economic mobility. We will explore how we have …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Embracing the Queerness of our Work
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
- University at Buffalo (NY)
- University of Central Florida (FL)
As the world grapples with climate change, it is essential to recognize that sustainability extends beyond ecological practices. It encompasses diverse identities, including those of LGBTQIA+ students and professionals. Our …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Sustainability Without Equity - Responding to Anti-DEI Bills
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
The three E's of sustainability are the environment, economy, and equity. Over the past year, we have seen dramatic changes in higher education concerning the third E, namely in diversity, …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Equity in Campus Decarbonization: Insights from UC Campus Studies
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- JLL (IL)
- Inclusiv
University of California academic and health campuses are pursuing decarbonization studies to identify how to eliminate 90% of the emissions from fossil fuels on campus. As part of the study …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Shifting the Approach: Greening Abolitionist Teaching for Inclusive Sustainability
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
In recent years, there has been growing criticism within environmental/sustainability curriculum and within the sustainability field, in general, regarding the implicit racism embedded in the institutions that train future environmental/sustainability …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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It's All Connected! Climate Change, Social Justice, Basic Needs Support and Student Leadership
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
- Portland Community College (OR)
Implementing a new student leadership development program during a global pandemic, national uprising due to political and social unrest and climate-fueled fires was challenging, to say the least. However this …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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The HBCU Climate Action Blueprint: Sustainable Campuses, Empowered Communities
- United Negro College Fund (GA)
Released at the 2024 Higher Education Climate Leadership Summit, "The HBCU Climate Action Blueprint: Sustainable Campuses, Empowered Communities" explores the current activities and future aspirations of Historically Black Colleges and …
- Posted Feb. 27, 2025
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Ben Jealous Masterclass
- Boston University (MA)
- Sierra Club (DC)
With experience leading social change organizations from the NAACP to the Sierra Club, Benjamin Jealous will make the case that we cannot solve the climate crisis without also tackling racial …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Empowering Change: HBCUs, PBIs, and Sustainability
- United Negro College Fund (GA)
Join us for an engaging and thought-provoking table talk discussion as we delve into the dynamic intersection of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), Predominantly Black Institutions (PBIs), and Sustainability. …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Raven Medicine Cloud: Indigenous Placemaking at the University of Manitoba
- University of Manitoba (MB)
As part of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Action, the Office of Sustainability at the University of Manitoba (UM) is developing strategies and programming to …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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The Role of EDI Officers in Weaving Together a More Just and Sustainable World
- Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges (WA)
We know that diversity expands the collective. Beyond dimensions of race, diversity must involve the holistic engagement of peoples, systems of knowledge, experiences, and ideas. Commitments to equity that live …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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From Pride to Planet: Queer Communities and Climate Justice
- Rochester Institute of Technology (NY)
- University at Buffalo (NY)
Climate change is one of the greatest threats faced by people and nature worldwide, but marginalized communities feel the impacts of this threat more severely than others. Although these communities …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Dr. Beverly Daniel Tatum Masterclass
- Georgetown University (DC)
- Spelman College (GA)
Drawing from her experiences as president of Spelman College and Mount Holyoke College as well as her research on race and education, Dr. Tatum will speak about the opportunities for …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Building Climate Resilience and Centering Equity: Case Studies from the University of California
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, San Diego (CA)
- Introba
Equity-Centered climate-resilient planning is a vital component of responding to the challenges posed by a changing climate. The University of California (UC) system has taken a proactive approach to developing …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Channeling Climate Anxiety Toward Collective Action Through the Employee Resource Group Model
- Marquette University (WI)
While working groups and committees are effective for achieving collaborative sustainability outcomes on campuses, these structures do not always prioritize community building or foster wellbeing. This session will look at …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Growing Future Change Makers: Restorative Pathways for Diverse Students and the Planet
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
For a number of years, it has been a priority to integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into sustainability programs for institutions of higher education, yet colleges and universities have struggled …
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Black and Brown Bodies in Green Spaces. How to Create Structural Change in the Zero Waste Movement
- Generation Conscious, Inc. (NY)
Join G.L. Genco as he shares his story on the founding of Generation Conscious and how he builds networks and power for intentionally exploited communities. Through this discussion, he'll share …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Keynote: Tyson Yunkaporta
- Deakin University
- Australasian Campuses Towards Sustainability (ACTS) (Queensland)
"All humans evolved within complex land based cultures over deep time to develop a brain with a capacity for over 100 trillion neural connections of which we now only use …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Keynote: Amali Tower
- University of Miami (FL)
- Climate Refugees (NY)
"We’ve got to approach climate displacement as a human security issue and not a border security issue." Amali Tower is a refugee and migration expert and the Founder and Executive …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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High Impact Inclusion and Sustainability
- University of the Fraser Valley (BC)
This interactive session discusses the convergence of inclusion work and sustainability. It acknowledges how legacies of inequity contribute to the climate crisis and articulates why diversity and inclusion are critical …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Is a Campus a Community if Everyone Isn’t Paid a Living Wage?
- Saint Joseph's University (PA)
Oxfam America reports that 52 million people in America are paid less than $15 per hour, accounting for 31.9% of the U.S. workforce. Women and people of color are over-represented …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Student-Led Initiatives Increasing Sustainable Purchasing
- Butler University (IN)
- University of Oregon (OR)
The combined purchasing power of colleges and universities is staggering, touching on everything from pens to consultants to multi-million dollar buildings. Because of this consumer power, colleges and universities can …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Centering Justice and Equity in Environmental Center Work
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
The US environmental field has long been plagued with egalitarianism and exploitation of populations already disenfranchised. Unfortunately, this has led to an exclusionary approach to tackling the world’s greatest crisis, …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Racial Equity & Social Justice
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- University of Illinois Chicago (IL)
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to campus operations. The Lightning Talks are: Accelerating University-Community Partnerships for Climate Justice - This session introduces best practices to …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Creating Institutional Change for Social and Environmental Justice
- Saint Joseph's College - ME (ME)
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
- University of the Fraser Valley (BC)
Academics and observers have for decades called for holistic conceptions of higher education for sustainable development, environmental education, and related ideas, that go beyond relatively narrow projects of “greening their …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Environmental Justice & Nature Immersion: A Collaborative Partnership
- North Hennepin Community College (MN)
- YMCA of the North (MN)
GCST 1970 is a nature-based, credit-bearing program for North Hennepin Community College and high school students from Brooklyn Park, MN, in partnership with the YMCA and Three Rivers Park District. …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Building Social Sustainability in Food Procurement
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Nearly two and half years since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, academic institutions continue to grapple with disrupted supply chains and their embedded inequities, which further exacerbated the challenging …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Engaging Students and Curricula to Create a More Sustainable and Equitable University Food System
- Naropa University (CO)
Join us for a step-by-step explanation of a curriculum-based, community development approach to creating a more sovereign, secure and sustainable food system at Naropa University. Discover how staff and faculty …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Building Decarbonization Education for the Next Generation
- Howard University (DC)
- Stanford University (CA)
In order to prepare the next generation of building professionals, engineering education must adapt. The Stanford Building Decarbonization Learning Accelerator (BDLA) provides free teaching resources to professors so they can …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Essential Food Workers and University Purchasing Power
- Georgetown University (DC)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
Food workers are essential, yet they endure wage theft, harassment, trafficking, discrimination, and hazardous working conditions. As institutional purchasers, universities have the purchasing power to improve labor conditions within their …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Green Bamboo Ceiling - The State of APIs in Higher Education and Sustainability
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- Western Washington University (WA)
In sustainability there is a green ceiling that is a challenge to get people of diversity into leadership roles. In addition, if you are Asian Pacific Islander (API), you have …
- Posted May 17, 2023
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How the Design of National-Scale Environmental Education Programs Support Equity and Inclusion
- University of Texas at Arlington (TX)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
In this session, two National Wildlife Federation EcoLeader Graduate Student Fellows will present the findings and recommendations of their recent research exploring how the design of the NWF EcoLeaders Program …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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An ‘EDJI’ Conversation: Believing in Equity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion at Catawba College
- Catawba College (NC)
Join co-chairs, Dr. ChaMarra Saner and Dr. Mercedes Quesada-Embid, in conversation for a podcast-style session centered on successful strategies, unanticipated accomplishments, systemic challenges, surprising opportunities, and mobilizing moments related to …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Badger Tour
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
The UW-Madison Sustainability Interns take a tour of the campus, highlighting its sustainability features, the 10,000 years of indigenous history, and the iconic places and spaces that make the campus …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Keynote Presentation with Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues. …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Integrating Equity and Basic Needs Programs into Higher Education Sustainability Initiatives
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
Amidst a global pandemic the expectations and experiences for students within their higher education institutions are indicating increased challenges to well-being and student success. International to first generation and non-traditional …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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BIPOCs in Sustainability Networking
- AASHE (MA)
This networking and discussion session will ideate around best practices and strategies sustainability professionals can use to center BIPOC voices. We aim to provide a safe space while giving voice …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Fun with Food Systems: Creative Ways to Increase Food Sovereignty and Build Community Remotely
- Portland Community College (OR)
Food shortages skyrocketed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and community college students were notably affected. Normal campus supports such as in-person food pantries, learning gardens, and our campus …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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College Campuses as the "Great Equalizer" - Or Are They: A Critical Perspective to Sustainability
- Winthrop University (SC)
College campuses have often been touted as the great equalizer, a place where those who are marginalized, either racially or economically, have as much ability to succeed as their non-marginalized …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Growing Future Leaders: How to Foster Growth in Sustainability Leadership Programs
- Bentley University (MA)
- Boston University (MA)
- Tufts University (MA)
- GreenerU (MA)
In this session, you will hear from the sustainability offices with well-developed student leadership programs, and share your questions, suggestions, and learn lessons from being a student leader or managing …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Creating an Equity-Based Climate Action Plan Through Stakeholder Engagement
- Portland Community College (OR)
- GreenerU (MA)
Many college campuses are looking for paths to climate neutrality - that is - reducing and sustaining zero-emissions operations. Climate action planning is one strategy to achieve this goal. But …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Change Management Campfire Stories: Telling Stories About Our Stumbles and What We Learned
- Georgetown University (DC)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
This session will provide a virtual campfire story swap where long-time campus sustainability professionals will talk about their stumbles, unexpected outcomes, how they felt, and what they learned. The saying …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Advocacy for Justice: Classrooms, Colleagues and Community
- Catawba College (NC)
This session will provide an opportunity for an in-depth and perceptive discussion surrounding the intersections of justice across the varied social landscapes within Higher Education. Connected to this is an …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Sustainably Revisioning the Future: Insights to Build Upon from the COVID-19 Pandemic
- Texas A&M University-Commerce (TX)
- University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (WI)
The COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique global opportunity to reset longstanding practices. The societal, economic, and environmental challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic have reached every facet of life …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Keynote Presentation with Heather McGhee
- Portland Community College (OR)
- AASHE (MA)
Heather McGhee designs and promotes solutions to inequality in America. She is the author of The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together (2021). …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Moving from 'Sustaina-splaining' to Inclusion
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
This presentation will highlight the work of several professionals (2 sustainability officers, 1 diversity, equity and inclusion practitioner and 1 campus center director) at two California universities. We will will …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Keynote Presentation with Dr. Michael J. Sorrell
- Paul Quinn College (TX)
- University of Texas at Arlington (TX)
Named one of America’s 10 Most Innovative College Presidents, Dr. Michael J. Sorrell is pioneering the “New Urban College Model” as the President of Paul Quinn College. With a rallying …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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