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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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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The UBC Climate Studies and Action Certificate as a Response to the Climate Emergency Declaration
- University of British Columbia (BC)
This certificate is a response to the climate emergency 1. Creating justice centered, action oriented, accessible, interdisciplinary and hopeful climate education opportunities was one of six strategic priorities in the ...
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Innovative Approaches and New Networks Around Sense of Place and Connection to Nature
- Wellesley College (MA)
Undergraduate education often separates “place” from pedagogy. Incorporating place into pedagogical approaches through landscape “living laboratory” frameworks can provide benefits that include improving well-being, increasing “pro-environmental” behavior, and fostering a ...
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Supporting Roles for STARS: Regional Campus Libraries in Sustainability Initiatives
- Indiana University South Bend (IN)
- Indiana University Southeast (IN)
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Academic libraries are rich storehouses of expertise and initiatives that directly contribute to sustainability initiatives impacting both your campus and local service communities. These initiatives also contribute to ongoing reporting ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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The KCKCC Library Sustainability Research Guide: Resources, Literacy, & Engagement
- Kansas City Kansas Community College (KS)
This session will provide an overview of the Sustainability Research Guide created for the Kansas City Kansas Community College library. This guide has been crafted over several years and is ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Social & Financial Sustainability: What Is Its Role in the Sustainability Dialogue?
- Sonoma State University (CA)
Sustainability denotes many things to many of us. But to the majority in education space, if you have offered a sustainability course it means you have done something related it ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Education as Sustainability: Courageous Conversations in a Changing World
- Nipissing University (ON)
For the past ten years, we have been offering a PhD in Educational Sustainability. We recognize that “education for sustainability means educating for the emergence of a different, possible world ...
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Innovative Approaches to Teaching Sustainability
- Stanford University (CA)
This session presents learnings from the design and teaching “Leading Change for Sustainability,” a Stanford University course that is part of the Sustainability Science and Practice Master’s Program. It ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Bringing a Travel Experience Into the Classroom
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock (AR)
How material obtained from a university funded research project on sustainability focused on water conservation in Israel is used to create a learning module will be presented. The presenter created ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Submitting to “Case Studies in the Environment”: A Workshop for Authors
- University of Southern California (CA)
“Case Studies in the Environment” (CSE) is a peer-reviewed journal published by the University of California Press. The online journal publishes case studies, which provide nuance to environmental problem solving ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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The LEED Curriculum: A New Standard for Sustainability Education
- University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh (WI)
This session provides a comprehensive overview of The LEED Curriculum for college CTE and university undergraduate programs. Using the globally recognized LEED rating system as a framework, facilitator Heather McCombs ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Just Sustainable Leadership: Integrating Stakeholders
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Wicked environmental dilemmas (e.g. climate change) are difficult to explain, plainly define, have no one solution, and are often the result of other indefinable problems that require integrative collaborative ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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The Future of Work and Implications for Sustainability in TVET
- Colleges and Institutes Canada (ON)
According to many reports on sustainability, ambitious net-zero goals will require millions of workers to learn new job skills over the next decade. The world’s transportation, energy, and manufacturing ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Teaching & Learning (Group 2)
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to campus academics and operations. The Lightning Talks are: Behavior Change for Campus & Courses: Driving Engagement & Impact - This ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Using Self-Assessment to Extend Sustainability Competency Development
- MacEwan University (AB)
One of the key benefits of developing sustainability competencies is that they enable students to pursue future work and study opportunities within sustainability despite diverse fields and challenges. However, if ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Tools to Fill the Education Gap for Agenda 2030
- United Nations Sustainable Development Solutions Network (NY)
This discussion will cover the tools needed to fill the gap in higher education systems for Agenda 2030. The mission of the SDG Academy is to create and curate the ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Reimagining Field-Based Sustainability Learning: A Journey to Active Hope
- Dalhousie University (NS)
Conventional field courses are often focused on experiencing the outside world through the lenses of the natural sciences, where students learn and practice methods to measure and compare various biological ...
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Impactful Sustainability Curriculum: Supporting Faculty Implementation of High Impact Teaching
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
- University of Oregon (OR)
Integrating Service-Learning/Community Engagement (SLCE) into Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) can enhance student learning outcomes and competencies, across all disciplines. SLCE in higher education has been shown to enhance ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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The 2041 Project: Imagining a Positive Climate Future
- State University of New York at Oneonta (NY)
One of the essential tasks in responding to the ongoing climate crisis is imagining alternatives to current circumstances that could lead to possible, plausible, and positive futures. Simply absorbing data ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Teaching & Learning (Group 1)
- Lipscomb University (TN)
- Thompson Rivers University (BC)
- University of Liverpool
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to teaching and learning. The Lightning Talks are: Turning Out Graduates Who Can Promote Sustainability Within Organisations - This session covers ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Impactful Education for Sustainability Through Research and a Community of Practice
- University of Tasmania
For humanity to persist, we need populations with sustainability knowledge and practices. Higher education has the potential to contribute but there are many barriers preventing higher education actors from reaching ...
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Innovation in Sustainability Degree Programs
- Saybrook University (CA)
- Stevens Institute of Technology (NJ)
- International Society of Sustainability Professionals (ISSP) (OR)
Three ISSP Education Partners will lead a discussion on innovation within sustainability degree programs to meet industry needs and accelerate students within the profession. Topics will include integrating systems thinking ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Teaching Behavior Change Principles for Sustainability Careers
- Center for Behavior and Climate (FL)
- Behavior Development Solutions (FL)
As sustainability professionals, we know that to address climate change in the short timeframe we have left requires nothing more than transformational systems change. Sustainability programs have an urgent role ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Teaching Key Competencies in Sustainability Education
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
- University of Dayton (OH)
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
The Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (SCC) and the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) have launched a new series of materials for faculty teaching sustainability topics. The ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Integrating Climate Justice and Climate Change Into Curricula Through Community-Based Learning
- Portland Community College (OR)
Portland Community College’s 2021 Climate Action Plan: Resiliency, Equity and Education for a Just Transition calls for the college to support and encourage students to engage with sustainability and ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Achieving Deep Sustainability Through Hands-on Learning
- University of British Columbia (BC)
- University of the Fraser Valley (BC)
- Okanagan College (BC)
Achieving sustainability competencies often involves multiple skill sets, from abstract reasoning to applied and experiential learning. How exactly can sustainability competencies be demonstrated? How can these competencies be transferred to ...
- 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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Interdisciplinary Learning Community: Sustainability and Agriculture
- County College of Morris (NJ)
An interdisciplinary approach to environmental topics, such as climate change and sustainability, helps to bridge the gap between identifying an environmental concern and implementing a societal resolution. This presentation aims ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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High Impact Practices at Bridgewater State University’s Permaculture Garden and Local Farms
- Bridgewater State University (MA)
In this presentation, faculty from the Bridgewater State University Sustainability Program share their experiences of using the permaculture garden as a tool for their teaching, research, and scholarship. The goal ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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STARS Town Hall
- California State University, Chancellor's Office (CA)
- AASHE (PA)
The STARS Town Hall provides an opportunity to learn about the development of the next version of STARS (v3.0) and provide feedback on the program.
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Sustainability as an Office of One
- California State University, Channel Islands (CA)
- University of Louisville (KY)
Drawing on participant discussions from the past two years of live GCSHE Networking & Discussion Sessions, the presenters will provide an overview of best practices to overcome common challenges faced ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Institutional Change Through Guiding Principles and Honors College Vision
- Virginia Wesleyan University (VA)
Over the last ten years, the environment and sustainability have become major focal areas of Virginia Wesleyan University's curriculum, operations, and identity. In the last 3 years, Virginia Wesleyan ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Shooting for the STARS in Australasia and Helping Improve Global Application
- University of Queensland (QLD)
- University of Tasmania
Three Australasian universities recently submitted their first STARS report, each achieving a Silver rating after many lessons learned as new participants in the self-reporting framework. Each university is now working ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Does University Sustainability Affect Performance in Private Universities in Medellín?
- Universidad de Medellin
- Universidad EIA
The current context presents sustainability as a generalized concern of society, specifically the business sector, governments, and academia. For the specific case of universities, sustainability has been approached from different ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Inclusive and Transparent Virtual Engagement for Climate Action Planning
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- University of Florida (FL)
- Trust (MA)
The University of Florida Office of Sustainability, with the assistance of Dallase Scott of Trust, implemented a robust engagement process to update our Climate Action Plan. In updating its CAP ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Student Fellowship Programs in Sustainability
- New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology (NM)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
- Antioch University (OH)
This live networking and discussion session will be led by current National Wildlife Federation student fellows and program staff and will explore opportunities for meaningful fellowship programs and provide a ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Centering Sustainability and Well-Being in University Strategic Planning
- Colorado State University (CO)
When it was time to develop a new strategic plan, Colorado State University made a bold decision to put a thriving planet and a flourishing humanity at the center of ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Sustainability Change Agent Campfire Stories: Navigating Inherent Tensions
- Georgetown University (DC)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
Sustainability work in higher education requires a straddling of multiple dualities such as academic/operational, incremental/transformational, deliberative pace/sense of urgency, and risk averse/risk taking. This session will ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Fossil Fuel Divestment in US Schools: Lessons From Analysis
- Smith College (MA)
The fossil fuel divestment movement was started in 2011 as a response to the climate crisis. Since the first divestment announcement from a U.S. higher education institution (HEI) in ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Governance & Administration
- Austin College (TX)
- Ball State University (IN)
- Southern New Hampshire University (NH)
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to governance and administration. The Lightning Talks are: Harvesting Carbon Capital: Using the Carbon Credit Purchasing Program (C2P2) - This session ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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A Review of an Online International Sustainability Collaboration
- The College of Saint Scholastica (MN)
In spring of 2021, nine Chemistry and Sustainability at The College of St. Scholastica entered into an innovative active learning collaboration with five English-major Russian students at Petrozavodsk State University ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Advancing the SDGs through Education Abroad
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- The Forum on Education Abroad (RI)
It may seem that institutional goals for education abroad are at odds with institutional goals for sustainability. But what if your study abroad programming could actually advance one or more ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Bin Infrastructure Planning – Placement & Design Standards
- University of Michigan (MI)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
- Busch Systems (ON)
This session facilitates knowledge exchange on how & where to implement standardized, public-facing bin infrastructure.
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Campus Operations (Group 2)
- Stanford University (CA)
- Center for Resource Solutions | Green-e (CA)
- Timber Framers Guild (NH)
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to campus operations. The Lightning Talks are: Stanford Shines: A Decade-Long Decarbonization Journey .. and We've Just Gotten Started - The ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Lightning Talks: Campus Operations (Group 1)
- Louisiana State University (LA)
- Stanford University (CA)
- University of North Carolina, Charlotte (NC)
This session consists of 3 15-minute Lightning Talk sessions related to culture and communications. The Lightning Talks are: End-to-end Visibility into Operations for a Connected Zero Waste Campus - This session ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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The Break Free From Plastic Pledge
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
This holistic plastic elimination pledge has been signed onto by 19 schools-- Could you school be next? Learn about what our pledge is and how you can use it as ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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A Zero Waste Campus Is Possible
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
This session is an interactive presentation around how students can lead efforts to solve waste issues on their campuses by implementing new zero waste programs. We start with an overview ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Developing a Comprehensive and Efficient Recycling Operation
- University of Nebraska - Lincoln (NE)
This session will focus on steps the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL) has taken aimed at the development of a comprehensive and efficient recycling operation and the effect those steps have ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Compost Program Roll-out and Progression: Lessons Learned!
- University of Michigan (MI)
The University of Michigan will share an overview of their compost program progression, from the low-hanging fruit of composting pre-consumer waste from dining halls and commercial kitchens to implementing composting ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Tackling Single-Use Plastics on Campus - What’s Working and What’s Not
- George Mason University (VA)
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
Plastic pollution has been a problem for decades and the COVID-19 pandemic has only exacerbated it. A University of California, Santa Barbara, study concluded that between 2002 and 2015 the ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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