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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Building A Campus Food Recovery Project
- Swarthmore College (PA)
- University of Pittsburgh (PA)
Learn about food recovery innovations at Swarthmore College and the University of Pittsburgh!This session will provide an overview of the Food Lockers program at the University of Pittsburgh and the …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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The Impact of Plant-Forward Menus in University Dining Halls
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
- The Humane Society of the United States (MD)
In recent years, there has been a growing awareness of the environmental impacts of our food choices, spurring an increased demand for plant-based options among young people. This presentation delves …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Regionalizing the Food System While Achieving Sustainability Goals: NIU's Edible Campus Program
- Northern Illinois University (IL)
In response to the critical need for regionalization of our food system heightened by the challenges of the pandemic-induced supply chain disruptions, Northern Illinois University (NIU) launched the innovative Edible …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Toolkit to help Understand and Manage Campus Food Waste
- Clarkson University (NY)
- St. Lawrence University (NY)
Join us to start to develop an understanding of how and where your campus generates food waste (FW) and then how you can use that to lay out a framework …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Transforming Campus Food Systems: Cutting Scope 3 Emissions with Plant-Based Defaults
- University of San Diego (CA)
- Better Food Foundation (DC)
Join us for an inspiring, interactive networking session focused on transforming campus food systems to reduce Scope 3 emissions. If you’re a sustainability professional, faculty member, or advocate aiming to …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Overcoming Supply Chain Challenges to Increase Sustainable Food on UC Campuses
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
- SupplyChange
In 2023, the University of California launched a project to determine the key barriers and opportunities to increase procurement of local and sustainable food across our ten campuses throughout California, …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Real Food Standards 3.0 & AASHE STARS
- Real Food Challenge (AZ)
In 2021 Real Food Challenge (RFC) aligned values-based standards for real food with the partners in Anchors in Action (AiA): Healthcare Without Harm and The Center for Good Food Purchasing. …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Shifting Food Norms in Gen Z: How Student Values are Driving Changes to Campus Food
- Pomona College (CA)
- Better Food Foundation (DC)
As food takes a more prominent role in our sustainability initiatives—particularly efforts to reduce Scope 3 emissions—the cultural dimension of food can be a challenge for sustainability leaders who wish …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Sustainability Efforts with Beverage Companies - Networking Session
- University of Dayton (OH)
This is a networking session that will allow for individuals to share how they have leveraged relationships with beverage companies to be able to offer more sustainable packaging or products …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Addressing the paradoxical problems of food waste and food insecurity on college campuses
- Macalester College (MN)
During this session we will discuss two problems that are increasingly common on college campuses: food waste and food insecurity. Colleges often produce hundreds of pounds of food waste every …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Has the 1990s' "First Principle of Sustainability" Been Effective?
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
The success of energy efficiency innovations is usually not dependent on the technical attributes themselves, but rather on the attitudes of engineers and users who are satisfied with the status …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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EPA's Newest Effort to Advance Campus Energy Performance
- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (DC)
- United States Department of Energy (DC)
This session will delve into EPA's newest effort to compare and recognize the energy performance of higher education buildings. The effort, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy, relies on …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Leveraging IRA Incentives for Campus Decarbonization
- KPMG (NY)
In the evolving landscape of higher education, sustainability has become a cornerstone for institutional development and social responsibility. Please join KPMG subject matter experts for an engaging presentation and discussion …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Power Shift: How Ten Campuses Shifted to 100% Renewables
- Lafayette College (PA)
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- Wake Forest University (NC)
Many campus carbon neutrality goals are on the horizon. And yet, many campuses have also struggled to make significant progress. Renewable energy has emerged as the most cost-effective way to …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Achieving Net-zero Energy Through LACCD's Digital Twin Meta-Tech Initiative
- Los Angeles Community College District (CA)
- Jacobs, Inc (TX)
The greatest challenge of the 21st Century is global climate change. The Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) is the Nation's largest community college district covering approximately 900 square miles, …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Drilling Through the Carbon Barrier for Campus Decarbonization
- Boston University (MA)
- Tufts University (MA)
- BR+A (MA)
- Salas O'Brien (CA)
Many institutions pursuing carbon neutrality are running into challenges of cost and scale. While procuring renewable energy can address emissions associated with campus electricity, decarbonizing heating and cooling loads requires …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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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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Meeting the "Green Skills Gap" With the Climate Action Clinic
- University of New Hampshire (NH)
Hundreds of campuses have been actively tracking and managing their own carbon footprints for years yet this has not yet translated into large scale carbon management education and engagement programs …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Key Competencies and Best Practices for Sustainability Degree Programs
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
This Learning Lab is primarily for program directors wanting to design, evaluate, or improve a certificate or degree program at a Bachelor's or Master's level related to Sustainability. Participants will …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Education for Sustainability: Behavior Change Research
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Since the mid-1990s, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has insisted that achieving sustainability will depend on changes in behavior which need to be motivated by a …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Charting new futures for faculty development for sustainability
- Elon University (NC)
For almost two decades, the Piedmont Project at Emory University and the Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University have been used as models to support faculty who are interested in …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Embracing Crisis as Catalyst: Mobilizing SDGs in Post-Secondary Classrooms and the SDGs in the Classroom Toolkit
- York University
In the face of persistent disruptions and fractures in the post-secondary education sector, exacerbated by global events, it becomes imperative to reconceptualize crisis as a potential catalyst for positive transformation …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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A Faculty Meetup – Where do we go From Here
- Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)
- University of Hawaii at Manoa (HI)
This session is a collaborative gathering aimed at fostering open discussions among faculty members about future directions in sustainability education and initiatives. Several topics at the June Sustainability Education Forum …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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TASK - A Psychometric Tool for Measuring Meaningful Impact in Higher Education
- Sulitest
HEIs aiming to embrace sustainability face a common challenge: how to empower faculty to transform the curriculum in line with the SDGs and Earth crisis. To meet this challenge, Sulitest …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Teaching for Sustainability in the Pacific Northwest
- Seattle University (WA)
- Western Washington University (WA)
We are inviting academics and practitioners of sustainability to come to this session to discuss best practices in sustainability across the curriculum, and to share and network with other in …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Best Practices in Using the Campus as a Living Lab
- Rice University (TX)
- Santa Clara University (CA)
Using the campus as a living lab for applied sustainability learning is a powerful way for students to learn about sustainability and develop key sustainability competencies, and is an important …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Developing Sustainability Learning Outcomes & Assessment
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Developing a sustainability major, minor, certificate, or school? If so, you are likely crafting or updating learning outcomes and related assessments. This interactive Learning Lab will enable participants to be …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Pathways to Resilience: A Climate Education Leap at App State
- Appalachian State University (NC)
In this session, we will describe a case study of curricular transformation and lessons learned for individuals who want to create significant change in sustainability focused curriculum at their own …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Lessons Learned from the Organic Origins of Sustainability Curricula at Appalachian State
- Appalachian State University (NC)
Appalachian State’s deep embrace of sustainability curricula traces its origins back to an experimental general education program that existed from 1978-1983 called Earth Studies, housed in the Department of Interdisciplinary …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Sustaining Wholeness: Reimagining a Regenerative Graduate Landscape
- Prescott College (AZ)
- University of West Alabama (AL)
Obtaining a PhD can be a dehumanizing experience, especially for systemically marginalized scholars. Dominant culture in U.S. academia is often infused with colonial, patriarchal, racialized and heteronormative epistemologies. These epistemologies …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Essential Tensions in Graduate Training for Research-Practice on Urban Transformations
- Georgia State University (GA)
- University of Colorado Denver Business School (CO)
It is imperative that cities become more inclusive, safe, resilient, and sustainable, and society’s need to imagine, design, and implement innovative strategies has never been greater. Less clear is whether …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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STARS and Student Engagement for Sustainable Colleges and Universities
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
- Seattle University (WA)
- Binghamton University (NY)
- AASHE (MA)
The combined session features interactive discussions of three educational cases related to using STARS as a Living Lab. The first session, titled “STARS as Our Curriculum: An Institution as a …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Campus Sustainability Strategy - Tools, Framing & Inspiration
- University of Southern California (CA)
Does your energy level swing between euphoria inspired by student creativity and severe fatigue from back-to-back engagement activities? Do you question whether your office’s efforts are moving the needle? Until …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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TRUST, FEEDBACK, GROWTH - Cultivating a Resilient and Adaptive Team
- Trust (MA)
To move at the pace demanded by the climate crisis will require quick feedback loops and ongoing iterations of our work. A team can be stacked with talent - but …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Community College Networking Meeting
- Johnson County Community College (KS)
This session provides opportunities for community college sustainability staff/faculty/students to share their successes and challenges with each other. Additionally, the new AASHE Community/Technical College support community will be introduced.
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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The Road to AASHE STARS Gold: Changing the Face of Sustainability
- California State University, Dominguez Hills (CA)
There are several common challenges for higher education institutions when it comes to prioritizing sustainability on campus: lack of interest or support from upper administration, lack of resources and funding, …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Navigating AASHE's STARS v3.0: Reporting with Data Excellence and Stakeholder Engagement
- American University (DC)
In today's rapidly evolving sustainability landscape, accurate and transparent reporting is crucial for higher educational institutions to communicate progress and benchmark sustainability goals. This presentation will provide insight on lessons …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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International Networking Session
- AASHE (MA)
Join this session to network with attendees from outside of the US and Canada, learn about AASHE's work with campuses around the world, and the variety of global organizations that …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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AASHE Member Meeting
- AASHE (MA)
AASHE Member Meeting
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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HEI Administrators and Managers Networking Session
- University of Toronto (ON)
A “whole-institution approach” — involving departments, operations, and governance — is required to achieve sustainable, climate-positive campuses. The community actively engaging in and incorporating sustainable practices on campus now extends …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Take the SDGs Global with Education Abroad & International Services
- Texas A&M University (TX)
This session will examine the powerful synergy between sustainability initiatives and global programs. Presenters will demonstrate the impact of forging strategic alliances between your sustainability office and key players like …
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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Faith-Based Higher Education Institution Networking Session
- Loyola University Chicago (IL)
- Oklahoma City University (OK)
Faith-Based Higher Education Institution Networking Session
- Posted Feb. 28, 2025
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