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.

At a Glance

6596
Total Resources
1548
Organizations
38
Countries
55
U.S. States & Territories
8
Canadian Provinces

Bars in graphs can be clicked to view resources that align with a particular category. Because a resource may be listed under multiple topics and disciplines, graph data may include higher total counts than what is indicated in total resources above.

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Is the Word “Net” Compromising True De-Carbonization?

  • University of California, Irvine (CA)
  • M-RETS (MN)

Colleges and universities are relying upon “carbon accounting” that needs to be improved in order to meet our cardinal principle of evidence-based physical measurement. The physics of the grid—unless ...

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From the Amazon to Florida: Climate Change Education at Miami Dade College

  • Miami Dade College (FL)

This educational session will showcase how the high-impact teaching approaches used in Miami Dade College’s Global Sustainability and Earth Literacy Studies (GSELS) learning network are also efficacious climate change ...

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Determining a Proxy Carbon Price (Carbon Pricing 101)

  • Cornell University (NY)
  • Princeton University (NJ)
  • Smith College (MA)
  • University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)

This session in an introduction to carbon pricing and choosing a carbon price. For additional information on implementing a carbon price on your campus, please also attend the "Implementing a ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 strengthen ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Impactful Education for Sustainability Through Research and a Community of Practice

  • University of Tasmania (TAS)

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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Shooting for the STARS in Australasia and Helping Improve Global Application

  • University of Queensland (QLD)
  • University of Tasmania (TAS)

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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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