Publications
Introduction
AASHE’s publications library is the leading repository of reports, journal articles, books, and student research on sustainability in higher education. Certain publication types are entered in the annual AASHE Awards Program.
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Stewardship for Sustainability - a new strategy document at The University of Tasmania
- University of Tasmania
The University of Tasmania has recently launched Stewardship for Sustainability - a new strategy document.
Stewardship for Sustainability provides an approach that encompasses care, agency, accountability, and responsibility across our …
- Posted June 17, 2026
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Scope 3 GHG Emissions Accounting for Universities: Methodological Guide
- Réseau de l'Université du Québec pour le Développement Durable (QC)
The guide is available in English and French.
This methodological guide for quantifying Scope 3 GHG emissions is intended as a shared reference tool to help all Quebec universities share …
- Posted April 27, 2026
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Vision Statement for Sustainability Implementation
- University of Colorado Boulder (CO)
"The University of Colorado Boulder (CU Boulder) is committed to addressing the urgent sustainability challenges of our time. As a current higher education sustainability leader, we are building on a …
- Posted April 27, 2026
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The Plan for a Vibrant and Sustainable Campus: Sustainability & Resilience Action Plan 2025-2030
- Knox College (IL)
With the creation of the College’s first Sustainability & Resiliency Action Plan, Sustainability at Knox looks to the future, creating a comprehensive and holistic approach to integrating sustainability into Knox’s …
- Posted April 21, 2026
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AASHE Strategic Plan (2024)
- AASHE (MA)
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who contributed their time, expertise, and dedication to the development of this strategic plan. Your insights and efforts have been invaluable in shaping …
- Posted April 14, 2026
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Annual Report on Sustainable Practices
- California State University, Chancellor's Office (CA)
The 22nd Annual Report on Sustainable Practices highlights the achievements of the University of California’s comprehensive sustainability program in 2025. It includes progress in sustainable operations required by UC’s Sustainable …
- Posted March 4, 2026
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Evaluating decarbonization strategies across the University of California: A report of the Pathways to a Fossil-Free UC Task Force
- California State University, Chancellor's Office (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
- University of California, Merced (CA)
- University of California, Riverside (CA)
- University of California San Diego (CA)
- University of California, San Francisco (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
A 2025 report detailing University of California’s recommendations for eliminating its carbon emissions by 2045.
- Posted March 4, 2026
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UVA Sustainable Food Collaborative Impact Report
- University of Virginia (VA)
This impact report documents five goals spanning January 2024 through June 2025.
- Posted March 3, 2026
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EAUC State of the Sector 2025 Summary Report
- Environmental Association for Universities & Colleges (EAUC)
The State of the Sector 2025 research provides the clearest, most up-to-date picture of sustainability across further and higher education in the U.K. and Ireland. Based on responses from over …
- Posted March 3, 2026
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EAUC State of the Sector 2025
- Environmental Association for Universities & Colleges (EAUC)
The State of the Sector 2025 research provides the clearest, most up-to-date picture of sustainability across further and higher education in the UK and Ireland. Based on responses from over …
- Posted Feb. 4, 2026
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Decarbonization is Happening in U.S. Higher Education, but Carbon Neutrality Goals Alone are not Delivering it
- Hamilton College-Clinton.NY (NY)
- Smith College (MA)
Carbon neutrality emerged as an overall framework for climate action several decades ago, with the assumption that institutions would follow a carbon management hierarchy - reducing their own emissions (i.e. …
- Posted Jan. 21, 2026
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Climate & Sustainability Action Plan 4.0 FY25 Progress Report
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
The report, the first of five that the University has committed to publishing between FY25 and FY29, shares actions the University took over the last fiscal year to advance goals …
- Posted Jan. 15, 2026
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Environmental Sustainability Plan 2026–2030
- Australian National University
The Plan sets out how the University will reduce its environmental impacts, strengthen climate resilience and embed sustainability across governance, operations, research, teaching and community life.
- Posted Jan. 15, 2026
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Sustainability Action Plan - 2025-2030 Strategies
- Western Washington University (WA)
The Western Washington University (WWU) 2025-2030 Sustainability Action Plan (SAP) is a roadmap to reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and advancing related goals over the next five years. In 2017, …
- Posted Dec. 16, 2025
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Design Justice in Online Courses: Principles and Applications for Higher Education
- University of Central Florida (FL)
Design justice is an emerging framework that centers marginalized communities in the design of systems and technologies. Originating from the intersection of design, technology, and social justice movements, design justice …
- Posted Nov. 19, 2025
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Reducing achievement gaps: Exploring how learning by doing can support diverse student success.
- University of Central Florida (FL)
- VitalSource Technologies LLC (NC)
Formative practice applied for a learning-by-doing approach is widely known to be an effective learning method for all students, but for disadvantaged students in particular. Different student populations—ethnic minorities, first …
- Posted Nov. 19, 2025
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It’s Not Just About Paper Straws: The role of higher education in teaching sustainability across disciplines
- University of Central Florida (FL)
Integrating sustainability into higher education curricula is a trend and a necessity in today’s rapidly changing world. If our role is to prepare our courses to guide students for life …
- Posted Nov. 19, 2025
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Environmental Institute 2024-2025 Annual Report
- University of Virginia (VA)
The Environmental Institute funded over 50 faculty during the year and, since its inception, has engaged 170 faculty from 11 schools and 49 departments, centers, and institutes at the University …
- Posted Nov. 6, 2025
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23 TO CHANGE Report 1
- EDuC
This report includes the results of Join EDuC's first global campaign for a better understanding of higher education for sustainability. It offers a first look at the kind of insights …
- Posted Nov. 6, 2025
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Post-Landfill Action Network Impact Report (9/1/2024 - 8/31/2025)
- Post-Landfill Action Network (NH)
PLAN has supported student leadership by growing our Atlas Zero Waste and Students Taking on Oil & Petrochemicals Fellowship, supporting the first campus in the country to fully #BreakFreeFromPlastic in …
- Posted Nov. 6, 2025
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Harvard Sustainability 2024-2025 Snapshot
- Harvard University (MA)
A 2024-2025 report captures progress against goals and showcases sustainability solutions implemented in partnership with faculty, students, staff and the community.
- Posted Oct. 20, 2025
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MPact
- University of Minnesota System Office (MN)
MPact reflects the university's commitment to research, teaching, and service, open access to opportunity, and forward-thinking innovation to advance the university’s land-grant mission and impact the world. It produces annual …
- Posted Oct. 8, 2025
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Sustainable Development Goals Report 2024
- University of the Sunshine Coast
Unless otherwise stated, this report covers the period from 1 January to 31 December 2024 for the University of the Sunshine Coast.
- Posted Oct. 2, 2025
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Griffith University 2024 Sustainability Report
- Griffith University
Griffith University’s 2024 Sustainability Report marks a significant milestone in the University’s journey toward achieving its ambitious sustainability targets, aligned with the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Joining …
- Posted Oct. 2, 2025
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From Digital Natives to Smart Citizens: Empowering Tech-Savvy Students through Instructional Innovation
- University of Central Florida (FL)
- Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
The Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning (FCTL) at the University of Central Florida (UCF) recognized the growing emphasis on integrating sustainability education across diverse academic disciplines in higher education. …
- Posted Sept. 15, 2025
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Building sustainable smart cities on the hopes of tech-savvy students
- University of Central Florida (FL)
- Washington University in St. Louis (MO)
Abstract This paper outlines a comprehensive idea to transform urban areas into smart learning cities, leveraging innovative technologies to enhance education, innovation, and lifelong learning for all. Our research, based …
- Posted Sept. 9, 2025
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Greenhouse gas accounting for investment portfolios: quantifying financed emissions at a public research university
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
As the urgency of climate change grows, higher education institutions are increasingly accounting for, and reporting, their annual greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. An often-overlooked source of GHG emissions are those …
- Posted Sept. 8, 2025
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New Insights on Student Attitudes towards Sustainability in College Life
Veritrove surveyed 200 respondents, ages 16-24, from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware, and Maryland on sustainability, and college life. A key finding from the survey is that 30% of …
- Posted Sept. 8, 2025
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Beyond the Right Thing to Do: The Value of Sustainability in Higher Education (2nd Edition)
- AASHE (MA)
This document aims to help higher education sustainability practitioners more powerfully articulate the value of sustainability to higher education leaders as well as the general public. As different points will …
- Posted Aug. 26, 2025
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Carbon Neutrality Plan
- University of Windsor (ON)
Contents 1. Project overview, objectives and methodology 2. Current state analysis 3. Setting targets and establishing the campus roadmap 4. Financial planning, impossible, future project spotlights 5. Accountability
- Posted Aug. 20, 2025
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Climate-Related Financial Disclosure 2024
- University of Sydney
This voluntary climate disclosure for the year ended 31 December 2024 has been prepared in partial alignment with the Reporting framework for first year climate-related financial disclosures (TPG24-33), issued by …
- Posted Aug. 20, 2025
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Purdue STARS Performance Analysis
- Purdue University (IN)
In 2013, Purdue University submitted the school’s first official report to the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE) to capture the university’s efforts in sustainability via …
- Posted Aug. 19, 2025
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Actions and Hopes of the Sustainability-Focused Student
- College Pulse
A Student Voice survey of of 2,164 undergraduates from 114 colleges conducted by Inside Higher Ed and College Pulse in fall 2022 found that:
- Forty-five percent of respondents considered environmental …
- Posted Aug. 18, 2025
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The Challenges of Interrupting Climate Colonialism in Higher Education: Reflections on a University Climate Emergency Plan
- The University of British Columbia (BC)
In this article, the question is posed about how higher education institutions might begin to confront the connections between climate change and colonization. To address this question, the dynamics through …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Determinants of the dissemination of economic, social and environmental information at the university level in the context of commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals
- Universidad de Granada
In the context of universities' commitment to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the paper aims to analyse the factors that influence the degree of information disclosure related to the economic, …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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The influence of sustainability education on students’ entrepreneurial intentions
- American University of Sharjah
- Bucharest University of Economic studies
- Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja
Purpose:This study aims to examine the influence of sustainability education in 15 Indian universities and the mediating role of the theory of planned behavior in predicting students’ intentions to start …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Enlightening and empowering students to take action: Embedding sustainability into nursing curriculum
- Curtin University
- University of Wollongong
Graduate nurses are set to face complex global challenges in their future careers. Yet, current pedagogical practices fall short in preparing the future workforce for what lies ahead. There is, …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Electricity saving behavior in student dorms: What message framing works?
- Prince of Songkla University
Electricity consumption contributes largely to climate change. Inefficiently overused amounts of electricity can be reduced through low-cost feedback and nudges. We chose to frame different messages to alter the electricity …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Sustainability in supply chain management: using drawings to understand undergraduates' perceptions of sustainability
- Technological University Dublin
Purpose: This paper presents an interpretation of freehand drawings produced by supply chain management undergraduates in response to the question: “What is sustainability?” Having to explain sustainability pictorially forced students …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Exploring conceptions of sustainability education in initial teacher education: Perspectives from Australia, Canada and Scotland
- James Cook University
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Toronto (ON)
This paper draws on interview data to explore Australian, Canadian and Scottish teacher educators’ conceptions of sustainability education (SE) within initial teacher education (ITE). Findings were generated across three themes: …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Walking the talk: organising for social impact through performance management in European business schools
- University of St. Gallen
- Vienna University of Economics and Business
Universities, and business schools specifically, are experiencing a transformation of their societal mission. Similar to the STEM fields, business schools are nested in global competitive environments facing multiple competing pressures, …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Embedding a sustainability mindset in responsible management education
- Oxford Brookes University
Purpose: Organisational responses to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals depend on the competency and mindset of business leaders to lead responsibly. This study is informed and underpinned by the …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Seeing the wood for the trees: a heuristic framework to enable the integration of sustainability education in higher education settings
- Cardiff University
- De Montfort University
- Université Côte d’Azur
This paper puts forward a conceptual framework to support the dual challenges of strategic and practical integrative action of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) across Higher Education Institutions (HEIs). There …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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To know, feel and do: an instructional practice of higher education for sustainable development
- National Taichung University of Science and Technology
Purpose: The importance of multidimensional and engaging instruction for sustainable development goals (SDGs) in higher education cannot be overstated. Such instructions should motivate students not only to memorize and contemplate …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Sustainability and Environmental Communities of Practice’s Impact on News Content Diversity
- Michigan State University (MI)
Communities of practice (CoP) are distinct community groups that share a common interest in which they interact with one another to address problems and reach goals. In the present study, …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Transdisciplinary learning as a key leverage for sustainability transformations
- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Stockholm University
Learning and transdisciplinary research are widely acknowledged as key components for achieving sustainability; however, the links between these concepts remain vague in the sustainability literature. Recently, emphasis has been given …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Recommendations to align higher education teaching with the UN sustainability goals – A scoping survey
- Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
- Loughborough University
Global challenges such as climate change, limited resources, and an ever-growing world population demonstrate a perceptible impact on the lives of people around the globe. To tackle the arising issues …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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The Sustainability Literacy of Students: A Comparative Study between Turkey and the UK
- Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University
In recent years, the sustainability literacy has become crucial for building more sustainable future. In this regard, a shift toward sustainability requires literate society on sustainability issues at global scale. …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Integrating sustainability into a higher education science communication course
- University of Copenhagen
The global problems faced today call for universities to prioritize science communication education and training. This article describes how sustainability was integrated into a master-level course in science communication through …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Evaluation of UN SDG-related formal learning activities in a university common core curriculum
- The University of Hong Kong
Purpose: Higher education plays an essential role in achieving the United Nations sustainable development goals (SDGs). However, there are only scattered studies on monitoring how universities promote SDGs through their …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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