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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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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Analyzing the Impact of Corporate Social Responsibility on Employee Satisfaction Using a Hybrid SEM-ANN Approach
- University of Belgrade
In the conditions of modern market dynamics, corporate social responsibility (CSR) is increasingly evolving from a formal ethical principle into a powerful strategic instrument, key to achieving sustainable growth and …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Environmental Record a Factor for Most U.S. Job Seekers
- Gallup
About seven in 10 U.S. workers say that a company's environmental record matters to some degree in whether or not they would take a job with that company. This includes …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Uncovering perspectives on SDG integration for university transformations
- Monash University
Purpose: This case study explores different perspectives on integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in universities to achieve university transformations. This study recognises that university actors think differently about the …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Winning in the Marketplace and the Workplace: Activating the Workplace by Engaging Employees in Sustainability
- National Environmental Education Foundation (NEEF)
Engaged employees lead to better business outcomes. As companies look for ways to boost employee engagement, they are focusing on job purposing—the concept of linking an organization’s purpose and an …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Exploring the research trends in climate change and sustainable development: A bibliometric study
- University of Delhi
Climate change and sustainable development are interconnected and pressing global challenges requiring urgent attention. Researching the trends in climate change and sustainable development through a bibliometric study is essential for …
- 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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A pedagogy for the end of the world: teaching environmental health and justice in a sacrifice zone
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
This article describes pedagogical changes that I have made to my Environmental Justice class at the University of the Pacific in response to increasingly crisis conditions with regard to both …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Tree mapping and carbon inventory on a university campus in South Korea: Case study and global review
- Korea University
- Kyungmin University
- Sangji University
Campus trees have significant potential for sequestering carbon in urban environments and improving civic life quality; however, few inventories of university campus trees have been constructed worldwide (excluding North America). …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Status of Sustainability Management Education in African MBA Programmes: A Web-based Research Approach
- Midlands State University
- Vaal University of Technology
Emerging evidence suggests that business schools in Africa are lagging behind in promoting sustainability education. Grand challenges that point to a limited focus on transformative sustainability education such as environmental …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Life Writing for Sustainability Education
- Bowling Green State University (OH)
This paper argues that in order to address wicked sustainability problems, such as climate change and rapid biodiversity loss, it is necessary to draw from the humanities and use methods …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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$3 Million Gift Boosts Sustainability at CNU
- Christopher Newport University (VA)
The Redekop Family Endowment has donated $3 million to fund projects advancing sustainability at Christopher Newport University. The gift of $1 million for each of three years will support programs …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Exploring the moderating role of university environmental performance in shaping students’ environmental awareness and behaviors
- Bursa Uludağ Üniversitesi
- Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University
Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the moderating role of university environmental performance in the relationship between students’ environmental awareness and behavior, with a particular focus on …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Migrating towards Using Electric Vehicles in Campus-Proposed Methods for Fleet Optimization
- Korea Research Institute for Human Settlements
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville (TN)
Managing a fleet efficiently to address demand within cost constraints is a challenge. Mismatched fleet size and demand can create suboptimal budget allocations and inconvenience users. To address this problem, …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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The Future of Jobs Report 2025
- World Economic Forum
This report forecasts a net gain of 78 million jobs by 2030, driven by technology and green transitions. Based on insights from 1,000+ employers, the report highlights climate-change mitigation as …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Green campus and student proactivity initiatives: the importance of a participatory approach
- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa
- Polytechnic Institute of Leiria
Purpose: This study aims to examine the mediating role of students’ knowledge of sustainable development (SD) in the relationship between green campus initiatives by higher education institutions (HEIs) and student …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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The Intersection of ESG and HR
- Society for Human Resource Management
The March EN:Insights Forum looked at the effects of environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives on corporate goals, performance and HR effectiveness. The session explored the impact of these goals …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Emotions and transformative learning for sustainability: a systematic review
- Freie Universität Berlin
- Technische Universität Braunschweig
As multiple global sustainability crises worsen and become more existential, understanding how individuals undergo deep personal transformations related to sustainability is increasingly important. Transformative learning theories are widely used in …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Balancing sustainability and profitability
- IBM
Today’s executives walk a tightrope, balancing the long-term imperative to protect the planet with the short-term need to preserve the bottom line. In a landscape defined by chaos and disruption, …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Why Sustainability Is Now the Key Driver of Innovation
- Harvard Business Review
When companies pursue sustainability, it’s usually to demonstrate that they are socially responsible. They expect that the endeavor will add to their costs, deliver no immediate financial benefits, and quite …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Student Engagement and Environmental Awareness: Gen Z and Ecocomposition
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
This article collaboration addresses the importance of contextualizing current climate change discussions in twenty-first-century ecocomposition classrooms. It specifically focuses on the practical significance of what students’ writing and research can …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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Racially inclusive climates within degree programs and increasing student of color enrollment: An examination of environmental/sustainability programs.
- University of Virginia (VA)
- Vincent Evaluation Consulting (OK)
Students of color remain severely underrepresented in many science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines, including environmental fields. Although there is a growing body of research on predictors of selecting …
- Posted Aug. 13, 2025
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