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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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Integrating a sustainability education model into STEM courses at a tribal college
- Arizona State University (AZ)
Indigenous scholars have been historically excluded from Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) and are currently underrepresented in STEM degree programs and jobs. Having a population with STEM skills is …
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Combining best practices framework with benchmarking to advance principles for responsible management education (PRME) performance
- University of Calgary (AB)
Higher education institutions play a critical role in shaping a more sustainable world. There is limited research on ‘how’ business schools can effectively take the UN PRME's Sharing Information Progress …
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Teaching sustainability within the context of everyday life: Steps toward achieving the Sustainable Development Goals through the EUSTEPs Module
- Global Footprint Network (CA)
- Universidade Aberta
- University of Coimbra
- University of Aveiro
- University of Siena
- Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Kentriki Makedonia)
In a world characterized by Ecological Overshoot, where humanity demands more from natural ecosystems than they can sustainably renew, education can nurture sustainability-minded citizens and future leaders to help accelerate …
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Sustainability Initiatives for Management Education: A Roadmap for Institutional Integration
- University of San Francisco (CA)
- Zambuling Institute for Human Transformation (DC)
- Sustainable Capacity International Institute
What are the best ways to integrate sustainability concepts into higher education institutions and management education? Sustainability, global responsibility, and social innovations are increasingly accepted worldwide as part of a …
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Active methodologies and curricular sustainability in teacher training
- University of Jaén
- Universidad de Granada
Purpose: Changes in society, the economy and health require a response from higher education regarding the training of professionals, specifically, future teachers. In this sense, active methodologies constitute, in line …
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Empowering Future Leaders to Advocate Sustainable Action: A comparative analysis between two university programmes focusing on leadership and sustainability in Sweden and Germany
- Malmö University
Sustainability must be integrated into our everyday world. To achieve that, Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) were established. Some scholars agree that the SDGs are not enough. So, a new strategy …
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Eco-critical language awareness for English language teaching (ELT): Promoting justice, wellbeing, and sustainability in the classroom
- University of Alabama (AL)
Critical Language Awareness (CLA) seeks to promote social justice by explicitly calling attention to power issues in the context of literacy development and language instruction. In this article, we assert …
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Waste governance and campus sustainability: formal and informal waste systems at football tailgates in Michigan
- Michigan State University (MI)
- University of St Andrews (Scotland)
Purpose: Football tailgating is a focus of campus sustainability in the United States because it produces large amounts of waste. In states where recyclables can be redeemed for cash, this …
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Bibliometric Analysis and Benchmarking of Life Cycle Assessment of Higher Education Institutions
- University of Coimbra
Higher Education Institutions (HEI), such as Universities and Institutes worldwide, are making efforts and setting goals to assess and minimise their environmental impacts, and to become more sustainable. Life Cycle …
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Social Capital, Indigenous Storytelling, and Fish Diversity: Learning Together Through Community-university Partnerships in Downeast Maine
- University of Maine (ME)
Not only can community-university partnerships be vehicles for mobilizing community resources and affecting change, they also have high potential to produce useful, nuanced research and enable renewed visions of trust. …
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Students’ attitudes towards campus sustainability: a comparison among three universities in Sweden
- Jönköping University
- Diponegoro University
The role of higher education institutions (HEIs) in promoting and supporting sustainability has outstretched over the past decades as a result of various declarations and commitments related to the need …
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Internationalisation, sustainability and the contested environmental impacts of international student mobility
- University of St Andrews (Scotland)
- The James Hutton Institute
Purpose: This paper aims to stimulate the nascent research agenda on the environmental sustainability of the ongoing mushrooming of international student mobility (ISM). The higher education (HE) system in the …
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Examining undergraduate students’ systems thinking competency through a problem scenario in the context of climate change education
- National Sun Yat-sen University
Higher education plays an important role in preparing future citizens and leaders with the capacity to address systemic issues behind complex problems such as climate change. There have however been …
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Experiential Learning for Sustainability in Supply Chain Management Education
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Tecnológico de Monterrey (Nuevo Leon)
- Aston University
This work is about sustainability-related learning experiences for the discipline of supply chain management (SCM) in Higher Education. It arises from the need to motivate students with relevant and interesting …
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Agents for sustainable futures? The (unfulfilled) promise of sustainability at leading business schools
- Budapest Business University
- Eötvös Loránd University
Present and future business leaders might be amongst the most important actors in initiating and managing a transition towards a sustainable economy and society in general. Preparing them for such …
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A New Curriculum for Sustainable Fashion at Textile Universities in Europe – Preliminary Results of the European Project Fashion Diet
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- Friedrich Schiller University Jena
- Gheorghe Asachi Technical University of Iasi (Iași)
- University of Freiburg (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg)
- Trakia University
- Hochschule Reutlingen
The strong demand for a transformation of the textile and fashion industry towards sustainability requires a continuous implementation of the guiding principle of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in education …
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Sustainability Rankings: What they are About and How to make them Meaningful
- RMIT University
Higher education institutions (HEIs) have long embraced a path towards sustainability and engaged in supporting sustainable development. The adoption of the sustainability development goals has forced HEIs to assess how …
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Justice in climate change education: a systematic review
- Colorado State University (CO)
- University of Cincinnati (OH)
Growing recognition of the multi-faceted injustices of climate change has resulted in shifting public and policy discourse around how to understand and address climate change, yet justice considerations are rarely …
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Planetary health pedagogy: Preparing health promoters for 21st-century environmental challenges
- Deakin University
Issue addressed: Multiple interconnected drivers threaten the health and wellbeing of humans and the environment, including biodiversity loss, climate change, pollution, rapid urbanisation and displacement. This requires enhanced literacy on …
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Politicizing the learning of Sustainable Development Goals through drama performances and agonistic debates: a teacher training experience from the perspective of radical democracy
- Universitat de València
Based on empirical evidence, this research aimed to offer a methodical approach to politicizing the apprenticeship of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) through drama performances and agonistic debates from the …
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CUB Plastic Shipping Bag Recycling Program
- Gettysburg College (PA)
We implemented a plastic shipping bag recycling program at Gettysburg College. Recycling bags contribute towards contamination within the college's single-stream recycling or end up directly in the landfill via traditional …
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Preliminary Investigation of Sustainability Awareness and Activities among Academic Libraries in the United States
- University of Southern California (CA)
This paper explores sustainability, sustainability awareness, and how it is measured in academic libraries in the United States, and considers how assessment tools or key performance indicators (KPIs) could enhance …
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Teaching students to collaborate with communities: expanding engineering education to create a sustainable future
- Georgia Institute of Technology (GA)
Engineers are crucial to solving the world’s most pressing challenges, but they cannot do it alone. Creating new and more just systems that support people and planet requires that engineers …
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Inclusion and social justice in sustainable higher education: An integrated perspective through the lens of public engagement
- Sapienza Università di Roma
- Università di Roma LUMSA
- Università degli Studi del Sannio
The objective of this paper is to investigate the commitment of universities in terms of inclusion and social justice in the light of the opportunities offered by university public engagement …
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Understanding the Research Interlinkages Between Anthropocene, Millennium and Sustainable Development Goals: A Global Bibliometric Analysis
- Presidency University
- Guangzhou University
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are impacted by the Anthropocene's onset, hence critical actions must be taken to develop tailored policies for these goals. This research aims to understand the interaction …
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Connecting curricula and competence through student learning journeys
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
This research examines the connection between higher education curricula for sustainable development and student development of key competencies for sustainability. The authors conducted a comparative case study that followed ten …
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Development of education for sustainable fashion design using a challenge-based learning approach
- Hongik University
This study proposes a model for sustainable education in fashion design through the development, implementation, and assessment of a specific curriculum. It employed the challenge-based learning (CBL) approach to facilitate …
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How to increase students' motivation to engage in university initiatives towards environmental sustainability
- Universitat de València
- Universidad Tecnica del Norte
Nowadays, it is of vital importance to make students aware of the problems that can be generated by the deterioration of the environment. The purpose of this study is to …
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Ecosystem guidance for the incorporation of renewable utilities in a multi-use campus network
- Texas A&M University (TX)
Configuring the network connections in industrial, power, and water networks to mimic the structural patterns of ecological food webs has been shown to improve the resilience of human networks. This …
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Incentives and penalties tied to sales volume in contracts between beverage companies and public universities in the United States
- Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (MD)
- Center for Science in the Public Interest (DC)
To assess whether and how beverage companies incentivize universities to maximize sugar-sweetened beverage (SSB) sales through pouring rights contracts. Cross-sectional study of contracts between beverage companies and public U.S. universities …
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Beyond the COVID-19 Pandemic: Can Online Teaching Reduce the Carbon Footprint of the Internationalisation of UK Higher Education?
- University of Sussex (Sussex)
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a learning curve for Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) in devising and delivering teaching online. This transition has enabled HEIs to continue teaching students, especially international …
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Addressing the Challenges of Preparing Teachers to Teach about the Climate Crisis
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
Teachers often lack adequate teacher preparation in knowledge and practices for engaging their students to address the climate crisis, suggesting the need for an increased focus on climate change in …
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Incorporating collaborative learning in teacher education to foster self-efficacy to implement environmental citizenship: an action research
- Kibbutzim College of Education, Technology and the Arts (Tel Aviv District)
Purpose: Engaging students in environmental citizenship to promote education for sustainability (EfS) as an explicit goal of academic courses is not common, notwithstanding wide consensus on its importance. Collaborative learning …
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Understanding the roles of universities for sustainable development transformations: A framing analysis of university models
- Monash University (VIC)
Scholars have proposed university models for creating a sustainable future in response to mounting calls for universities to rethink their roles in society. These university models include the Human Development …
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The college campus as a living laboratory for meaningful food system transformation
- University at Albany (NY)
- Johnson & Wales University, Providence (RI)
As has become abundantly clear to the social scientists, agriculturalists, policymakers, and food justice advocates who have taken up the fight, progress toward more resilient, fair, and effective food systems …
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From food access to food sovereignty: Striving to meet university student needs
- Western Washington University (WA)
The ongoing neoliberalization of higher education has meant that college and university students at state institutions face declining state support for their education, increasing debt, precarious post-graduation job opportunities, and …
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Assessing sustainability knowledge for undergraduate students in different academic programs and settings
- California Polytechnic State University (CA)
- University of Wisconsin-La Crosse (WI)
Purpose: As sustainability teaching and learning rises in importance, an increasing number of higher education institutions (HEIs) are assessing the effectiveness of their approach to sustainability education. However, most assessments …
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Bottled vs tap water perceptions, choices and recommendations in a US Midwest university community
- Southern Illinois University Edwardsville (IL)
- University of Southern Maine (ME)
Purpose:This study aims to determine preference and concerns regarding tap vs bottled water and recommendations to increase tap water use in a US Midwest university. The authors propose interventions to …
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Gamification to Improve Participation in an Environmental Science Course: An Educator’s Reflection
- The University of Arizona (AZ)
Reticence prevalent among East Asian students has prompted educators to attempt different methods to engage them. Gamification of courses has gained popularity as an avenue to encourage students’ participation, and …
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Reducing students’ ecological footprints through self-developed interventions
- Nelson Mandela University (Eastern Cape)
- University of Pretoria
An increasing emphasis on taking personal responsibility for making changes to address climate change and support sustainable development is hindered by the limited tools and guidance available that enable the …
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Valuation of student-led agricultural activities at university: comparison of willingness to pay with inferred values
- Ritsumeikan University
Agricultural fields in university campuses can improve urban nutrition security, increase greenery, and provide opportunities for students to grow crops and enhance self-management skills. We conducted student surveys among freshmen …
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Using normative case studies to examine ethical dilemmas for educators in an ecological crisis
- The University of Newcastle (NSW)
Environmental and sustainability initiatives seek to respond to the challenges of ecological crises and ongoing environmental degradation by supporting students to develop knowledge and dispositions to respond to the challenges …
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Analyzing Green Behavior and the Rational Use of Water in Portuguese Higher Education Campuses
- Universidade NOVA de Lisboa
- Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro
- Instituto Politécnico de Tomar
- Politécnico de Lisboa
- Instituto Politécnico de Beja
In the forthcoming years Portugal expects to be an increasingly hot and dry country dealing with the risk of water scarcity. According to the Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere …
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An overview of the engagement of higher education institutions in the implementation of the UN sustainable development goals
- University of São Paulo
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
Higher education institutions provide valuable inputs toward implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet, it is unclear how this engagement is taking place across the world. This study addresses …
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The importance of the Sustainable Development Goals to students of environmental and sustainability studies—a global survey in 41 countries
- Goethe University Frankfurt
To fight the global problems of humanity, the United Nations has adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). To achieve these goals, it is necessary that future decision-makers and stakeholders in …
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Which competencies should be fostered in education for sustainable development at higher education institutions? Findings from the evaluation of the study programs at the University of Bern, Switzerland
- University of Bern
A relatively broad consolidated consensus has emerged among experts regarding the competencies that should be fostered through an education for sustainable development at the higher education level. However, there is …
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Design principles for advancing higher education sustainability learning through transformative research
- Leuphana University of Lüneburg
- Technische Universität Berlin (Berlin)
A growing number of transformative research practices that redefine the role of science in engaging with local–mostly urban–transformation processes have emerged in recent decades. However, while education is considered a …
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Relationships Between Institutional Agents and Student Activists
- Colorado State University (CO)
- The Ohio State University (OH)
- University of Utah (UT)
- University of West Georgia (GA)
Researchers studying college student activism have learned much about those students’ motivations, tactics, and educational outcomes. Less is known about the relationships between activists and key institutional agents. For student …
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Some Reflections on the Role of the Eco-Schools Program in the Promotion of Sustainable HEIs: A Case Study in Portugal
- Instituto Politécnico de Coimbra (Coimbra)
Currently, the Eco-Schools program plays a key role in the application of the concepts of environmental education and management in the daily life of schools. This program is considered the …
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Nature as Mentor: Catalyzing First-Year Liberal Arts and Sciences Undergraduate Transition Through a Biomimicry First-Year Seminar
- College of Charleston (SC)
- University of Minnesota System Office (MN)
University students crave immersive, collaborative, interdisciplinary, applied learning contextualized to real world sustainability challenges. Liberal arts and sciences institutions are particularly well positioned to respond. Here we report on our …
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