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Green for All? Gender Segregation and Green Fields of Study in American Higher Education

• Cornell University (NY)
• Harvard University (MA)

Using the example of green fields of study in higher education, which emerged largely in response to the growing prominence of the environmental movement over recent decades, this article posits ...

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Gendered citizenship and the individualization of environmental responsibility: evaluating a campus common reading program

• Washington State University, Pullman (WA)

Campus common reading programs are intended to stimulate critical thinking and dialogue across disciplines yet scarce evidence exists to evaluate the success of such programs. We assess the extent to ...

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Flame Retardant Chemicals in College Dormitories: Flammability Standards Influence Dust Concentrations

• Harvard University (MA)
• University of New Hampshire (NH)
• Silent Spring Institute (MA)
• University of Antwerp

Furniture flammability standards are typically met with chemical flame retardants (FRs). FRs can migrate out of products into dust and are linked to cancer, neurological impairment, and endocrine disruption. We ...

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Faculty Development for Advancing Community Engagement in Higher Education: Current Trends and Future Directions

• University of San Francisco (CA)

This research involved the conduct of a conceptual review of 28 refereed journal articles and a survey of campus centers for community engagement staff to identify salient features and trends ...

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Experiential Learning and Pathways to Carbon Neutrality

• University of Montana- Missoula (MT)

To date, more than 650 university presidents across the United States have become signatories of the American College and University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC). A central goal of being a ...

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Experiments and evidence in sustainability science: A typology

• Arizona State University (AZ)
• Leuphana University of Lüneburg

Experiments are crucial for sustainability science because they allow researchers to produce evidence about the causes of sustainability problems and about the effectiveness of solutions. Many laboratory and field studies ...

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Evaluation of an informational and behavior change program to increase students' self-reported energy conservation

• Hobart and William Smith Colleges (NY)
• State University of New York at Brockport (NY)

A systematic evaluation of a program, consisting of sustainability education, self-management strategies, and feedback, to decrease college students' energy use was conducted. During treatment, the experimental group showed increased self-reported ...

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Environmental sustainability practices in South Asian university campuses: an exploratory study on Bangladeshi universities

• University of Waterloo (ON)
• University of Chittagong

Environmental sustainability practices in universities can play an important role in helping society form a sustainable future. In this study, the roles that Bangladeshi universities play in terms of sustainability ...

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Environmental sustainability of universities: critical analysis of a green ranking

• University of Trento (Trentino)

Today, the principles of sustainability and sustainable development represent key points in policy development and activities of the Higher Education Institutions, both for their impact on the environment and the ...

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Climate Resilience Planning and Organizational Learning on Campuses and Beyond: A Comparative Study of Three Higher Education Institutions

• Boston University (MA)
• Cornell University (NY)
• Smith College (MA)

Higher education institutions around the world are confronting challenges associated with climate change, and many are trying to model practices that support climate change mitigation and resilience. This work initiates ...

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An aggregated and dynamic analysis of innovations in campus sustainability

• Smith College (MA)

Purpose: This paper aims to compose a systematic understanding of campus sustainability innovations and unpack the complex drivers behind the elaboration of specific innovations. More precisely, the authors ask two ...

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State Of Sustainability In Higher Education 2017: Trends In Climate Change Mitigation And Adaptation

• University of New Hampshire (NH)
• Sightlines (SC)

Over the past decade, higher education business, facilities, and sustainability officers have invested a great deal toward reducing campus resource use, waste, and negative ecological impact.

This year’s State ...

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Beacons, Not Towers: How Higher Education Can Help Achieve the Sustainable Development Goals

• United Nations University

Higher education is often idealized as a tool for implementing sustainable development. Yet the structures of higher education institutions (HEIs) often inhibit the types of problem solving and pedagogical design ...

• Posted Feb. 22, 2018
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Environmental justice frameworks in student affairs assessment practice

• University of Georgia (GA)

Assessment and evaluation of programs are core components of ethical professional practice for student affairs administrators in higher education. This paper reviews three environmental frameworks and applies the Just sustainability ...

• Posted Feb. 20, 2018
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Enhancing environmental management in universities through participation: the case of the University of Córdoba

• University of Córdoba

This article illustrates the methodology for a participatory process that encourages the campus community to help improve the environmental management of their institution, as an example of the effective integration ...

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Energy use characteristics and benchmarking for higher education buildings

• Griffith University (Queensland)

Higher education buildings serve complex functions by providing spaces for various activities and disciplines. This study aims to understand energy use characteristics of different types of buildings in higher education ...

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Education of Sustainable Development Competence in Higher Education Institution

• Vytautas Magnus University

The present paper aims at exploring the role of higher education institution (HEI) on education of sustainable development competence (SDC). Considering the connection of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), it ...

• Posted Feb. 20, 2018
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Education for Sustainable Development: Business modelling for flourishing

• OCAD University (ON)
• Halmstad University

As companies and other organizations increasingly recognize society’s demand for greater social and environmental sustainability, university and college business schools have responded with new pedagogic approaches. Business schools have ...

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Educating for post-disaster sustainability efforts

• Arizona State University (AZ)

Urgent sustainability problems call for accelerated and transformational change. Disasters can provide opportunities for accelerating such change towards sustainability by eliminating the impediments of “normal times,” but only if a ...

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Does Specific CSR Training for Managers Impact Shareholder Value? Implications for Education in Sustainable Development

• University of Zaragoza

This study aims to analyze whether specific corporate social responsibility +CSR) training in sustainable development can boost the potential impact of CSR on shareholder value (i.e., corporate reputation, brand ...

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Developing digital educational materials for nursing and sustainability: The results of an observational study

• University of Plymouth (Devon)
• Maastricht University
• Hochschule Esslingen University of Applied Sciences
• University of Jaén

There is limited European literature on nursing and sustainability; nursing students are poorly prepared on the connections between resources, climate change, sustainability, and health, so they must acquire knowledge and ...

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Designing a sustainability-driven entrepreneurship curriculum as a social learning process: A case study from an international knowledge alliance project

• University of Vechta
• University of Gothenburg
• Masaryk University
• Vienna University of Economics and Business

Integrating Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in higher education curricula requires innovative ideas and approaches how to combine educational, sustainability and disciplinary knowledge, skills, experiences, and motivations. Curriculum developers are ...

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Decision making under the environmental perspective: Choosing between traditional and distance teaching courses

• Universidade Paulista

Over the last 30 years, distance learning has rapidly spread in developed countries, and to niche markets in developing countries. In Brazil, approximately 5 million people are currently either achieving ...

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The Biochemistry Cell Culture Facility at CU Boulder: Avoided costs and other benefits resulting from shared equipment in collaborative research space

• University of Colorado Boulder (CO)

With scientists experiencing intense competition for federal biomedical research funding, efficiency and cost-saving measures are powerful tools to maximize the impact of those research dollars. The large environmental footprint of ...

• Posted Feb. 15, 2018
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Reporting for Sustainability: Guidance for Higher Education Institutions

• Forum for the Future

Universities and colleges are already under scrutiny from a wide range of stakeholders, from prospective students to staff and government agencies. They are also being pressed to report on how ...

• Posted Feb. 15, 2018
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Critical success factors for embedding carbon management in organizations: lessons from the UK higher education sector

• De Montfort University
• Nottingham Trent University

Organizations are under increasing pressure from governments and stakeholders to reduce carbon emissions from their business operations for climate change mitigation. Universities are not exempt from this challenge and are ...

• Posted Feb. 15, 2018
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Leveraging Sustainability Reporting in Higher Education Institutions— A Multidimensional Research Agenda

• University of Hildesheim

Sustainability has become increasingly important to research and practice. In order to determine impacts, identify improvement potential and to disclose efforts towards sustainability, an organization needs appropriate reporting. Thus, sustainability ...

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Conceptualization of sustainable higher education institutions, roles, barriers, and challenges for sustainability: An exploratory study in Portugal

• Universidade Aberta
• Polytechnic Institute of Santarém
• University of Aveiro

Higher Education Institutions play an important role in the promotion of sustainability and an increasing number of stakeholders expect them to be sustainable organizations. However, this can only be achieved ...

• Posted Feb. 12, 2018
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Comparative analyses of sustainable campuses as living laboratories for managing environmental quality

• Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

Despite an emerging trend in the higher education sector toward sustainable campuses, comparative analyses that span multiple themes across multiple campuses are still limited. The purpose of this paper is ...

• Posted Feb. 12, 2018
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Climate change and higher education: Assessing factors that affect curriculum requirements

• Vanderbilt University (TN)

Pervasive misinformation about climate change might be reduced if colleges were to include the topic within general education curriculum. This paper analyzes the general education (or “core”) curriculum in the ...

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Carbon lock-in: an obstacle in higher education’s decarbonization pathways

• University of Dayton (OH)

Carbon lock-in describes a force that perpetuates the fossil fuel energy system despite known risks and cost-effective alternatives, a consequence of which is the slow rate of diffusion of low-carbon ...

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Campus as a Living Laboratory for Sustainability: The Chemistry Connection

• University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)

In the undergraduate curriculum, chemistry and sustainability connect easily and well. Topics in chemistry provide instructors with opportunities to engage students in learning about sustainability; similarly, topics in sustainability provide ...

• Posted Feb. 12, 2018
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Campus Alternative Food Projects and Food Service Realities: Alternative Strategies

• Emory University (GA)

As United States colleges and universities have developed campus projects to contribute to alternative food networks, strategies have matured from event-based, on-ramp activities to purchasing commitments, statistical tracking, and new ...

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Barriers to innovation and sustainability at universities around the world

• Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS
• University of Michigan (MI)
• University of Nottingham
• Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
• James Cook University (Queensland)
• University of São Paulo
• University of Passo Fundo

This paper explores the link between innovation and sustainability in the context of higher education, with the purpose of investigating the fundamental barriers for innovation and sustainable development in universities ...

• Posted Feb. 12, 2018
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Avoid, Control, Succumb, or Balance: Engineering Students’ Approaches to a Wicked Sustainability Problem

• Chalmers University of Technology
• University of Gothenburg

Wicked sustainability problems (WSPs) are an important and particularly challenging type of problem. Science and engineering education can play an important role in preparing students to deal with such problems ...

• Posted Feb. 12, 2018
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Assessing sustainability reports of US universities

• University of Hamburg

The purpose of this study is to assess sustainability reports of US universities to provide findings on the relative importance of disclosure topics. The authors conducted content analysis by using ...

• Posted Feb. 8, 2018
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Assessing sustainability in higher education curricula: A critical reflection on validity issues

• University of Victoria (BC)
• KU Leuven
• Open University of the Netherlands

While curricular assessments can give insight as to the extent sustainability is integrated into higher education study programs, issues remain regarding how assessments are conducted. Previous research has identified and ...

• Posted Feb. 8, 2018
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Analysis of Green Campus Initiatives Led by Voluntary Participants of University Students

• Korean Association for Green Campus Initiative (Seoul)

Purpose: Since 2010, many universities in Korea have been implementing Green Leader Training Programs which are usually run by students themselves. In the last five years of 2015, the Green ...

• Posted Feb. 8, 2018
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Analysing the literature on university social responsibility: A review of selected higher education journals

• University of Cadiz

In the last 30 years, different economic, political and social changes have taken place in the university sector and this has led to an extensive reform to meet the new ...

• Posted Feb. 8, 2018
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An Investigation of University Students' Attitudes Toward Environmental Sustainability

The adoption of pro-environmental behavior is critical to reduce negative environmental impacts and move toward a more sustainable future. The role of higher education in training professionals to protect the ...

• Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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A proposal of a Balanced Scorecard for an environmental education program at universities

• Santa Catarina State University

By developing and implementing environmental concerns in its principles and infrastructure, universities are becoming increasingly active in promoting societal changes towards sustainable development. These environmental concerns are translated into comprehensive ...

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A Competency Model for Management Education for Sustainability

Management education needs transformation to avoid socio-economic volatility in this globalised world and to deal with the crises of responsibility and sustainability. Despite rising demand and increasing popularity, management education ...

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A Strategic Communication Model for Sustainable Initiatives in Higher Education Institutions

• MacEwan University (AB)

Communicating sustainable initiatives in higher education institutions presents a challenge, given that few to no universities possess or maintain a strategic communication plan that addresses the need to share this ...

• Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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(Re-)designing higher education curricula in times of systemic dysfunction: a responsible research and innovation perspective

• Wageningen University
• University College Cork - National University of Ireland, Cork (Co. Cork)
• Queen's University Belfast

There is an urgent need to address the grand sustainability challenges of our time, and to explore new and more responsible ways of operating, researching, and innovating that enable society ...

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University Sustainability: Assessing College Sustainability Rating Systems

• Yale University (CT)

This paper seeks to assess the three major university sustainability rating systems in the United States on their ability to drive positive sustainability outcomes. Since the mid-2000s the Association for ...

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Integrating Sustainability Philosophy into Business Curriculum

• St. Thomas University (FL)
• Westcliff University (CA)

This paper examines the status of sustainability integration in business schools and colleges as part of business education and training - curriculum. The authors argue that there is a need for ...

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‘The learning sticks’: reflections on a case study of role-playing for sustainability

• RMIT University

Use of role-plays to develop deep student-learning has many advocates. Role-play is a powerful approach for learning that develops relevant skills in a range of disciplines and situations. In Higher ...

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2016 National Solar Jobs Census

The Solar Foundation’s National Solar Jobs Census 2016 is the seventh annual update on employment, trends, and projected growth in the U.S. solar industry. The Solar Jobs Census ...

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North American College/University Market Carsharing Impacts: Results from Zipcar’s College Travel Study 2015

• University of California, Berkeley (CA)
• Zipcar (MA)

In partnership with Zipcar, researchers at UC Berkeley's Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), conducted a survey of collegiate Zipcar members to better understand the impact that carsharing has on ...

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Sustainable Campus Transportation Toolkit: A Toolkit for Best Practices in Sustainable Transportation on Vermont College and University Campuses

• University of Vermont (VT)

This toolkit provides Vermont colleges, universities, and institutions with a set of strategies, case studies, and supporting information that may be utilized to improve the sustainability of campus transportation systems ...

• Posted Feb. 5, 2018
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