Diversity & Affordability
Introduction
Higher education opens doors to opportunities that can help create a more equitable world, and those doors must be open through affordable programs accessible to all regardless of race, gender, religion, socio-economic status and other differences. In addition, a diverse student body, faculty, and staff provide rich resources for learning and collaboration.
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Sustainability Studies
- Keene State College (NH)
Students in this major will explore innovative solutions to the local and worldwide degradation of nature and associated social injustices, and discover technological, social, and ethics-based approaches that can enable ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Inequality Studies Minor
- Cornell University (NY)
The Minor in Inequality Studies exposes students to inequality through a breadth of approaches, methods, and topics while allowing them to tailor the program to their particular interests
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Developmental Sociology PhD
- Cornell University (NY)
The Ph.D. program emphasizes community, regional, and state organizations, as well as the world system and development processes in these contexts. The program offers preparation for research, for the ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Environmental Justice and Sustainability Minor
- City University of New York, John Jay College of Criminal Justice (NY)
The Environmental Justice minor educates students about the need to provide for human well-being while conserving the natural resources and ecological balance necessary to meet the needs of current and ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Global Poverty and Practice Minor
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
The GPP Minor is one of the largest minors on the UC Berkeley campus. It trains students to critically and historically engage with complex issues of poverty and inequality, equipping ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Masters in Development Practice
- Emory University (GA)
The Master's in Development Practice (MDP) program at Emory University is designed to meet the challenge of achieving sustainable development in the face of global poverty, political and ethnic ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Graduate Certificate in Human Rights
- Emory University (GA)
Human rights are inherently interdisciplinary. The Emory Graduate Certificate in Human Rights is an integrated, innovative, and cooperative approach to human rights scholarship and training. The certificate combines the teaching ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Justice & Peace Studies Major
- University of St. Thomas (MN)
Justice and peace studies is an interdisciplinary department designed to prepare students to be responsible critics of contemporary societies and effective agents for positive social transformation.
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Minor in Social Justice/Social Practice
- Pratt Institute (NY)
The Social Justice/Social Practice Minor gives Pratt students the opportunity to bring their studio and design practice into dialogue with critical and transformative perspectives related to equity and justice ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Equity and Social Justice Emphasis
- Seattle Central College (WA)
The Equity and Social Justice Emphasis (ESJ) offers students a unique opportunity to study the social, economic, cultural, and political forces that have shaped historic and contemporary experiences of our ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Urban Studies Minor
- University of Denver (CO)
The Urban Studies minor at DU offers a multidisciplinary introduction to a range of issues that are affecting cities today. Our courses examine the history and nature of urban life ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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AA Aboriginal Studies
- Langara College (BC)
The Aboriginal Studies Program is a unique, comprehensive, and integrated university-transferable program that addresses historic and contemporary Aboriginal issues in Canada. The faculty come from a wide variety of backgrounds ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Sustainable Futures Emphasis
- Boise State University (ID)
The Global Studies major aims to prepare students as ethical, civically engaged citizens and members of a global community and workforce that increasingly demands an understanding of the complex, diverse ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Specialisation: Human Rights
- University of Sydney (NSW)
The human rights specialisation provides students with an understanding of how human rights apply in various political, social, economic and environmental contexts. The specialisation allows them to develop critical skills ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Minor in Urban and Regional Planning
- University of California, Irvine (CA)
The Urban and Regional Planning minor focuses on urban planning issues and offers opportunities to students to learn about the planning and development problems in our cities that we already ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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BA International Relations - Environment & Development Track
- Boston University (MA)
The Environment and Development Track within the International Relations program offers a wide variety of courses covering a broad range of related topics. These courses inform students about key debates ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Micah Certificate in Justice and Development
- The King's University (AB)
Certificate requirements: -9 credits of business, economics, English, environmental studies, history, politics, sociology, social sciences, and theology courses that focus on globalization, development, and poverty -at least 3 credits of ...
- Posted June 10, 2022
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Root: Centering Social Identity and Environmental Justice in First-Year Orientation
- Williams College (MA)
Root is one of 6 topical opt-in first-year orientation programs, called EphVentures, offered by Williams College. It runs for four days at the beginning of new student orientation and introduces ...
- Posted May 23, 2022
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UC Merced Through a Socio-Environmental Imagination Lens
- University of California, Merced (CA)
The socio-environmental imagination will be applied to the University of California, Merced, in hopes to understand the connection between society and UC Merced. UC Merced is located in Merced, California ...
- Posted May 20, 2022
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Hornet Reuse App
- California State University, Sacramento (CA)
As a way of reducing waste, creating a circular economy and creating a sense of community between students, faculty and staff at Sacramento State, Hornet Reuse was born. Hornet Reuse ...
- Posted May 13, 2022
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Diversity without Race: How University Internationalization Strategies Discuss International Students
- University of Toronto (ON)
This article examines how a sample of 62 higher education institutions in Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom discuss international students in their official institutionalization strategies, focusing on ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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On and beyond traumatic fallout: unsettling political ecology in practice and scholarship
- Clark University (MA)
- University of Colorado Colorado Springs (CO)
- University of Tennessee System Office (TN)
- University of Texas at Austin (TX)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
Franz Fanon poignantly argued that trauma is both an act and a memory of wounding that haunts subjects of violence. Addressing geographies of trauma, and the way that trauma is ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Building University Capabilities to Respond to Climate Change Through Participatory Action Research: Towards a Comparative Analytical Framework
- University of The South Pacific (Central Division)
- University College London (London)
- University of Passo Fundo
- Kenyatta University
- International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED) (England)
This paper aims to explore how the principles of participatory action research (PAR) articulate with questions of climate justice. Drawing on three qualitative case studies in Brazil, Fiji and Kenya ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Ten calls to action to integrate Indigenous Knowledges and perspectives into the Biosystems Engineering Program at the University of Manitoba
- University of Manitoba (MB)
In this study, a rapid grey and academic literature scoping review was conducted to investigate how Indigenous Knowledges, perspectives, values and cultures are being incorporated into engineering education in several ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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The Role of Universities in Sustainable Development and Circular Economy Strategies
- AGH University of Science and Technology
In this article, the conditions and determinants of the introduction and development of the circular economy (CE) in Poland were presented against the background of the widely discussed essence of ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Decolonization and Transformation of Higher Education for Sustainability
- University of Maryland, College Park (MD)
This article argues that institutions of higher education (IHEs) require a fundamental paradigm shift toward an Indigenous Knowledge (IK) model inclusive of Indigenous Peoples, perspectives, and values. This model acknowledges ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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The influence of sustainable branding and opinion leaders on international students’ intention to study: a case of Universiti Sains Malaysia
- Universiti Sains Malaysia
This paper aims to investigate the relationship between a sustainable university brand and the intention of international students to study at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), one of Malaysia’s premier ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Institutionalizing the intangible through research and engagement: Indigenous knowledge and higher education for sustainable development in Zambia
- Rowan University (NJ)
- Nottingham Trent University
- University of Zambia
Universities have an integral role in the development of communities. This is underpinned by the notion that universities possess a social responsibility to be agents of change in relation to ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Black and Indigenous Theoretical Considerations for Higher Education Sustainability
- Arizona State University (AZ)
In this conceptual paper, the authors make the case for why and how researchers can incorporate Black and Indigenous standpoints in higher education scholarship. We begin by drawing parallels between ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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(Un)Subjugating Indigenous Knowledge for Sustainable Development
- Rowan University (NJ)
- Nottingham Trent University
The relationship between development and higher education has evolved to become co-generative. The most recent incarnation of development goals, the sustainable development goals (SDG) call for a more intentional integration ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Sustainable management education: insights from indigenous wisdom of Bhartiya (Indian) Gurukul philosophy
- OP Jindal Global University (Haryana)
The purpose of the paper is to highlight the phenomenon of sustainable management education and its facilitating factors by exploring the indigenous wisdom of Bhartiya (Indian) Gurukul philosophy. The paper ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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The socially responsible European university: a challenging project
- University College London (London)
- Universidad de Tarapacá
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Purpose: This paper aims to propose a thesis about the historical evolution of the relationship of the European University in relation to the idea of social responsibility.
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- Posted May 11, 2022
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A Holistic Approach to Education for Sustainability: Ecofeminism as a Tool to Enhance Sustainability Attitudes in Pre-service Teachers
- Universitat de València
To achieve an effective Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), teachers should possess appropriate sustainability attitudes to transmit those values to their future students.In this article, a holistic educational intervention ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Case study evaluation: PIEER internship program and its impact on interns’ self-reported attitudes and behaviors regarding environmental health equity
- University of Northern Iowa (IA)
Environmental health disparities case studies are explored through a combination of lens including the naturome/nurturome, exposome [nature vs nurture] and multiple exposure-zone [place as predictor of health and wellbeing ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Internationalization, Whiteness, and Biopolitics of Higher Education
- The Ohio State University (OH)
From a postcolonial perspective, U.S. higher education is entangled with the colonial past and the neoliberal neo-colonial present as an economic actor that dominates global educational markets through internationalization ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Enabling Sustainable Development by Embedding Tongan Knowledge into University Science Curricula
- University of Auckland
Sustainable development requires the valuing of Indigenous knowledges. The complex and intertwined processes of coloniality and globalisation have contributed to spreading a dominant set of Western knowledge, values, and practices ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Beyond Western and Indigenous Perspectives on Sustainability: Politicizing Sustainability With the Zapatista Rebellious Education
- University of Stavanger
This article discusses the contributions of different worldviews to the debates on what a transformative sustainability education could be. It focuses on mainstream and alternative strands of thought present in ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Turtle Island (North America) Indigenous Higher Education Institutions and Environmental Sustainability Education
- University of Waterloo (ON)
This article explores the environmental and sustainability programs of Indigenous Higher Education Institutions (IHEIs) in North America. There are 38 Tribal Colleges and Universities in the United States and 26 ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Sustainability from a Social Justice Lens
- Mount Holyoke College (MA)
- University of Houston (TX)
- University of Minnesota, Morris (MN)
- AASHE (MA)
- Association of College Unions International
Join our presenters as they look at sustainability, social justice, and the connection between the two. We start by looking at the topic from a theory point of view. Then ...
- Posted May 11, 2022
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Thinking Ahead: A Tale of Joining Environmental and Social Justice Forces for a Stronger Future
- AASHE (MA)
- WorldStrides (VA)
Many organizations have been trialing ways to incorporate sustainability initiatives into their processes as environmental concerns have been elevated by the global community over the years, but there is a ...
- Posted May 5, 2022
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Plant Sale and Compost Giveback
- City University of New York, College of Staten Island (NY)
On April 11th, as part of our Earth Month activities at the College of Staten Island (CSI). This was CSI Sustainability's second plant sale of the season and gave ...
- Posted May 2, 2022
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Who Pays? How Industry Insiders Rig the Student Loan System—and How to Stop It
- Roosevelt Institute (NY)
In Who Pays? How Industry Insiders Rig the Student Loan System—And How to Stop It, Julie Margetta Morgan explains how powerful industry players have succeeded in taking what they ...
- Posted April 28, 2022
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The Role of Universities Towards a Sustainable Future: Integrating the Sustainable Development Goals
- York University
We live in an era of unprecedented planetary and social challenges, including: the climate crisis, globalization of economic markets, social injustice, inequalities, poverty, food insecurity, biodiversity loss, migration, technological automation ...
- Posted March 10, 2022
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How the Design of National-Scale Environmental Education Programs Support Equity and Inclusion
- University of Texas at Arlington (TX)
- University of Michigan (MI)
- National Wildlife Federation (VA)
In this session, two National Wildlife Federation EcoLeader Graduate Student Fellows will present the findings and recommendations of their recent research exploring how the design of the NWF EcoLeaders Program ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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An ‘EDJI’ Conversation: Believing in Equity, Diversity, Justice and Inclusion at Catawba College
- Catawba College (NC)
Join co-chairs, Dr. ChaMarra Saner and Dr. Mercedes Quesada-Embid, in conversation for a podcast-style session centered on successful strategies, unanticipated accomplishments, systemic challenges, surprising opportunities, and mobilizing moments related to ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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University of Wisconsin-Madison Badger Tour
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (WI)
The UW-Madison Sustainability Interns take a tour of the campus, highlighting its sustainability features, the 10,000 years of indigenous history, and the iconic places and spaces that make the ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Keynote Presentation with Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- California State University, San Marcos (CA)
- University of Hawaii System Office (HI)
Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Integrating Equity and Basic Needs Programs into Higher Education Sustainability Initiatives
- University of California, Santa Cruz (CA)
Amidst a global pandemic the expectations and experiences for students within their higher education institutions are indicating increased challenges to well-being and student success. International to first generation and non-traditional ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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BIPOCs in Sustainability Networking
- AASHE (MA)
This networking and discussion session will ideate around best practices and strategies sustainability professionals can use to center BIPOC voices. We aim to provide a safe space while giving voice ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Fun with Food Systems: Creative Ways to Increase Food Sovereignty and Build Community Remotely
- Portland Community College (OR)
Food shortages skyrocketed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and community college students were notably affected. Normal campus supports such as in-person food pantries, learning gardens, and our campus ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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This tab provides access to data collected through AASHE’s Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS). STARS is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance. STARS enables meaningful comparisons over time and across institutions using a common set of measurements developed with broad participation from the campus sustainability community.
All responses reference content from reports under the latest version of STARS, version 2.2. AASHE membership and log-in is required.
PA 5: Diversity & Equity Coordination
- Description of the institution’s cultural competence, anti-oppression, anti-racism, and/or social inclusion trainings and activities
- Description of the diversity and equity committee, office and/or officer
- Website URL - Diversity & equity coordination
PA 6: Assessing Diversity & Equity
- Description of the diversity and equity assessment process
- Description of recent diversity and equity assessment findings
- Diversity and equity assessment report or summary (upload)
- Website URL - diversity and equity assessment report or summary
- Website URL - Diversity & equity assessment
PA 7: Support for Underrepresented Groups
- Non-discrimination statement
- Discrimination response policy or protocol
- Programs to recruit students, academic staff, and/or non-academic staff from underrepresented groups
- Programs to support students, academic staff, and/or non-academic staff from underrepresented groups
- Programs to prepare students from underrepresented groups for careers as faculty members
- Website URL - Support for underrepresented groups
PA 8: Affordability & Access
- Percent of need met, on average, for students who were awarded need-based aid
- Percent of students graduating without student loan debt
- Percent of entering students that are low-income
- Graduation/success-rate for low-income students
- Website URL - Affordability and access programs
Additional analysis on scores and quantitative fields can be conducted using the STARS Benchmarking Tool.