Sustainability in Higher Education - Peggy F. Barlett

Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs.In colleges and universities across the United States, students, faculty, and staff are forging new paths to sustainability. From private liberal arts colleges to major research institutions to community colleges, sustainability concerns are being integrated into curricula, policies, and programs. New divisions, degree programs, and courses of study cross traditional disciplinary boundaries; Sustainability Councils become part of campus governance; and new sustainability issues link to historic social and educational missions. In this book, leaders from twenty-four colleges and universities offer their stories of institutional and personal transformation. These stories document both the power of leadershipwhether by college presidents, faculty, staff, or student activistsand the potential for institutions to redefine themselves. Chapters recount, among other things, how inclusive campus governance helped mobilize students at the University of South Carolina; how a course at the Menominee Nation's tribal college linked sustainability and traditional knowledge; how the president of Furman University convinced a conservative campus community to make sustainability a strategic priority; how students at San Diego State University built sustainability into future governance while financing a LEED platinum-certified student center; and how sustainability transformed pedagogy in a lecture class at Penn State. As this book makes clear, there are many paths to sustainability in higher education. These stories offer a snapshot of what has been accomplished and a roadmap to what is possible.Colleges and Universities CoveredArizona State University
Central College, Iowa
College of the Menominee Nation, Wisconsin
Curriculum for the Bio-region Project, Pacific Northwest
Drury University, Missouri
Emory University, Georgia
Florida A&M University
Furman University, South Carolina
Green Mountain College, Vermont
Kap'olani Community College, Honolulu, Hawaii
Pennsylvania State University San Diego State University
Santa Clara University, California
Slippery Rock State University, Pennsylvania
Spelman College, Georgia
Unity College, Maine
University of Hawaii-Manoa
University of Michigan
University of South Carolina
University of South Florida
University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
Warren Wilson College, North Carolina
Yale University.