Sustainability in higher education : stories and strategies for transformation / edited by Peggy F. Barlett and Geoffrey W. Chase.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Barlett, Peggy F., 1947-

Chase, Geoffrey W.

Series:

Urban and Industrial Environments

Urban and industrial environments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Campus planning--Environmental aspects--United States.

Campus planning.

Universities and colleges--Environmental aspects--United States.

Universities and colleges.

Environmental management--United States.

Environmental management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 leadership--whether by college presidents, faculty, staff, or student activists--and 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 covered include Arizona 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.--Publisher description.

Contents:

Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction; I Leadership and Commitment; 1 Drury University; 2 Building a Decentralized, Grassroots, Campus Sustainability Organization and Community; 3 Science and Technology Leaders for a Sustainable Future; 4 Bowling Gutter Balls; II Curricular Transformation; 5 Curriculum for the Bioregion; 6 From Environmental Advocates to Sustainability Entrepreneurs; 7 From Soybeans and Silos to the Prairie Project; 8 Take-Home Messages that Transform Individuals and Institutions; 9 Learning Sustainability in a Tribal College Context

III Defining the Paradigm for Change10 Driving Transformative Change by Empowering Student Sustainability Leaders at the University of Michigan; 11 Metabolism and Resiliency; 12 Reimagining Professional Development; IV Institutional Mission and the Culture of Sustainability; 13 The Journey to Green; 14 Weaving a Culture of Sustainability; 15 Sustainability as Leadership Ethos; 16 Sustainability as Turnaround; 17 Transformational Leadership at Furman University; V Accountability; 18 Sustainability Strategic Planning; 19 Transforming the Silos

20 Fair Trade, Social Justice, and Campus Sustainability at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh21 Creating and Sustaining a Student Movement at San Diego State University; VI Professional and Personal Transformation; 22 Living the Questions; 23 Cultivating Pedagogies of Resilience; 24 Awakening to the Hero's Journey in Teaching and Learning; About the Contributors; Index; Urban and Industrial Environments Series

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed August 20, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

9780262316699

0262316692

9780262316682

0262316684

OCLC:

857504032