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March 29, 2017
Sustainability in Higher Education: Stories and Strategies for Transformation
- Author
- Bartlett, Peggy F.; and Chase, Geoffrey W., eds.
- Publisher
- MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
- ISBN
- 9780262519656
- Table of Contents
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Series Page
Dedication
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I – Leadership and Commitment
ch. 1 Drury University: A Story of Personal and Institutional Transformation (Wendy B. Anderson)
ch. 2 Building a Decentralized, Grassroots, Campus Sustainability Organization and Community: The Transformational Impact of Green Values (David Whiteman)
ch. 3 Science and Technology Leaders for a Sustainable Future (Richard D. Schulterbrandt Gragg, III, LaRae Donnellan, Ryan Mitchell, Clayton J. Clark, II, and Viniece Jennings)
ch. 4 Bowling Gutter Balls: My First Year as the Energy Conservation Committee Chair (Julie Snow)
Part II – Curricular Transformation
ch. 5 Curriculum for the Bioregion: Putting Communities and Ideas in Place (Jean MacGregor)
ch. 6 From Environmental Advocates to Sustainability Entrepreneurs: Rethinking a Sustainability-Focused General Education Program (William Throopo)
ch. 7 From Soybeans and Silos to the Prairie Project: The Journey to Restorative Global Sustainability Education at Central College (Jim Zaffiro)
ch. 8 Take-Home Messages that Transform Individuals and Institutions: The Student Leaders on Global Environmental Issues Program (John Cusick)
ch. 9 Learning Sustainability in a Tribal College Context (William Van Lopik)
Part III – Defining the Paradigm for Change
ch. 10 Driving Transformative Change by Empowering Student Sustainability Leaders at the University of Michigan (Mike Shriberg, Andrew J. Horning, Katherine Lund, John Callewaert, and Donald Scavia)
ch. 11 Metabolism and Resiliency: Key Concepts for Catalyzing Transformational Change (E. Chrstian Wells)
ch. 12 Reimagining Professional Development: Collaborative Circles for Creative Change (Krista Hiser)
Part IV – Institutional Mission and the Culture of Sustainability
ch. 13 The Journey to Green: Becoming Sustainable Spelman (Beverly Daniel Tatum)
ch. 14 Weaving a Culture of Sustainability: Santa Clara University’s Evolving Story (Sherry Booth, Lindsey Cromwell Kalbrenner, Leslie Gray, and Amy Shachter)
ch. 15 Sustainability as Leadership Ethos (Margo Flood)
ch. 16 Sustainability as Turnaround: The Case of Unity College (Mitchell Thomashow)
ch. 17 Transformational Leadership at Furman University: Tradeoffs and Transitions (Angela C. Halfacre)
Part V – Accountability
ch. 18 Sustainability Strategic Planning: Establishing Accountability in a World of Distractions (Julie Newman)
ch. 19 Transforming the Silos: Arizona State University’s School of Sustainability (Charles L. Redman)
ch. 20 Fair Trade, Social Justice, and Campus Sustainability at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh (James W. Feldman, and David Barnhill)
ch. 21 Creating and Sustaining a Student Movement at San Diego State University (Grant A. Mack)
Part VI – Professional and Personal Transformation
ch. 22 Living the Questions: Contemplative and Reflective Practices in Sustainability Education (Marie Eaton, Kate Davies, Michael Gillespie, Karen Harding, and Sharon Daloz Parks)
ch. 23 Cultivating Pedagogies of Resilience: Practicing Place, Expanding Perspectives, Sustaining Life (Bobbie Patterson)
ch. 24 Awakening to the Hero’s Journey in Teaching and Learning (Christopher Uhl, and Greg Lankenau)
About the Contributors
Index
Series List
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Abstract: 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. (From the Publisher)
Abstract: 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. (From the Publisher)