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Format: III, 259 Bl.

Note: Kopie, erschienen im Verl. Univ. Microfilms Internat., Ann Arbor, Mich. , Madison, Univ. of Wisconsin, Diss., 1981

Language: English

Keywords: Hochschulschrift

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Format: 1 online resource (335 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-262-31669-2 , 0-262-31668-4

Series Statement: Urban and industrial environments

Content: 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.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , 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 , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-262-01949-3

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-262-51965-8

Language: English

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Format: 1 online resource (viii, 327 p. ) , ill. ;

ISBN: 0-262-26771-3 , 1-4175-6078-9

Series Statement: Urban and industrial environments

Content: Stories both practical and inspirational about environmental leadership on campus.These personal narratives of greening college campuses offer inspiration, motivation, and practical advice. Written by faculty, staff, administrators, and a student, from varying perspectives and reflecting divergent experiences, these stories also map the growing strength of a national movement toward environmental responsibility on campus.Environmental awareness on college and university campuses began with the celebratory consciousness-raising of Earth Day, 1970. Since then environmental action on campus has been both global (in research and policy formation) and local (in efforts to make specific environmental improvements on campuses). The stories in this book show that achieving environmental sustainability is not a matter of applying the formulas of risk management or engineering technology but part of what the editors call "the messy reality of participatory engagement in cultural transformation."In Sustainability on Campus campus leaders recount inspiring stories of strategies that moved eighteen colleges and universities toward a more sustainable future. This book is for faculty, students, administrators, staff, and community partners, whether hesitant or committed, knowledgeable or newcomer. Scholars and activists have recognized the crucial role that higher education can play in the sustainability effort, and each chapter in the book is full of ideas about how to get started, revitalize efforts, and overcome roadblocks. Human and at times joyful, these stories illustrate many forms of leadership, in new courses and faculty development, green buildings and administrative policies, student programs, residential life, and collaborations with local communities.

Note: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph , Laying the cornerstones -- , Process and practice: creating the sustainable university / , The green task force: facing the challenges to environmental stewardship at a small liberal arts college / , No longer waiting for someone else to do it: a tale of reluctant leadership / , Redesigning the curriculum / , Transdisciplinary shared learning / , Place as the nexus of a sustainable future : a course for all of us / , Building political acceptance for sustainability : degree requirements for all graduates / , Building buildings, building learning communities -- , Can educational institutions learn? The creation of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College / , The development of Stanford University's guidelines for sustainable buildings : a student perspective / , Engaging communities, engaging students -- , Maintaining a college-community ecotourism project: faculty initiative, institutional vision, student participation, and community partnerships / , Teaching for change : the leadership in environmental education partnership / , Restoring natural landscapes : from ideals to action / , Building system-wide commitment -- , South Carolina Sustainable Universities Initiative / , Challenges of greening a decentralized campus: making the connection to health / , Sustaining sustainability : lessons from Ramapo College / , Cultivating a shared environmental vision at Middlebury College / , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-262-02560-4

Language: English