Sustainability in Higher Education

edited by Peggy F. Barlett and Geoffrey W. Chase

Campus leaders describe how community colleges, publicly funded universities, and private liberal arts colleges across America are integrating sustainability into curriculum, policies, and programs.

Stories from a growing revolution that is transforming campus operations and curriculum in higher education, told by intrepid and creative educators at the forefront. A must-read for administrators, faculty, students, and everyone interested in education. -- David W. Orr, Oberlin College From among the diverse and flourishing efforts all across the US to embody sustainability in higher education, Barlett and Chase have again demonstrated that they have an uncanny ability to identify, coax, and pluck the sweetest and juiciest examples. Whether reflecting back on personal growth as an instructor or recounting the ways students were able to make community-wide shifts in just a couple of years that had eluded other leaders for decades, the book's enthralling series of first-person narratives document the next phase of transformation, from pedagogical, to technical, to cultural. -- L. Julian Keniry, co-founder of National Wildlife Federation's Campus Ecology Program; author of Ecodemia and other publications Every 100 years or so, American colleges and universities begin a morphing process. These institutions have morphed from colonial colleges to universities, from local teaching academies to universities, or from colleges without degree programs to organized centers for advanced learning with many subjects being taught. Here in the twenty-first century, a new transformation has begun. Colleges and universities of all types, sizes, and histories are advancing a new integrated learning focus on sustainability. This new focus, built around a value outcome rather than a science outcome only, is well outlined in this reader and is critical for all designers of our teaching, learning, and discovery enterprises to consider as they prepare the next generations for the complexities that we will all face as we attempt to build a more sustainable future. -- Michael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University