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082	0	0	_a378.1070973 _bSUS-
245	0	0	_aSustainability in higher education : _bstories and strategies for transformation / _cedited by Peggy F. Barlett and Geoffrey W. Chase.
260			_aLondon : _bMIT Press, _c2013.
300			_axiii, 316p. _billustrations ;
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aCampus 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 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.
546			_aEnglish.
650		0	_aCampus planning _xEnvironmental aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aUniversities and colleges _xEnvironmental aspects _zUnited States.
650		0	_aEnvironmental management _zUnited States.
700	1		_aBarlett, Peggy F. _eeditor.
700	1		_aChase, Geoffrey W. _eeditor.
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