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The Sustainable University : Green Goals and New Challenges for Higher Education Leaders.
Title:
The Sustainable University : Green Goals and New Challenges for Higher Education Leaders.
Author:
Martin, James.
ISBN:
9781421406282
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (352 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- I: UPDATING THE NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON SUSTAINABILITY: Key Trends and Challenges -- 1 The Sustainable University: A Need to Move Forward -- 2 Promises Made and Promises Lost: A Candid Assessment of Higher Education Leadership and the Sustainability Agenda -- 3 Trends, Skills, and Strategies to Catalyze Sustainability across Institutions -- 4 Measuring Campus Sustainability Performance: Implementing the First Sustainability Tracking, Assessment, and Rating System (STARS) -- 5 Institutionalizing Sustainability: Achieving Transformations from the Inside -- 6 Sustainability: Shifting Definitions and Evolving Meanings -- 7 Sustainable Citizenship: The Challenge for Students and Their Institutions -- II: SUSTAINABILITY AND THE LEADERSHIP TEAM: New Assignments -- 8 Sustainability and the Presidency: Five Starting Points -- 9 Not So Fast: A Dose of Reality about Sustainability -- 10 The Importance of Sustainability in the Community College Setting -- 11 Sustainability, Leadership, and the Role of the Chief Academic Officer -- III: FRESH AGENDAS FOR CAMPUS OPERATIONS -- 12 Greening the Endowment -- 13 Sustainability and Higher Education Architecture: Best Practices for Institutional Leaders -- 14 Sustainable Campus Housing: Building a Better Place -- 15 Food for Thought: Building Sustainable Food Systems and Healthy Communities -- 16 University Athletics and Sustainability: Start on the Field -- IV: BEYOND THE GREEN GATES: Sustainability and the Institution's External Partners -- 17 The Impact of Sustainability on Institutional Quality Assurance and Accreditation -- 18 Green Legal: Creating a Culture of Vigilance, Compliance, and Sustainability Thinking -- V: THE COMPLEX PATH AHEAD -- 19 Conclusion: New Goals and New Challenges for Institutional Leaders -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- List of Contributors.

Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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