AASHE Vision, Mission, and Goals
Our Vision
AASHE envisions a prosperous, equitable, and ecologically healthy world. In such a world, higher education plays a vital role in ensuring that people have an understanding of the interdependencies between environmental, social, and economic forces and the skills and abilities to meet sustainability challenges.
Our Mission
AASHE’s mission is to empower higher education to lead the sustainability transformation. We do this by providing resources, professional development, and a network of support to enable institutions of higher education to model and advance sustainability in everything they do, from governance and operations to education and research.
Our Goals
To realize its vision, AASHE has adopted five ambitious goals to be achieved by the end of 2011:
- AASHE will effectively serve a membership of at least 2,000 colleges and universities, NGOs, government partners, and businesses.
- AASHE will support an electronic resource center through which members can identify experts and best practices, access document libraries and resource databases, update or add content, and quickly find answers to their questions.
- At least half of all college and university students in the United States will be attending an institution that is a signatory to the American College & University Presidents Climate Commitment and 90% of signatory institutions will be in good standing.
- At least 10% of the courses offered at American colleges and universities will enable students to synthesize an understanding of environmental, economic, and social forces of change and apply that understanding to real world problems.
- The Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) will be the preeminent campus sustainability rating tool and will be used by at least 500 diverse colleges and universities.
