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AASHE Bulletin: Campus Sustainability News, Opportunities, Events and Job Listings

"I get a fair amount of these sorts of emailed bulletins, and NONE are as informative, easy to read, well-designed, appropriately condensed, and carefully produced as AASHE's."
-- Jim Elder, Director, Campaign for Environmental Literacy

"THANK YOU for keeping on top of all the campus sustainability news from across the nation, as well as sharing it with all of us — the Bulletin is often a highlight of my week. We receive too little good news otherwise."
-- Brandon Armstrong, Tennessee Campus Organizer, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy

To help you keep up with the rapidly evolving world of campus sustainability, AASHE offers the AASHE Bulletin, a free weekly e-newsletter that delivers the latest campus sustainability news, resources, opportunities, events and job listings from the U.S. and Canada. Subscribers include campus administrators, faculty, staff, students and professionals interested in campus sustainability. 

Those subscribed to the Bulletin will automatically receive AASHE Bulletin: Global Edition, a twice-yearly e-newsletter that highlights sustainability stories from higher education institutions located outside of the U.S. and Canada.

Meet our New AASHE Bulletin Editorial Board!

AASHE is excited to announce the appointment of 17 members to its inaugural AASHE Bulletin Editorial Board. Representing a vast scope of higher education sustainability expertise and perspectives, this board will contribute to a new, original AASHE Bulletin column titled “Connecting the Dots.” This column will examine several stories in each Bulletin issue to help readers make sense of how they fit together for a holistic approach to higher education sustainability. Stay tuned for more information about "Connecting the Dots." See the full list of board members here.

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Sponsoring AASHE Bulletin

To help cover the costs of production, AASHE welcomes sponsorships of the AASHE Bulletin. Learn about sponsorship opportunities.

Submission Guidelines

AASHE Bulletin is a great vehicle for publicizing your campus sustainability news, opportunities, job postings and events. Before submitting items for consideration, please review the guidelines below and examine previous issues for examples of the type of stories we cover and the format we use.
 
To submit an item for consideration, email a hyperlink to the news story, press release, resource, opportunity announcement, job position description or event information that is posted online to bulletin@aashe.org.  Items submitted by 5 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday will be considered for the following Monday's issue. Please avoid sending attachments if possible.

The following guidelines are meant to provide a general idea of the types of items we usually publish. The guidelines are also intended to keep the length of the AASHE Bulletin manageable. 

General

  • We will only include items that take place in the U.S. and or Canada.  
  • To serve our readership best, we stay away from general sustainability items and focus on submissions that are directly relevant to the campus sustainability community.
  • Submissions are encouraged by members and non-members alike. 

News

  • We generally focus on news items that announce new efforts rather than coverage of ongoing initiatives. For instance, the receipt of LEED certification on a new building would fit, but a general article about a campus' green building efforts would not.
  • We strive to keep the Bulletin timely - items that are current are most likely to be included. We generally do not include items that took place more than two months before the submission date.
  • Awards: Only nationally or regionally (multi-state) focused awards will be included.
  • New buildings: We will include either the completion/dedication of a green building OR the receipt of LEED certification/other formal green building award (but not both).
  • We cannot include stories on the participation of an individual campus in national sustainability events that include multiple campuses (such as RecycleMania and Campus Sustainability Day). Instead, we generally post one story on the entire event. Click here for an example.
  • We generally post one story that includes all submissions of Climate Action Plans and Greenhouse Gas inventories by institutions in the recent past. In the interest of space, we typically do not cover these separately. Click here for an example.
  • AASHE is also excited and encouraged by the number of campus sustainability plans and reports that are emerging. In the interest of space, we have updated our Bulletin coverage in this regard. In most cases, we will post one story that feature those institutions that have implemented sustainability plans or published sustainability reports in the recent past. Significant revisions and updates to sustainability plans will also be reported in this fashion. Click here for an example.
  • STARS ratings are covered in summary stories surrounding the STARS submission deadlines. Click here for an example.

New Resources

  • The New Resources section includes resources recently published by AASHE along with other resources submitted by campuses and other organizations. Examples include campus sustainability reports; campus sustainability focused whitepapers; new magazines or journals; websites or newsletters focused on campus sustainability; and campus sustainability videos. New resources submitted to the Bulletin should be accessible to the higher education sustainability community at large. See the AASHE Bulletin archives or the AASHE Digest for more examples.

Opportunities

  • This section focuses on opportunities for the campus sustainability community. We invite submissions on a national, regional and local level.
  • Surveys directly related to research on campus sustainability - both announcements of such surveys as well as results available online - will be considered for publication. Please send information about the research and a link to the survey or results to bulletin@aashe.org to have it considered for publication.

Jobs & Internships

  • Submitting a job posting to the AASHE Bulletin is free of charge. We will include the posting in one issue, and the posting will remain in the archives thereafter. The process for submitting a position is the same as submitting all other types of items for the publication, and can be found in the highlighted guidelines above.
  • We can only publish positions that are directly focused on advancing sustainability in higher education.

Events

  • The Bulletin has a wide geographical readership; therefore submitted events must be of interest beyond the locality, state or province.
  • Events will only be posted one time, unless AASHE is involved in the event.
  • All events posted in the Bulletin will also be posted in the AASHE Calendar.

New Feature! Sustainability Student Diary

The AASHE Bulletin invites entries for its new feature, "Sustainability Student Diary." Students at colleges and universities worldwide are encouraged to submit diary entries that provide a day, week, month or multi-month snapshot of a student-led sustainability effort. Selected diaries will be linked to AASHE's Campus Sustainability Perspectives Blog to invite comment and encourage interactivity among peers, with a featured spotlight and picture in the AASHE Bulletin.

All higher education institutions, AASHE member or not, are eligible for inclusion in the rotation of spotlighted diaries. This is a great opportunity to spread the word about student-initiated sustainability efforts. Sample topics include:

  • The creation of a student sustainability fee
  • The creation of a campus farmers market
  • The push for alternative transportation options

To have your diary considered for spotlighting, please send the following materials to bulletin@aashe.org:

  • Written diaries of that explain the project's initial goal, how and why it was initiated, and the successes and lessons learned. Diaries can be one entry or multiple entries. There is no word limit but around 1500 words is a good guideline. Ongoing initiatives that haven't reached the completion stage are also encouraged. This is an opportunity to invite feedback from peers.
  • Several photos of your sustainability effort in progress. Please only send photos that you can grant AASHE permission to use, and keep in mind that photos will appear small (150 px width and roughly 225 px height) and so must reduce well. Sending multiple photos is the best way to ensure we have one that works and we will include a minimum of two photos with each diary.
  • Please include the diary text in the body of the email. Do not send attachments except for pictures.
  • A link for readers to visit to learn more about your institution's sustainability efforts.

We will publish excerpts from existing sustainability blogs or other mediums in place of an original diary if authored by the submitter with permission for AASHE to republish with credit given to the original publisher.

Sustainability Student Diary Archives:

Dickinson College (11/30/11)
Georgia Tech (07/29/11)
California State University, Long Beach (07/18/11)
State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY ESF) (06/28/11)
Unity College (06/03/11)
The University of Richmond (05/23/11)
Lehigh University (05/02/11)
Stanford University (03/14/11)
University of British Columbia (02/28/11)
University of California, Berkeley (01/18/11)
University of Chicago (12/13/10)
St. Lawrence University (11/22/10)
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (11/5/10)