Cross Discipline Student Group for Sustainability?
Is there a nationally recognized cross discipline group that we could charter on our campus for students to join, that deals with all areas of sustainability (not just the sciences)?
We'd like to get students involved in projects relation to all ideas and tenets of sustainability, not just specifically the environment, and want to encourage students to join from all disciplines and majors.
If you have a group like this on your campus, or know of one, please post here or email me: Smith_Getterman@baylor.edu
Thanks!
Smith Getterman
Sustainability Coordinator
Baylor University
I like the idea of being able to have our student groups network with other student groups at colleges and universities across the nation. I am sure that many colleges and universities already have Student Groups or Clubs dedicated to sustainability or environmental issues, so maybe there could be a way to incorporate AASHE into this groups, instead of creating seperate AASHE Student groups. I am the advisor for our student club on campus, and I would love to give my students the opportunity to network with other AASHE schools and to bring back ideas that can make our campus more sustainable.
I'm from Australia and not from a member institution but I think it's a great idea!
Get students together talking about sustainability, understanding how it relates to their degrees and the degrees of their peers and begin to comprehend how they can participate in making the work a more sustainable place.
I'd join.
Alex
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Smith has touched on an issue we have been discussing within AASHE. Should we create some kind of "AASHE Student Chapters" for the students in our member institutions? Would there be an advantage to the student chapters to create sub-networks within AASHE? Could there be a relationship build between student chapters and the Student Summit that is held at the AASHE conference and co-sponsored by NWF? It would be good for us to get an indication of the level of interest (how many campuses might want to have a student chapter); what the activities of student chapters might be; and how AASHE could facilitate the networking among the chapters.