EVERYBODY WINS! Statewide/Regional Sustainability Consortia and Partnerships
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This thread is for posts on how to start, develop, use and sustain effective state/regional higher ed sustainability partnerships-- and to work with AASHE.
This first post suggests topics for discussion--- from the abstract of a presentation at AASHE - Denver, 2010. Please feel free to jump in with any material on partnerships! AND WE INVITE YOU TO SHARE YOUR IDEAS AND CONCERNS IN OUR SESSION THERE:
Wheeler Donald, Jacobson, Bert, Champion, Ben
EVERYBODY WINS! Effective Statewide/Regional
Higher Ed Sustainability Partnerships Tuesday 9 :30 am 103
*Meeting of minds and hearts across institutional and disciplinary boundaries.*Hierarchy leveled in shared projects.*More clout with governors, legislatures, local officials.*New funding opportunities.*Partnering with business, government and non-profits.*More colleagues who share your expertise and passion.*Bolder and more powerful sustainability initiatives.*FUN! These are some of the benefits of statewide/regional consortiums. How do you build a new consortium? How can we get ours to work better?
Leaders of three very different consortia will put their models out for you to consider. Illinois Green Economy Network -IGEN with 48 community colleges, has federal stimulus funds to create job-centers statewide;
Kansas Higher Education Sustainability Network has statewide annual conferences to build relationships and spawn projects;
New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability-NJHEPS is building face-to-face communities of practice connected virtually to incubate new statewide initiatives.
We will examine goals, organizational types, working principles, boundary decisions, stakeholder relationships, best practices, outcomes and future prospects. Attention to synergies with AASHE strategic goals.
Name Email
Donald Wheeler drdwheeler@optonline.net NJHEPS.ORG
Ben Champion champion@ksu.edu Kansas Higher Education Sustainability Network
Bert Jacobson bjacobson@kcc.edu Illinois Green Economy Network -IGEN
ALSO SEE ON THIS AASHE WEBSITE:
AASHE Home > Resource Center > Campus Sustainability Organizations
Campus Sustainability Organizations
•National and International Organizations
•Regional and State Organizations!!!!!!
•Student-focused Organizations
WE INVITE YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN OUR SESSION IN DENVER ---- described in the first post in this thread:
Champion, Ben Jacobson, Bert Wheeler Donald
EVERYBODY WINS! Effective Statewide/Regional
Higher Ed Sustainability Partnerships Tuesday 9 :30 am 103
Share your experience! Raise your concerns!
If you log onto the IGEN website (www.igencc.org) it might stimulate some questions to bring with you to our session. This is a Dialogue and Discussion Session, so there will be time to get the answers you are seeking about Statewide and Regional partnerships.
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Colleagues:
This AASHE website has a critical resource on state/regional higher ed sustainability consortia. Check it out and update material there and add any new partnerships or consortia left out or in formation!
AASHE Home > Resource Center > Campus Sustainability Organizations
Campus Sustainability Organizations
•National and International Organizations
•Regional and State Organizations!!!!!!
•Student-focused Organizations
Yours for a healthy, sustainable and just future---- with partnerships playing an important role!
Don Wheeler
Senior Advisor, New Jersey Higher Education Partnership for Sustainability,
Professor Emeritus, Sociology and Global Studies, Kean University