We have been looking at institutions that include sustainability in the job description at www.aashe.org/dans and as part of our work at www.aashe.org/heasc . NCSE has a document on interdisciplinary hiring at http://www.ncseonline.org/CEDD/cms.cfm?id=2042 but it is for faculty. ASU and Cornell and others have been including sustainability in job descriptions. For the presidential level, I suggest taking verbiage from the leaders guidance document at www.presidentsclimatecommitment.org

I was asked this question at Georgia Southern earlier this year. My response focused on just on what is advertised (which is important and Debbie Rowe has pointed to some good sources for language) but also making sure that there are people at each forum that have clear questions regarding the candidate's commitment to sustainability so that there is a record prior to the hire. The other piece that is important is to do whatever you can to place a sustainability advocate on the search/screening committee or find one to work with on the board. It is also helpful to have someone advocate the sustainability language among those who will decide the wording of the advertisement. If there is any relevant language in the institution’s documents (strategic plan, mission, vision, commitments, etc.) then that should be referenced throughout the process.  I believe you have that in your strategic plan and it is an important question to everyone as to whether a new president will continue the strategic directions or plan on setting new ones.

Thanks for this helpful information and suggestion. 

The document that Deborah Rowe refers to--http://presidentsclimatecommitment.org/documents/Leading_Profound_Change_ExecSum_final7-28-09.pdf--seems to be only a summary.  Is the complete document available somewhere I havent found?