About HEASC
The Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) is an informal network of higher education associations (HEAs) with a commitment to advancing sustainability in both their constituencies and in the system of higher education itself. We seek to help higher education exert strong leadership in making education, research, and practice for a sustainable society a reality. Higher education's leadership is critical to help businesses become sustainable; to have strong thriving and secure communities; and to provide economic opportunities for the broadest number of people while preserving the life support system on which all current and future generations depend.
HEASC will support its members' work in advancing sustainability by:
- Promoting and enhancing each others' sustainability efforts;
- Providing a forum for sharing and exchanging information, knowledge, and experiences;
- Building the capacity of HEA's to make sustainability a goal of their programming and practices;
- Enhancing professional development, including training in sustainability for HEA staff and their constituents;
- Integrating sustainability into associations' professional development programs;
- Connecting HEAs to the best expertise, resources and information in sustainability for higher education;
- Producing a quarterly newsletter on trends in sustainability in higher education, including HEA efforts; and
- Engaging in joint projects, and in projects with other associations and organizations that advance sustainability.
HEASC Statement of Shared Principles & Activities
HEASC Members drafted the following resolution which states HEASC's shared principles and activities. All members have signed the document and new members will be asked to sign it as well. View the document at: HEASC Shared Principles (PDF)
Members
- American Association of Community Colleges (AACC)
- American Council on Education (ACE)
- ACPA-College Student Educators International (ACPA)
- American Association of State Colleges & Universities (AASCU)
- Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA)
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
- Association of College & University Housing Officers International (ACUHO-I)
- Association of Governing Boards of Universities & Colleges (AGB)
- Council for Christian Colleges & Universities (CCCU)
- National Association for Campus Activities (NACA)
- National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO)
- National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP)
- National Association of Independent Colleges & Universities (NAICU)
- National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association (NIRSA)
- Society for College & University Planning (SCUP)
Steering Committee
- Matt Hamill, NACUBO
- John Hammang, AASCU
- Jolene Knapp, SCUP
- Lander Medlin, APPA
- Doreen Murner, NAEP
- Greg Roberts, ACPA
- Judy Walton, AASHE
Coordinating Agency/Staff
The coordinating function will be handled by Second Nature (SN). SN was founded in 1993 to work with college and university campuses across the country as they make sustainability an integral goal of learning and practice. SN works with administrators, faculty, staff and students at colleges and universities and with higher education organizations across the country to make the principles of sustainability the foundation of all learning, practice and collaboration with local communities. Second Nature (SN) has led the way in helping over 500 colleges and universities throughout the country begin to move towards sustainability and has been an important player in supporting the development or expansion of state and regional academic consortia focused on making sustainability a foundation of learning and practice. It played a key role in creating the new North American Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE).
The primary contacts are SN President Anthony Cortese, U.S. Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Higher Education co-chair, Debra Rowe and SN Program Manager Stephen Muzzy.