In an effort to increase the accessibility and diversity of sustainability-oriented training for faculty, AASHE designates institutions as Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum. These Centers, which are selected based on their experience organizing sustainability-oriented professional development for their own faculty, agree to organize at least one workshop or other professional development offering annually that is open to faculty from other institutions. Each Center decides for itself on the specifics of these offerings (e.g., format, topical focus, timing, registration rates) resulting in programs that can support faculty with a wide variety of needs and interests. View upcoming Center-organized events.
With support from Microsoft, AASHE is working to expand the Centers program globally by recruiting new institutions to become Centers and organizing a support group to train faculty leaders from other institutions to establish sustainability across the curriculum programs. After running their own programs for several years, we hope that these institutions will be in a position to become new Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum.
AASHE is seeking new institutions to join the Centers program! Learn more about this opportunity and submit an application!
Please email Daita Serghi if you have any questions about the Centers program.
Current Centers
- Atlantic Technological University (contact: Mark Kelly, Head of ATU Centre for Sustainability)
- Cal Poly Humboldt (contact: Morgan Baker, Sustainability Librarian)
- Center for Sustainability Studies at Eastern Connecticut State University, (contact: Patty Szczys, Professor and Director)
- Dickinson College (contact: Lindsey Lyons, Assistant Director, Center for Sustainability Education)
- Driftless Region Sustainability in Education Project (contact: Casey Meehan, Director of Sustainability and Resilience)
- Entrepreneurship Development and Skills Acquisition Centre, Ekiti State Polytechnic (contact: Femi Gabriel Oyeniyi, Lecturer, Agricultural Technology)
- Franklin University Switzerland (contact: Jean Wu, Director, Green Office Sustainability Programs)
- Georgia Institute of Technology (contact: Rebecca Watts Hull, Assistant Director, Faculty Development for Sustainability Education Initiatives, Center for Teaching and Learning)
- Gonzaga University Cataldo Project (contact: Brian Henning, Director, Climate Institute; Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy, and Karli Honebein, Climate Literacy Program Coordinator, Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment)
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (contact: Meike Sauerwein, Lecturer, Division of Environment and Sustainability; Principal Coordinator, Sustainability Education Community of Practice)
- Humber College (contact Lindsay Walker, Associate Director, Sustainability)
- Miller Worley Center for the Environment, Mount Holyoke College (contact: Olivia Aguilar, Leslie and Sarah Miller Director of the Miller Worley Center for the Environment)
- OCAD University (contact: Victoria Ho, Advisor, Strategic Sustainability)
- Santa Clara University (contact: Lindsey Kalkbrenner, Director of the Center for Sustainability, Chad Raphael, Faculty Associate for Sustainability, and Veronica Johnson, Academics & Engagement Program Manager)
- Technological University Dublin (contact: Brian Gormley, Head of Sustainability Education)
- University of Hawai‘i System (contact: Denise Konan, Dean, College of Social Sciences, and Aya Kimura, Professor of Sociology)
- University of Illinois Chicago (contact: Heather O’Leary, Sustainability Engagement Program Director, and Andy Mitchell, Assistant Vice Chancellor and Director of Sustainability)
- University of Richmond (contact: Daniel Hart, Associate Director of Sustainability and Environmental Justice)
- University of Waterloo (contact: Mat Thijssen, Director of Sustainability)
- Western Washington University / Seattle University (contact: Grace Wang, Academic Program Director, Sustainability, and Phillip Thompson, Director, Center for Environmental Justice and Sustainability)
Checkout the current centers (marked with purple pins) and participants in the support group (marked with blue pins)!