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

  • Center for Sustainability at Ramapo College of New Jersey (contact: Ashwani Vasishth, Professor, Director, Center for Sustainability)
  • Center for Sustainability Education at Dickinson College (contact: Lindsey Lyons, Assistant Director, Center for Sustainability Education)
  • Driftless Region Sustainability in Education Project (contact: Casey Meehan, Sustainability Coordinator, Western Technical College)
  • Gonzaga University Center for Climate, Society, and the Environment’s Cataldo Project (contact: Brian Henning, Director, Climate Center; Professor of Environmental Studies and Philosophy)
  • Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (contact: Davis Bookhart, Senior Manager & Head, Sustainability Unit)
  • Humber College (contact Lindsay Walker, Associate Director, Sustainability)
  • Johnson County Community College (contact: Jay Antle, Executive Director, Center for Sustainability)
  • OCAD University (contact: Victoria Ho, Advisor, Strategic Sustainability)
  • Santa Clara University (contact: Lindsey Kalkbrenner, Director of the Center for Sustainability)
  • The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (contact: Marianella Franklin, Chief Sustainability Officer)
  • The Washington Center for Sustainability Education at Seattle University and Western Washington University (contact: Grace Wang, Academic Program Director, Sustainability)
  • University of Hawai‘i System (contact: Denise Konan, Dean, College of Social Sciences)
  • University of Illinois Chicago – Chicago Sustainability Across the Curriculum Initiative (contact: Christopher Anderson, Student Sustainability Program Director)
  • University of Richmond (contact: Daniel Hart, Associate Director of Sustainability and Environmental Justice)
  • University of South Carolina – Columbia (contact: Larry Cook, Director, Office of Sustainability)

Checkout the current centers (marked with purple pins) and participants in the support group (marked with blue pins) and find one near you!

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