Inspiring higher education to accelerate the sustainability transformation
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This April, join AASHE in celebrating Earth Day by sharing photos showcasing sustainability on your campus! Whether you’re planting trees, promoting green transportation options like biking, or launching energy-saving initiatives, we want to highlight your efforts. Upload your photos to the Campus Sustainability Hub or post them on social media with the hashtag: #AASHEearth. Let’s come together to showcase the incredible sustainability work happening across higher education!
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Join us June 5-6 for the AASHE Sustainability Education Forum 2025, building on the success of previous years. This dynamic event, based on Open Space Technology, provides a collaborative space for open discussion, knowledge sharing, and co-creating the future of sustainability education. Whether you’re a faculty member, curriculum developer, instructional designer, or simply passionate about sustainability education, this forum offers engaging conversations, valuable connections, and fresh insights to support your work. Registration is now open, and two featured speakers are confirmed (with more to come)!
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AASHE is thrilled to announce the recipients of the 2025 AASHE Sustainability Awards, which recognize outstanding achievements and leadership in advancing sustainability within higher education. This year’s winners have demonstrated exceptional commitment to creating a just, equitable, and sustainable future through innovative programs, impactful initiatives, and dedicated service. From fostering student engagement to promoting systemic change across campuses, their accomplishments inspire and elevate the global sustainability community. Congratulations to all the winners for their dedication and transformative contributions!
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AASHE is proud to present the 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award to Charles Hopkins, a visionary leader whose impact on sustainability and education spans decades. As the York University UNESCO Chair in Reorienting Education towards Sustainability since 1999, Charles has tirelessly advanced efforts to integrate sustainability principles across educational systems worldwide. From co-authoring Chapter 36 in Agenda 21 after the 1992 Earth Summit to initiating the International Network of Teacher Education Institutions (INTEI) and launching the #IndigenousESD network, his work has influenced policies and practices across more than 50 countries. Recognized globally with numerous honorary doctorates, professorships, and awards, his legacy continues to inspire a sustainable future.
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This interactive workshop invites participants to explore the inner dimensions of sustainability—our mindsets, beliefs, values, worldviews, and emotional and relational capacities—and how these internal factors influence our ability to create meaningful, lasting change in higher education. Through individual and group experiential exercises, participants will strengthen their connection with self, others, and Earth, while learning conceptual frameworks and tools that can be adapted to a range of educational contexts. The session also introduces emerging movements like the Inner Development Goals and their ties to the UN SDGs. Participants will leave with a deeper understanding of how inner development supports their sustainability work, as well as practical tools to bring this perspective into their teaching, leadership, and daily practice. Secure your spot today!
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Join us October 22-24, 2025, in Minneapolis, MN, for the AASHE Conference & Expo, where we’re celebrating 20 years of advancing sustainability in higher education! Connect with sustainability professionals, educators, students, and advocates for three days of inspiration, collaboration, and actionable insights that will drive meaningful change on your campus and beyond. Don’t forget, our Call for Proposals is now open through April 11, offering a great opportunity to share your expertise with a dynamic community of changemakers. Register now and take advantage of Early Bird rates! Stay tuned for more details on speakers, sessions, and special events at #AASHE2025.
Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) is a transparent, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance.
The largest stage to share effective models, policies, research, collaborations and transformative actions which advance sustainability in higher education.
A one-stop shop for toolkits and resource collections on all aspects of sustainability in higher education.
A weekly e-newsletter that delivers the latest in campus sustainability news, resources, opportunities, events, and jobs and internships.
Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS)
About AASHE
AASHE empowers higher education faculty, administrators, staff and students to be effective change agents and drivers of sustainability innovation. AASHE enables members to translate information into action by offering essential resources and professional development to a diverse, engaged community of sustainability leaders.
By sharing knowledge, cooperating on projects and fostering meaningful relationships, partners in the Mentorship Program help advance the field of higher education sustainability.
As the campus sustainability movement has evolved, a wide variety of networks of campus sustainability advocates have emerged. These networks, which are often formed along state, provincial and/or regional lines, share many goals with AASHE. For this reason, we have formalized a collaborative relationship with many of these networks through our Affiliates Program.
AASHE has partnered with 13 Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum on a pilot basis to offer workshops and other professional development opportunities on sustainability in the curriculum in an effort to increase the accessibility and diversity of sustainability-oriented training for faculty.
