This two-day workshop, on Friday, March 9, and Monday, March 12, will allow attendees to explore how best to permeate sustainability, very broadly defined, across the higher education curriculum while disrupting disciplinary divides. The deadline to register is March 7. Ramapo College of New Jersey is one of 13 regional AASHE Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum.

This online event is designed for higher education instructors to infuse ecological stability, social equity, and economic vitality into their curriculum regardless of the discipline. Attendees will explore effective assessment of critical thinking skills, collaboration, creativity, and the ability to analyze, discuss and create solutions to real-world sustainability problems. The deadline to register is March 19. Moraine Valley Community College is one of 13 regional AASHE Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum.

This workshop will introduce best practices for integrating sustainability-focused undergraduate research across the curriculum, with an emphasis on community-based research. Participants will have the opportunity to design courses with a research component (from intro-level to capstone courses) as well as non-course-based research projects, such as summer research experiences and independent student-faculty projects. The registration deadline is April 15. Central College is one of 13 regional AASHE Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum.

Institutions and individuals can sign onto the March for Science’s open letter to Congress, of which AASHE is a signatory, asking it to approve the research funding and support needed to make evidence-based policies to prevent gun violence.

The College and University Recycling Coalition (CURC) is encouraging schools to participate in a survey to document waste reduction initiatives and strategies. The submitted information will be compiled into a report to be released in spring of 2018, and will be used to populate a database for CURC members and survey participants to compare themselves against similar institutions.

The Voter Friendly Campus designation program is a tool to support higher education institutions fulfilling the requirements of the Higher Education Act of 1965, which necessitates that institutions distribute voter registration forms to their students. The Voter Friendly Campus designation process provides guidelines for institutions to follow in order to create a more voter-friendly campus. Voter Friendly Campus Designation Interest Forms will be accepted until 150 institutions are accepted or April 2.

SustainUS invites applications to be part of a delegation of 15-20 young people that will attend the World Bank annual meetings from Oct. 9-15, 2017, in Washington, D.C. In partnership with civil society organizations, the SustainUS delegation aims to influence the World Bank Group to change its policies on climate change and equitable distribution of development finance. Applications are due by March 9.

The report, from Sightlines and The Sustainability Institute at the University of New Hampshire, explores how investments in sustainability have helped campuses to mitigate and adapt to climate change and provides a series of forward-looking recommendations across four widely-adopted strategies: fuel switching, energy efficiency, space management, and mechanical upgrades.

The Earth Day 2018 toolkit from Earth Day Network’s higher education campaign, MobilizeU, is a teach-in guide that aims to support institutions and individuals in taking personal responsibility for plastic pollution by choosing to reject, reduce, reuse and recycle plastics. The resources also includes a plastic pollution primer and action toolkit.

Using case studies from Europe, Africa, Asia and the Middle East, this book considers institutional responses, academic responses and student responses to situations of conflict, peace-building and resistance.