October 23, 2018
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Princeton Review Releases Guide to 399 Green Colleges
The Princeton Review’s 2018 Guide to 399 Green Colleges is a free guide that profiles universities and colleges with commitments to sustainability based on their academic offerings, campus policies, initiatives and activities. The edition includes a Top 50 Green Colleges list. In related news, STARS ratings have now been added to campus profiles on Princeton Review website. The rating is displayed in the Sustainability section of the Campus Life tab.
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U Colorado Boulder Helps B Lab Map Its Work to the SDGs
The new partnership between university’s Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility and B Lab will map the 1,000 indicators of the B Impact Assessment to the targets underlying the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), as well as the more than 1,500 indicators featured in the SDG Compass.
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Academics
Tufts U to Offer Master’s Degree in Sustainability
Stanford U Launches Sustainable Finance Research Program
Engagement
U Calgary Begins Sustainable Office Program
Indiana U Bloomington Shares First Harvest From Campus Garden
Mississippi State U Opens Community Garden
Anglia Ruskin U Pilots Behavior Change Program
Operations
U Nebraska Enters 5-Year Partnership to Save Energy
U New Hampshire Opens Aquaponic Greenhouse Facility
Marshall U Offers Bike Share Program
U Texas Dallas Implements Post-Consumer Composting
Planning & Administration
U Arizona Receives Over $1M for Graduate Program Pipeline for Minority Students
Stony Brook U Professor Earns Sustainable Engineering Forum Education Award
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Opportunities
Call for AASHE Advisory Council Applications
AASHE seeks interested candidates to serve on its Advisory Council, which provides advice and guidance on high­-level strategy as well as specific AASHE programs and services. New this year, the STARS Technical Advisors are being incorporated into the Advisory Council. The AC brings together leaders from diverse backgrounds to identify the opportunities and challenges facing sustainability in higher education. Applications are being accepted through Nov. 14.
New Resources
2018 AASHE Award Winning Research
Abstracts and links associated with the six papers that received AASHE’s Campus Sustainability Research Award in 2018 are available in the Campus Sustainability Hub. They are:

Connecting Competences and Pedagogical Approaches for Sustainable Development in Higher Education
Designing a Proxy Carbon Price Strategy for Smith College
Green for All? Gender Segregation and Green Fields of Study in American Higher Education
Infusing Sustainability in Higher Education in Ireland: The Green Curriculum Model and the Dispositions, Abilities and Behaviors Competency Framework
Recapturing the Learning Opportunities of University Sustainability Indicators
Towards a Universal Carbon Footprint Standard: A Case Study of Carbon Management at Universities
Events
AASHE Webinar: Position Your Student Sustainability Committee as a Leadership Training Opportunity
Oct. 24, 2018 (3:00 p.m. Eastern) – Online
AASHE Webinar: A New Way to Benchmark Your Sustainable Purchasing Program
Nov. 7, 2018 (3:00 p.m. Eastern) – Online
Ashoka U Exchange 2019: Beyond Boundaries & Borders: Expanding Possibilities for the Future of Higher Ed
Feb. 21-23, 2019 – San Diego, California
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Jobs & Internships

Energy Management Coordinator
University of Mississippi

Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Program
Humboldt State University

Assistant Professor, Environmental Science
Barnard College

Assistant Professor, Environmental Sustainability
Barnard College

Finance & Administration Director
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