New Book from our own Peggy Bartlett (Emory)- "Sustainability in Higher Education: Stories and Strategies for Transformation"

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Sustainability in Higher Education: Stories and Strategies for Transformation, edited by Peggy F. Barlett and Geoffrey W. Chase, from the MIT Press

College and university leaders across the United States describe how transformational changes are taking place on our campuses as sustainability becomes a key component of curriculum, policies, and programs.

2013 • 304 pp., 4 illus., • paperback • $26.95/£18.95 • 978-0-262-51965-6 http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262519656

“Stories from a growing revolution that is transforming campus operations and curriculum in higher education, told by intrepid and creative educators at the forefront. A must-read for administrators, faculty, students, and everyone interested in education.”

--David W. Orr, Oberlin College

“Colleges and universities of all types, sizes, and histories are advancing a new integrated learning focus on sustainability. This new focus, built around a value outcome rather than a science outcome only, is well outlined in this reader and is critical for all designers of our teaching, learning, and discovery enterprises to consider as they prepare the next generations for the complexities that we will all face as we attempt to build a more sustainable future.”

--Michael M. Crow, President, Arizona State University

“From among the diverse and flourishing efforts all across the US to embody sustainability in higher education, Barlett and Chase have again demonstrated that they have an uncanny ability to identify, coax, and pluck the sweetest and juiciest examples. Whether reflecting back on personal growth as an instructor or recounting the ways students were able to make community-wide shifts in just a couple of years that had eluded other leaders for decades, the book’s enthralling series of first-person narratives document the next phase of transformation, from pedagogical, to technical, to cultural.”

--L. Julian Keniry, co-founder of National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Ecology Program; author of Ecodemia and other publications

Peggy F. Barlett is Goodrich C. White Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. She is the author of American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis and the editor of Urban Place: Reconnections with the Natural World (MIT Press). Geoffrey W. Chase is Dean of Undergraduate Studies at San Diego State University. He is the editor of four textbooks and the coeditor (with Peggy Barlett) of Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (MIT Press).