This June, delegates from institutions of higher education around the world gathered at Allegheny College for the Fifth World Symposium on Sustainable Development at Universities (WSSD-U-2022) to focus on educating the sustainability leaders of the future and on how to use community-engaged learning to train students to tackle the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). The 17 UN SDGs provide a global framework to address the climate and equity crisis by exploring not only what needs to happen to make change but also how individuals, communities, countries, and public and private-sector institutions can contribute.
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Why We Need to Fight for Our Students: The Example of Stephanie Land
It is a commonplace to say that our campuses need to be “student centered.” That we need to “meet students where they are” and recognize that our students are less