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Eastern Connecticut State University is a proud member of the Association for Sustainability in Higher Education, "AASHE" and a participant in the Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System, "STARS" as a STARS SILVER rated institution. This web page currently serves as a source for information about our activities regarding the Education and Research factors within the STARS system.
Eastern is committed to integrating sustainability into its curriculum and making sustainability part of the educational experience for all students. The goal of sustainability education is to provide all students the knowledge and skills to help create a sustainable economy, society, and environment. In order to encourage faculty to develop and offer appropriate courses, the university will maintain and make publicly available an inventory of courses which are either sustainability-focused or sustainability-related. Sustainability-focused courses concentrate on the concept of sustainability, or study the application of sustainability concepts and strategies, or examine issues and topics in terms of their relevance to sustainability. For these courses sustainability or some aspect of sustainability is the focus of the course.
Sustainability-related courses incorporate sustainability as a distinct course component or module or include sustainability as a course theme. For these course sustainability or some aspect of sustainability is a significant component of the course, but not the focus of the course.
The goal of sustainability research is to help create a sustainable economy, society, and environment. Eastern encourages faculty to develop sustainability research or enhance existing research for the purpose of attaining the aforementioned goal. The university will maintain and make publicly available an inventory of all faculty research that is either sustainability-focused or sustainability-related. Sustainability-focused research concentrates on the concept of sustainability, or studies the application of sustainability concepts and strategies, or examines issues and topics in terms of their relevance to sustainability (e.g., social equity; environmental stewardship; technological advancement of sustainability). Sustainability or some aspect of sustainability is central to this research.
Sustainability-related research incorporates sustainability as a distinct component of the faculty member's research. For this research, sustainability or some aspect of sustainability is a significant component, but not the focus of the research.