Green is the new ivory : the rise of the sustainability imperative in U.S. higher education
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- As central social and political institutions, U.S. universities have an important public service calling that extends beyond their teaching and research mandate. Over the past two decades, increasing numbers of U.S. universities have reoriented their institutional priorities towards becoming more sustainable across the board, which includes "greening" their physical campuses as much as their curricula. This dissertation investigates the role of U.S. universities in the global sustainability movement, as well as the impact of the movement itself on the internal organization of universities. The findings suggest that the proliferation of sustainability-affirming practices and metrics between 2005-2020 has contributed to the emergence of a new and distinct imperative in U.S. higher education, which manifests itself through a variety of organizational pathways and is also impacted by the relationship between campuses and their neighboring communities (the so-called "town-gown" relations).
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Gavrila, Simona Gabriela |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ramirez, Francisco O |
| Thesis advisor | Ramirez, Francisco O |
| Thesis advisor | Bromley, Patricia, (Assistant professor of education) |
| Thesis advisor | Gumport, Patricia J |
| Thesis advisor | Meyer, John W |
| Degree committee member | Bromley, Patricia, (Assistant professor of education) |
| Degree committee member | Gumport, Patricia J |
| Degree committee member | Meyer, John W |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Graduate School of Education |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Simona Gabriela Gavrila. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Graduate School of Education. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/fw356ht1278 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Simona Gabriela Gavrila
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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