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 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 Every 100 years or so, American colleges and universities begin a morphing process. These institutions have morphed from colonial colleges to universities, from local teaching academies to universities, or from colleges without degree programs to organized centers for advanced learning with many subjects being taught. Here in the twenty-first century, a new transformation has begun. 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
Peggy F. Barlett is Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. She received a BA in anthropology from Grinnell College (1969) and the PhD in anthropology at Columbia University (1975). A cultural anthropologist specializing in agricultural systems and sustainable development, she carried out fieldwork in economic anthropology in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and rural Georgia (USA). Earlier work focused on farmer decision making, rural social change, and industrial agriculture. She has published Agricultural Choice and Change: Decision Making in a Costa Rican Community (1982, Rutgers University Press), American Dreams, Rural Realities: Family Farms in Crisis (1993, University of North Carolina Press) and is editor of Agricultural Decision Making: Anthropological Contributions to Rural Development (1980, Academic Press).Recently, interests in the challenge of sustainability in urban Atlanta have given her an opportunity to return to early training in applied anthropology and to combine it with interests in political economy, group dynamics, and personal development. Part of a growing movement toward sustainability at Emory, she has focused on expanding awareness of environmental issues through curriculum development (the Piedmont Project), campus policies, and connections to place. She also has interests in local food systems and a local Watershed Alliance. She is the coeditor (with Geoffrey Chase) of Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (MIT Press, 2004). 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).
This work will appeal to environmentalists and educators looking for leadership examples of passionate engagement along with analysis and careful academic planning. Library Journal
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