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September 28, 2009

Dancing with the STARS

Ashley Thorne

AASHE publishes an early version of a project called the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS) to measure colleges' sustainability progress.

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September 25, 2009

Student Gov Officers Appointed by Race at UMass

Ashley Thorne

Alana Goodman, a student at the University of Massachusetts, has published an excellent article, "Institutionalized Racism in Student Government," in the Collegian, the schoool's student newspap......

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September 25, 2009

UW-Oshkosh Students Reexamine Sustainability

Ashley Thorne

The University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh student newspaper, the Advance-Titan, has published an article about our article "Sustainability is a Waste." The staff writes, "the idea that an ideology en......

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September 25, 2009

Campus Reform Looks Forward

Ashley Thorne

NAS welcomes a new web-based effort to reform higher education.

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September 24, 2009

Why are College Presidents in Love with "Sustainability"?

Ashley Thorne

Peter Wood's article, "Never Waste a Good Cliché," ponders the reasons college presidents sign their institutions up for the American College and University Presidents Climate Commit......

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