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HEASC Leading the Way to Advance Sustainability
The Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) is an informal network of higher education associations (HEAs) with a commitment to advancing sustainability in both their constituencies and in the system of higher education itself. We seek to mainstream help within higher education to exert strong leadership in making education, research, and practice for a sustainable society. Higher Education’s leadership is critical to help businesses become sustainable, to have strong thriving and secure communities, and to provide economic opportunities for the broadest number of people while preserving the life support system on which all future generations depend.

HEASC will support its members’ work in advancing sustainability by:

  • Promoting and enhancing each others’ sustainability efforts;
  • Sharing and exchanging information, knowledge, and experiences;
  • Building the capacity of HEA’s to make sustainability a goal of their programming and practices;
  • Enhancing professional development, including training in sustainability for HEA staff and their constituents;
  • Integrating sustainability into associations’ professional development programs;
  • Connecting HEAs to the best expertise, resources and information in sustainability for higher education;
  • Producing a quarterly newsletter on trends in sustainability in higher education, including HEA efforts; and
  • Engaging in joint projects, and in projects with other associations and organizations that advance sustainability.

Members

  • National Association of College & University Business Officers (NACUBO)
  • American Association of State Colleges & Universities (AASCU)
  • Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
  • ACPA/College Student Educators International Association of College Unions International (ACUI)
  • Association of Governing Boards of Universities & Colleges (AGB)
  • Association of Higher Education Facilities Officers (APPA)
  • National Association of Educational Procurement (NAEP)
  • Society for College & University Planning (SCUP)

Steering Committee

  • Matt Hamill (Chair), NACUBO
  • Greg Roberts, ACPA
  • Lander Medlin, APPA
  • John Hammang, AASCU
  • Judy Walton, AASHE
  • Doreen Murner, NAEP
  • Jolene Knapp, SCUP

Coordinating Agent

The coordinating function will be handled by Second Nature (SN). SN was founded in 1993 to work with college and university campuses across the country as they make sustainability an integral goal of learning and practice. SN works with administrators, faculty, staff and students at colleges and universities and with higher education organizations across the country to make the principles of sustainability the foundation of all learning, practice and collaboration with local communities. More than any other single organization, Second Nature has led the way in helping over 500 colleges and universities throughout the country begin to move towards sustainability. The primary contacts for HEASC members will be SN President Anthony Cortese, and University Leaders for a Sustainable Future senior fellow and U.S. Partnership for the Decade of Education for Sustainable Development, Higher Education co-chair, Debra Rowe.

Contact Information:

Anthony D. Cortese, ScD
Second Nature
18 Tremont Street, Suite 1120
Boston, MA 02108
617-224-1610
adcortese@secondnature.org
http://www.aashe.org/heasc/


  
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