Leadership

The following resources provide support on leading change toward climate neutrality and sustainability. Leadership takes many forms and comes from all levels of the organization, and these resources are relevant to all audiences – administrators, faculty, staff, students, and others. For the ACUPCC, presidential leadership is particularly important to ensure that sustainability is a strategic priority for the institution and that the people working on implementation are empowered and sufficiently resourced to be successful.

The Presidential Fellows Program
The ACUPCC Steering Committee
The Implementation Liaison Support Committee

Publications

Institutionalizing Sustainability

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Creating a healthy, just, and sustainable society must be central to the core purpose of any organization in the 21st century. In the case of colleges and universities that means educating students and creating new knowledge through research, as well as modeling sustainability in operations and promoting sustainability through community engagement.

Leading Profound Change: A Resource for Presidents & Chancellors

Provides an overview of research on select approaches to leading transformational change and examples of successful strategies from ACUPCC campuses to help with the big-picture thinking needed to sustain enthusiasm and implement climate action plans over the long-term.

A Call for Climate Leadership: Progress and Opportunities in Addressing the Defining Challenge of our Time

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Why sign the Presidents’ Climate Commitment? A resource that makes the case for joining the ACUPCC network with sections on “Benefits and Opportunities,” “Climate Leadership in Action,” “Roadmap to Climate Neutrality,” “Program Overview,” and more.

Videos

Bold & Exemplary: Chatham's Commitment

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Webinars

The Leadership Factor: Implementing Sustainability in Higher Education

August, 2010

Panelists: Dr. Anthony Cortese, President of Second Nature; Dr. Glenn Cummings, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Office of Vocational and Adult Education at the US Department of Education; Dr. Kathleen Schatzberg, President of Cape Cod Community College; James L. Buizer, Executive Director for Strategic Institutional Advancement & Science Policy Advisor to the President, Arizona State University.