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The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education provides a resource center full of materials related to ecological sustainability on campus, including resources for classes which address sustainability.

UC Davis has created a system to issue "digital badges" to certify student growth in a set of seven core intellectual competencies. This system exists along side the degree, major, and course grade, and is designed to act as something similar to an electronic portfolio to presents students' particular accomplishments.

Like Anastasia Salter, I love making resolutions, and am resolutely bad at keeping them. I think her focus here makes a lot of sense, choosing habits which will be sustainable and support a sense of balance.

Not only in science, but in all disciplines, we need to question the narratives about talent and moments of revelation and instead talk about hard, sustained work. How do you talk to students who are waiting, instead of working, for a subject to "click"?

"From love letters to pen pals, families, relationships, friendships, professional and creative collaborations, and the brilliant sudden intimacy between new acquaintances, correspondence over distance has sustained us for ages uncounted." Hopeful thoughts about pen pals, chain letters, and "writer's letters" from Sean Michael Morris.

As we think about the role of sustainability for the College and our curriculum, this panel discussion on addressing environmental justice in the curriculum makes for good listening.