Student Perspectives on Advancing Sustainability at Ohio State
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2023-05
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This report details the research our capstone group conducted for our community partner, The Ohio State University Sustainability Institute, collecting student opinions on the ideal future for sustainability education at the university. In the fall of 2022, the Sustainability Institute began an initiative called Advancing Sustainability at Ohio State (ASOS) with the goal of transforming the university into a nationwide leader in sustainability. We were tasked with gathering insights from current Ohio State students into their ideal future of sustainability education at the university to inform the planning of this ASOS initiative. We conducted research via two one-hour focus group sessions and a survey which was distributed to all current undergraduate and graduate students. From our engagement with students, we derived five major themes: a lack of sustainability accessibility, a desire for integration of sustainability into current courses, a need for university transparency, a recommendation to incentivize widespread student involvement, and a need for more sustainability career development. Our key recommendations include integrating sustainability into existing courses, creating a centralized source of sustainability information, and publishing data about current university sustainability initiatives.
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Course Code: ENR 4567
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sustainability, education, curriculum, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Student perspectives, student survey, student focus group, sustainability leader