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Sustainability Education

PSU has adopted sustainability as a learning outcome for all Portland State students.  This outcome states that as a result of attending PSU, "students will identify, act on, and evaluate their professional and personal actions with the knowledge and appreciation of interconnections among economic, environmental, and social perspectives in order to create a more sustainable future."

We are approaching sustainability not as a new and separate topic but as a way of living and working and thus integrating sustainble concepts into both disciplinary majors and general education. To assist with the process of integration, PSU has developed the following programs:

 

 

To learn more about the rationale behind the sustainability learning outcome, visit PSU's Institutional Assessment Council's website.

 

Please note that this website may not fully represent all that PSU has to offer in sustainability as it is a multidisciplinary subject. If you cannot find something you are looking for or would like to learn more about an academic sustainability program, please contact us at sustainability@pdx.edu. Lists of the sustainability-focused and sustainability-related courses identified through the STARS reporting process can be found here and here, respectively.  The PSU Ecowiki also maintains a list of all the identified sustainability courses offered at PSU.