AASHE Student Summit

A Snapshot of Tomorrow's Leaders

The 2011 AASHE Student Summit will host more than 600 attendees, a keynote session with Bill McKibben founder of 350.org, and several motivating peer-to-peer presentation sessions.

What Are Students Saying?

"I really enjoyed the opportunity to network and talk with other students from other colleges/universities!"

"The most useful part of the presentation was listening to the obstacles that people had to overcome to achieve change. It is encouraging knowing that you are not alone when you struggle to achieve something on your campus."

AASHE 2011 Student Summit Schedule

8:00am - 11:00am Community Service Project

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• Northside Neighborhood Blitz The Black and Gold City Goes Green campaign, PSEC, and Northside community groups are teaming up to blitz East Allegheny–Pittsburgh style! Equipped with compact fluorescent bulbs, recycling bags and schedules, and ways to cancel junk mail and recycle second fridges, blitz volunteers will go door to door engaging residents. Volunteers will be giving neighbors tools to save money, conserve energy, and help to tackle global warming and air pollution–one street at a time

• River and Trail Clean-up: Spend the morning outdoors with Pittsburgh’s Friends of the Riverfront, Allegheny CleanWays, and Carnegie Mellon’s Net Impact chapter as we help clean up some of the bike trails and waterways near the Convention Center. Activities will include brush clearing, weed cutting, earth moving, and wrestling out tires from the muddy riverbank. Come prepared to get dirty, have fun, meet other students and local volunteers, and become familiar with the strong environmental community of Pittsburgh. Must be 18 or older.

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11:00am - 12:00pm Student Summit Check-In
11:00am - 12:00pm Student Poster Session
12:00 - 1:10pm Welcome and Keynote Address with Bill McKibben (Please note that lunch is not provided. There will be food kiosks available)
1:15 - 2:15pm Concurrent Session Workshops

• Students Take the Lead for Innovative Sustainability Programs at America's most Northern University (Michele Hebert, University of Alaska, Fairbanks)
• Institutionalizing Innovation: Student Government "sustainability" bodies and roles (Chris Gassman, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University)

1:15 - 2:15pm Panel Discussions

• Student-Powered Sustainability, Successes and Challenges of Our First Year (Kevin Ordean,Northern Arizona University; Melody Hartke,Northern Arizona University)
• Creating Sustainable Social Change: Student Engagement on Environmental Justice at Campuses ("Erika Kociolek, Duke University; Sarah Dawn Haynes, University of Colorado at Boulder, CU Environmental Center; Susan Beckett, University of Colorado at Boulder, CU Environmental Center; Meghan Montgomery, University of Colorado at Boulder, CU Environmental Center;Andrea Zaragoza-Ballesteros, University of Colorado at Boulder, CU Environmental Center)

1:15 - 1:30pm Briefings and Papers

• UCSB's Student Services Renewable Energy Initiative and the Net Zero Project (Michael Hewitt, UCSB;
  Clayton Carlson UCSB)
• The Laboratory of Democracy: Sustainability Research, Education and Action at the State Level (Matthew Cecil, DePauw Environmental Policy Project (D.E.P.P.) at DePauw University)
• Energizing Sustainability on Campus Through Student Action (Nathanial Cook, Concordia College; Shane Sessions, Concordia College)

1:30 - 1:45pm Briefings and Papers

• Student Involvement in Campus LEED Certification Projects (Sruti Bharat,University of California, Berkeley)
• Green Funds: Expanding the Students' Role in Shaping More Sustainable Universities (Rebecca Schroeder,University of Pittsburgh; Eva Resnick-Day, University of Pittsburgh;Seth Bush University of Pittsburgh)
• Sustainability Student Worker Network (K Christian Bangert, Macalester College)

1:45 - 2:00pm Briefings and Papers

• The Role of the LEED Rating System in Higher Education: Recent Trends and Status (Brooks Dougherty, MAP)
• Allocating a Student Green Fund - First year experience (Benjamin Ponkratz, University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire)
• Students Leading STARS (Morgan Anderson, Westminster College; Kyle Knutson, Westminster College)

2:00 - 2:15pm Briefings and Papers

• Community organizing for energy conservation: The Power Police (Eric Sannerud, Energy Efficiency Student Alliance)
• Student Designed Sustainability Curriculum Intended to Create Shift in Campus Culture (Philippe Topdjian, Babson College; Shoney Yakubjanov; Babson College)
• The Campus Beet: A Student-Led Sustainable Café Initiative (Amelia Stefanac, Western Michigan University; Zachary Waas Smith, Western Michigan University)

2:20 - 2:50pm Networking Opportunities
3:00 - 4:00pm Open Space Session: multiple locations will be available for open space sessions where students can discuss any and all campus sustainability topics
4:15 - 4:30pm Closing

Additional Student Opportunities & Specials

• Student Meet-up: Stop by for this great networking opportunity on Tuesday from 4:30-6:00pm followed by a pay-on-your-own group dinner at a local restaurant

• Make sure you check out all of the Networking Luncheons - attend one that you are interested in!

2011 Student Summit Partners

While you are in Pittsburgh stop by Franktuary show them your Student Summit or Conference Badge and receive 10% off a Meal Deal or 15% off a Locavore Meal Deal. Franks for eating sustainably! Located at 325 Oliver Avenue, in Trinity Cathedral. M - F, 10 am to 3 pm.

Student Summit Marketing

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2010 Student Summit Perspectives

Read about the largest AASHE Student Summit yet!
Learn more from a Student Attendee blogger in this engaging blog post.

2010 AASHE Student Summit Community Service Volunteers

Students at last years Summit participated in the Get to Work Community Service project in downtown Denver on 10.10.10, a 350.org production.