The Academic Center for Sustainability provides opportunities and facilitates sustainability education and scholarship. Our mission is to work across all academic disciplines to equip the Siena community with knowledge, tools, and opportunities to create a more just, peaceful and humane world for both people and planet.
Academic sustainability is a highly interdisciplinary field that draws from many scholarly disciplines and covers a range of topics from social justice to combating climate change. The ACS works across all three schools, using these topics as unifying themes, to develop key sustainability competencies. These are skills needed to ensure sustainability actions will have a positive and lasting impact, are tools for important and innovative sustainability scholarship, and help students meet sustainability workforce demands and become future sustainability professionals.
Interested in getting involved in sustainability at Siena?
- Students can run for senate and join the Sustainability and Campus Beautification subcommittee.
- Take a sustainability-focused or -themed course. Enroll in the Academic Center for Sustainability Canvas course to get an up-to-date list.
- Consider a minor in Environmental Studies, Peace Studies, and Franciscan Service and Advocacy.
- Participate in sustainability events through the Environmental Club, Organic Garden Club, or Care for Creation Club.
- Apply to be a Sustainability Scholar or Garden Steward. Open positions are posted on Handshake.
- Faculty and staff can join the Campus Sustainability Steering Committee.
- Have an idea to help make the campus more sustainable? Students, faculty, and staff can apply for a sustainability grant to fund a campus sustainability project.
- Faculty can apply for a curriculum development grant.
