文档介绍:Assessment and Policy Development in Sustainability in Higher Education with AISHE
This article includes excerpts from an expanded article that will appear in a future issue of the International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education.
By Niko Roorda
The Dutch approach to the development of Sustainability in Higher Education (which from now will abbreviated to “SHE”, for short) has so far been essful. As in many countries, there are numerous initiatives in place at individual universities. But there is also a mittee, the “Committee on Sustainability in Higher Education”(CDHO). It started in 1998 as a rather informal collection of individual enthusiasts working in various universities, who sought a way to strengthen and help each other in their pioneering attempts to integrate sustainability in the educational programmes. In fact, it was students who took the initiative and formed the CDHO.
Between 1998 and now, the CDHO has taken the lead in the development of SHE in herlands. mittee is financed by the Dutch Government (the Ministry of Environment). Besides representatives of the major Dutch SHE projects, it consists of representatives of the Ministries of Environment, Education, Agriculture and Economical Affairs, and two rectors of universities.
mittee functions not only as anisation, but has also initiated a number of its own activities. For instance, there is a