"The School of Sustainability not only provides an ample academic foundation, it also helps its students apply creative systems-thinking approaches and cutting-edge technologies to real-world sustainability problems. Through the school, I attained employment opportunities which reinforced my coursework, providing me hands-on work experiences that enriched my term papers and applied-project thesis."
"The School of Sustainability is a melting pot of experts in different fields who have come together in the same place to teach you to solve real problems. In comparison to other degrees where you're training to be one piece of a puzzle, with sustainability, you can have an effect on each part of the process. Sustainability combines all the things I'm interested in into one degree."
"The School of Sustainability has opened my eyes to sustainability issues that I had never thought of. It has taught me that sustainability goes way beyond changing a light bulb and driving my car less. It is about the social interactions you make in your community. SOS has taught me to be passionate about any idea I may have and any issue I find to be important because it is highly likely that there are others who are similarly passionate."
"Our tribal elders teach us that life is a circle - we are not outside nature, we are a part of it. The Native American worldview is similar to the philosophy of sustainability, so the School of Sustainability is a good fit for me. I felt an instant connection with this place."
"Sustainability is all about connections - reconnecting people to their places, and building networks between diverse branches of society.
This program has done an amazing job at bringing together people from many backgrounds in such a way that we can truly begin to understand the multi-faceted approach that is necessary toward achieving sustainability."
"The field of sustainability is constantly changing, which is challenging and exciting. I've gotten great advice from my professors about how the School of Sustainability will prepare me for a career after graduation, and my transdisciplinary classes have linked everything so clearly."
"It's really interesting to work in such an interdisciplinary
setting and interact with people from so many different backgrounds (both
academically and culturally). It’s also exciting to be able to build a new program in a new field,
and the faculty and staff have been incredibly supportive in helping us
to make the transition to this new way of thinking."
"When I tried to decide on a major, sustainability looked like something worthwhile that I would really enjoy doing. Now that I'm here, I'm not regretting my choice. In just my first semester I've already been exposed to so many world problems and cause-and-effect issues that I never would have thought of before."
"Being in the School of Sustainability has given me a more global perspective - especially through studying current, real world international situations. Everyone working in the Global Institute of Sustainability has a can-do attitude, alongside critical problem-solving skills, which makes for the best school in the world."Established in 2007, the School of Sustainability brings together multiple disciplines and leaders to create and share knowledge, train a new generation of scholars and practitioners, and develop practical solutions to the most pressing environmental, economic, and social challenges of sustainability - especially as they relate to urban areas.
