What does climate change mean for the future of higher education?
Universities on Fire: Higher Education in the Climate Crisis (Johns Hopkins University Press) (winner of the 2025 American Association of Colleges and Universities Ness Book Award) dives deeply into this question, exploring how global warming might impact colleges and universities, and how academics might respond.
- How a campus might change, from creating new buildings and renovating old ones to generating local power, rethinking grounds, changing food service, and revolutionizing transportation
- What climate change means for academic research and teaching
- What challenges there are campus-community relations in an era of escalating climate crises, and what opportunities
- What role does higher education play in the world as civilization rethinks its fundamental operations and purpose?
- How should academics change plans if global warming becomes better or worse than projected?
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