Caroline Burkholder
Senior Sustainability Manager, Temple University
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As Senior Sustainability Manager, Caroline oversees the development of strategic outreach and engagement programs and communication campaigns to increase visibility of Temple’s climate commitment, improve literacy on critical sustainability and environmental justice issues, and build the capacity of the students, staff, and faculty to support the university's sustainability efforts. She coordinates and facilitates the implementation of the university's climate action plan and campus sustainability initiatives and assists in institutional reporting.
Prior to joining the Office of Sustainability, Caroline worked as an electoral and advocacy organizer and political campaign strategist, most recently serving as the Pennsylvania State Director of Defend Our Future, the campus climate action organizing project of the Environmental Defense Fund. Caroline graduated from Florida State University with a B.S. in Sociology and a B.A. in American Studies in 2014.
In 2023, Caroline earned a Master of Arts in Urban Bioethics from Temple University Lewis Katz School of Medicine. Her thesis investigated the role of university health systems in climate action planning processes, and she has general research interests in organizational ethics, critical urban studies, spatial justice, environmental health equity, and climate embodiment.
Curating Sustainability: Leveraging Institutional Repositories for Impact
Sustainability work happens across campus, but it is often scattered, undocumented, or undervalued. This lightning talk explores the Climate Change, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice Collection within TUScholarShare, Temple University’s open access institutional repository. The repository supports the needs of the Temple University community around sharing, promoting, and archiving the wide range of scholarly works created in the course of both teaching and research.
As a curated sub-community of Faculty/Research Works, the Climate Change, Sustainability, and Environmental Justice Collection brings together articles, teaching and learning materials, datasets, and other outputs from faculty, student researchers, instructors, and professional staff into a centralized, open access space.
Intentionally inclusive of non-traditional, extra-academic scholarship and practitioner knowledge, the collection elevates the contributions of staff and campus stakeholders who play a critical role in advancing institutional sustainability goals. By capturing best practices, applied work, and diverse forms of knowledge production, the collection helps document progress, not only through the direct provision of baseline data but also through strengthening a shared sustainability culture across disciplines.
Serving as a home for co-curricular learning and student research, the collection transforms individual projects into lasting, discoverable resources. It also supports curricular development by enabling faculty to share teaching materials and resources to integrate sustainability more deeply into coursework. In doing so, the collection facilitates a growing community of practice among educators and practitioners. Additionally, the collection functions as a hub for sustainability-focused faculty and their scholarship, promoting inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration, and another means of faculty training and development.
This session will highlight strategies for growing engagement, increasing participation, and leveraging institutional repositories as tools for understanding impact and building community.
Caroline Burkholder
Senior Sustainability Manager, Temple University
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