This field report describes how innovative educational partnerships—when intentionally articulated around sustainability learning, faculty development, outcomes assessment, and quality assurance—build meaningful professional competencies critical to our shared future.

This collaboration is based upon the perspectives and expertise of five complementary efforts to advance sustainability: Engineering for One Planet, the dynamic movement behind the EOP Framework, a proven tool for integrating sustainability across engineering courses, programs, and institutions; Howard University’s Department of Chemical Engineering course on Process Design and Villanova University’s Sustainable Enterprise Executive Education & Development (SEED) program (both of which are piloting the use of TASK and TASK data); Sulitest Impact, the social enterprise behind the creation of TASK—The Assessment of Sustainability Knowledge; and ABET, the premier accreditation agency in the applied and natural sciences, computing, engineering and engineering technology. As such, speakers from each organization describe their discrete roles in, and processes for, building sustainability literacy among students across higher education.

For institutions seeking to develop a holistic approach to sustainability strategy, what emerges from this field report is the importance of engaging multiple, complementary, and diverse actors; embedding multiple layers of collegial nudging; and ensuring that impact is measured via assessment-based and data driven tools.

What you learn during this session from the engineering discipline perspective is immediately applicable to other disciplines and whole-institution approaches to sustainability. Protecting our one planet takes more than a village—it takes a global community of complementary and synergistic villages.