Krista Hiser, Ph.D. is an education researcher focusing on Climate Change Education and Sustainability in Higher Education.

In this special presentation for ProQuest, Krista will share trends and recommendations from her work that are relevant to academic librarians. Join this practical discussion of how college and university libraries can support all dimensions of Sustainability Education within their own institutional context.

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Biography:

Dr. Hiser is currently leading the Sustainability Education Accreditation Commission (SEAC), a community-led effort to align and uplift Sustainability and Sustainability Related degrees and certificates in higher education. SEAC has been developed in partnership with leading organizations including the National Sustainability Society, The Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, and the Global Council for Science and the Environment.

Krista is also a longtime professor at Kapiʻolani Community College, and has served as the Director of the Center for Sustainability across the Curriculum at the University of Hawaii’s ten campus system. Her blog, Teaching Climate Change in Higher Education, is associated with an ongoing study about how climate change impacts faculty work and curriculum.

She is an avid reader, and the host of the Ultimate Cli Fi Book Club, a popular professional development course offered through AASHE. Her doctorate is in Educational Administration and her 2012 dissertation focused on students as stakeholders in sustainability curriculum, and she co-authored one of the first papers on climate literacy and emotions in the college student population: Worry & Hope, What College Students Know, Think, Feel, and Do about Climate Change. Her most recent paper is a collaboration with climate scientists and indigenous scholars: Earth at Risk An urgent call to end the age of destruction and forge a just and sustainable future.