Board of Advisors

Richard M. Clugston
Executive Director University Leaders for a Sustainable Future

Rick Clugston is Executive Director of the Center for Respect of Life and Environment, and publisher and editor of Earth Ethics. He is Vice President for Higher Education of the Humane Society of the United States. He directs the Secretariat of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future and the Secretariat for the Earth Charter USA Campaign. Dr. Clugston currently serves as the Chair of the Global Higher Education for Sustainability Partnership, and is the Deputy Editor of The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education. He serves on the Steering Committee of the Earth Charter Initiative.

Dr. Clugston worked for the University of Minnesota for 11 years, first as a faculty member in the College of Human Ecology, and later as a strategic planner in Academic Affairs, Continuing Education and the Office of the President. He was a consultant to the State Department of Education, the Minnesota Business Partnership, and various colleges and school systems on educational improvement. Dr. Clugston has taught and published on human development, strategic planning, educational reform, and most recently on environmental ethics, spirituality and sustainability.

He received his doctorate in Higher Education from the University of Minnesota (1987), and his masters in Human Development from the University of Chicago (1977). As an undergraduate psychology and biochemistry major at the University of Minnesota (1975), he received the Mayo Foundation Scholarship for Medicine and Medicine Related Fields. His doctoral thesis was selected as dissertation of the year by the American Association of University Administrators.

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