Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education
Richard M. Clugston
Richard M. Clugston
Project Coordinator, Earth Charter Scholarship Project
Rick Clugston is Project Coordinator for the Earth Charter Scholarship Project at the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education at Florida Gulf Coast University. Clugston also serves as the Earth Charter Coordinator for the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University.
From 1991-2008, Rick was a Vice President of The Humane Society of the United States and Executive Director of the Center for Respect of Life and Environment, where he also directed the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future; the Sustainable Universities Assessment and Evaluation Project; and Earth Charter USA
Dr. Clugston served on the the Earth Charter International Steering Committee where he chaired the fundraising committee. He now serves on the Earth Charter International Council and on the boards of the Wolfe’s Neck Farm Foundation (Maine, USA), and the Bonne Bay Lighthouse Center (Newfoundland, Canada). Dr. Clugston is the publisher and editor of Earth Ethics, the Deputy Editor of The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education (MCB University Publications), and on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Education for Sustainable Development (Sage Publications). He was a cofounder of the Global Higher Education for Sustainability Partnership.
Prior to coming to Washington, Dr. Clugston worked for the University of Minnesota for 11 years, as a faculty member in the College of Human Ecology, and as a strategic planner in Academic Affairs, Continuing Education and the Office of the President. 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.
