The EcoLeague is a consortium of six liberal arts colleges dedicated to environmental stewardship, social change, and educating students to build a sustainable future.
While most consortia in the United States are based on geographic proximity, the EcoLeague consortium is grounded in bio-regional, sustainability focused education. With member colleges across the United States, the EcoLeague possesses many of the advantages of a university and a small liberal arts college providing a large and talented faculty; unique, sophisticated facilities; individualized attention; and experiential learning. Through a student exchange program, students can attend any of the EcoLeague colleges while enrolled at their home college. These diverse experiences help prepare today’s college students to work and live in a rapidly changing and increasingly global world.
EcoLeague Value Proposition
EcoLeague colleges and universities are leaders in experiential, place-based, ecological, and sustainability-focused learning, climate change action, sustainable operations, and liberal arts education. Member college students, through participation in the EcoLeague semester exchange program, can immerse themselves in field studies and research in diverse bioregions across North America, gain new perspectives and contextualize knowledge through experiential learning in new places, explore fields of study not available at their home campus, and experience community in different settings. Member college faculty benefit from collaborations with colleagues across the consortium and consortium academic leaders benefit from working with peers at the member colleges and universities.
Colleges and universities interested in joining the EcoLeague can read the full EcoLeague Value Proposition: EcoLeague Value Proposition
Our Shared Values
Colleges of the EcoLeague consortium share a commitment to learning that builds a just, peaceful, and sustainable world.
We draw on the best traditions of the liberal arts and emphasize innovative methods of learning that are hands-on, experiential, place-based, and cross-disciplinary. Our students and faculty engage in inquiry, practice, and action that prepare and motivate them to solve the critical problems of our times.
We acknowledge that our institutions inhabit lands that lie within the traditional territories of Indigenous peoples who honored and stewarded these lands for millennia. Through our educational programs, institutional reforms, and community engagement, we strive to understand and teach the histories and ongoing impact of colonialism, racism, and slavery that have shaped this continent and the world, and develop and support efforts within our campuses, communities, and globally to undo these legacies of injustice.
We work to make our campuses and communities more inclusive, equitable, and supportive of diverse students, faculty, staff, alumni, and residents. We acknowledge and embrace responsibility for acting in ways that advance conditions for a sustainable world – respect and care for nature, universal human rights and freedoms, democratic governance, quality education for all, economic justice, intra- and intergenerational equity and peace.
We have joined together to broaden and add value to learning for sustainability across our institutions as part of our individual and collective efforts to achieve these goals.
Programs We Offer
Through the EcoLeague, these small liberal arts colleges leverage capacity in a variety of ways and are part of a larger community! For students and faculty, EcoLeague offers:
- Student exchange program
- Faculty collaborations
- Shared courses, academic certificates, and other educational programs
- Joint field courses
We invite you to learn more about our programs by visiting our students and faculty webpages.
Click here to request more information about any of our members, and here for EcoLeague News and Events.