Sustainability in STEM Higher Education: Making Social Change Together

This paper examines the sustainability literacy of one pilot group of Science, Technology,Engineering, and Maths (STEM) students in one U.S. HE institution. Currently, the absence ofunderstanding how sustainability goals and challenges are related is missing from many HEprograms. Students took the sustainability literacy test (SULITEST) and showed mixed results inregards to their sustainability literacy. These initial results indicate that sustainability tenets arewell ingrained by the students, but not the application of sustainability to their lives. The resultspresented here provide a first indication of the gaps in sustainability education for STEMstudents in higher education.