The Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME) is a United Nations-supported initiative founded in 2007 that aims to raise the profile of sustainability in business and management education through Seven Principles focused on serving society and safeguarding our planet.

PRME engages business and management schools to ensure they provide future leaders with the skills needed to balance economic, environmental, and social goals, while drawing attention to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and aligning academic institutions with the work of the UN Global Compact. Driven by its mission to transform management education, PRME equips today's business students with the understanding and ability to deliver change tomorrow.

The UConn School of Business recently joined the Global Business School Network (GBSN). The GBSN enables business schools to profoundly impact sustainable development worldwide--through education, research, and community engagement. This is a remarkable membership for the School of Business with many ways for students and faculty to engage and benefit from the network's international resources.



Students are welcomed to create their own accounts. Once you do, you will have access to many opportunities including the Virtual Career platform where you can search for internships, jobs, and professional development opportunities.

The Environmental Corps (E-Corps) is "an approach to Life Transformative Education," combining students' learning about environmental topics in the classroom with practical, hands-on experience with various projects in different communities. Each E-Corps course spans two semesters; the first is spent in the classroom, and the second is spent completing the community-based projects. Currently, there are three focus areas: brownfields development, climate resilience, and stormwater management. Projects include Climate Vulnerability Assessments, Climate Communication Strategies, Stormwater Retrofit Plans, and more. The three different focus areas are:

• Brownfield Corps focuses on challenges and opportunities in remediating and redeveloping contaminated sites; instruction led by the Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering. According to the Connecticut law, a brownfield is "any abandoned or underutilized site where redevelopment, reuse, or expansion has not occurred due to the presence or potential presence of pollution in the buildings, soil, or groundwater that requires investigation or remediation before or in conjunction with the redevelopment, reuse, or expansion of the property." Projects include data gap analysis, redevelopment options, brownfield inventory, and more.

• Climate Corps focuses on local impacts of climate change and the opportunity to implement resilience strategies; instruction led by the Dept. of Extension. The course focuses on service learning and work force development in the realm of climate change at the local level. Students work with municipalities or other organizations to work on a climate adaptation project.

• Stormwater Corps focuses on flooding and pollution caused by stormwater runoff and how to implement low impact development (LID) options to reduce such impacts; instruction is led by the Dept. of Extension. Learn more about LID here. Students work with communities to develop green stormwater retrofit analyses, demonstrating how best to implement such practices into the community. Stormwater Corps also includes a Summer Corps program which acts as a summer job for undergraduates to perform the same analyses.

Interested in becoming a leader in responsible business? Broaden your experience with faculty internationally recognized for their expertise in human rights and sustainability. Highlights of the Social Responsibility and Impact in Business minor include:

• Study of foundational topics in responsible business including corporate social impact, responsibility and accountability, evolving expectations of business organizations, legal and market-based drivers of corporate sustainability, and global and local business solutions to societal challenges.
• Analysis of law, policy, and business practice through discussions, debates, and case studies.
• An emphasis on developing critical thinking skills to analyze and address societal challenges.