WOHESC Call for Proposals Deadline

About the event

The Washington Oregon Higher Education Sustainability Conference (WOHESC) is coming up March 3-5, 2027.

The Future Starts Now: From Action to Sustainable Impact

The future begins with the actions we make today. Across higher education, campuses and communities are moving beyond planning and into action. From climate resilience and decarbonization to student engagement and institutional transformation, meaningful progress happens when ideas become practical solutions.

WOHESC 2027 invites participants to share the tools, strategies, and collaborations that are making a measurable impact today. Together, we’ll explore how community-driven action, innovative partnerships, and leadership can help navigate uncertainty while building more future-focused, resilient communities.

Find more information on the program proposals and how to submit HERE.

Find details on the proposal timeline HERE.

Proposal Selection Criteria

Measurable Impact Your proposal should demonstrate a clear, trackable, and significant change or result that can be quantified using numbers, data, or specific metrics. It proves that an action or project made a real difference rather than just completing a task.

Actionable and Transferable We want attendees to leave sessions with a skill they can put to use, a project they can implement, or new knowledge of a subject to take back to their own work. Meaningful and actionable learning objectives and ideas that transfer between institutions and organizations will increase likelihood of selection for inclusion in the conference program.

Creativity of Subject Matter. We are interested in creative problem solving that goes beyond what has been tried before; that will inspire action and thinking outside the box. We are particularly looking for innovative proposals that will inspire solution-building in conference sessions.

Connectivity. We seek proposals that link faculty and curriculum development activities, campus operations, research, student affairs, and student initiatives. This event aspires to bring stakeholders together from separate divisions of institutions to create collaboration and to break-down traditional silos.

Quality. We are looking for high quality session abstracts that describe how the proposal will convey a clearly articulated subject and objective. We are dedicated to ensuring the presentations at our conference meet the high standards of the academic institutions that host the conference.