Student Experience

You have decided to pursue a graduate degree. This is a big commitment and a giant step towards reaching your academic and career goals. Presidio Graduate School is looking for candidates that are a good fit for our community and demonstrate the ability to succeed as a sustainability professional beyond graduation. Passing this test requires …

Sustainability pioneers have long found the students and faculty of Presidio Graduate School a welcoming, vital community. In time for the first Residency of the new year, Gil Friend joins the community as the Expert in Residence (EIR) for Spring Semester 2019. EIRs provide students access to the latest sustainability thinking and advice on developing …

For the first time since Presidio Graduate School acquired Pinchot University, our San Francisco and Seattle campuses came together for a fun-filled, action-packed weekend with 40 students and alumni. The theme of integration traversed throughout all our activities and by the end of the weekend, we knew one another better, understood that we’re more powerful …

Presidio Graduate School Reached Over 100,000 Sustainability Consulting Hours in its 10-Year Experiential Learning Program This signature hands-on approach to teaching continues to deliver measurable triple-bottom-line results to organizations across the globe For more than 14 years, Presidio Graduate School has taught the foundations of sustainability in its classrooms and for the last 10 we have been …

 Dear Presidians: Happy New Year! I couldn’t be more excited to share with you today that you made it happen! Your generosity helped to propel PGS into 2018 with over $250,000 raised for our Renewal Project and the ongoing sustainability of our school. The year-end campaign, Renewing Our Shared Commitment, brought in over $125,000 in …

The purpose of the Sustainable Products and Services course is for students to create a business to practice the entrepreneurial process of innovation, development, and commercialization of new products or services. During our second San Francisco residency, Sustainable Products and Services students visited the Tech Shop and participated in a PGS tradition, the Egg Drop Challenge to …

Investing in Our Future: Experiential Learning with Alameda County By Sarah Lerhaupt It’s always a tense moment in class when students are preparing to select their Experiential Learning (EL) partners – a relationship that will define the semester. Each EL Partner comes to PGS with a sustainable management challenge that staff connects with course content. …

This summer, four Presidio Graduate School students embarked on a mission to drive energy and sustainability change in organizations across the country. Alex Grande, Anuraag Jhawar, Doug Perry, and Robert Bartolucci all served as fellows in Environmental Defense Fund’s prestigious EDF Climate Corps fellowship program. While their experiences differed in size and scope, they intersected …

Megan Morrice, C20 Leading Client and Partnership Development at HIP Investor HIP Investor is a global leader in impact investing, Megan has experienced firsthand the positive impact that companies have when investing where their mission lies. Megan’s experience includes working as a Financial Advisor for MetLife, a financial-services and insurance wholesaler for Leisure, Werden & …

In step with Earth Day and Fashion Revolution Week, a week-long campaign calling for greater transparency, sustainability and ethics in the fashion industry and commemorating the Rana Plaz factory collapse, where 1,138 people were killed and many more injured on April 24, 2013, the Sustainable Fashion Club hosted a clothing swap during San Francisco campus’s 4th …