Rick Clugston is Executive Director of ULSF and the Center for Respect of Life and Environment, and publisher and editor of Earth Ethics. The Center focuses on: 1) greening higher education and religion, 2) fostering earth ethics as a foundation of a just and sustainable future, 3) promoting sustainable livelihoods, and 4) publishing Earth Ethics, an award-winning quarterly journal.

Prior to coming to Washington, Dr. Clugston worked for the University of Minnesota for 11 years, first as a faculty member in the College of Human Ecology, and later as a strategic planner in Academic Affairs, Continuing Education and the Office of the President. He was a consultant to the State Department of Education, the Minnesota Business Partnership, and various colleges and school systems on educational improvement. Dr. Clugston has taught and published on human development, strategic planning, educational reform, and most recently on environmental ethics, spirituality and sustainability.

He received his doctorate in Higher Education from the University of Minnesota (1987), and his masters in Human Development from the University of Chicago (1977). As an undergraduate psychology and biochemistry major at the University of Minnesota (1975), he received the Mayo Foundation Scholarship for Medicine and Medicine Related Fields. His doctoral thesis was selected as dissertation of the year by the American Association of University Administrators.

Selected recent publications include:

• Clugston, R. "Transforming Higher Education to Care for Creation," in R. Peterson and D. Conroy (Eds.), Creation as Beloved by God, Atlantic Highlands,NJ: Humanities Press, forthcoming.
  
• Clugston, R., and J. Hoyt. "Environment, Development and Moral Values," in C. J. Hamelink (Ed.), Ethics and Development: On Making Moral Choices in Development Co- operation, Kampen, Holland: Uitgeverij Kok, 1997.
  
• Clugston, R. "Sustainability and Rural Revitalization: Two Alternative Visions," in I. Audirac (Ed.), Rural Sustainable Development in America, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1997.
  
• Clugston, R. "The Praxis of Institutional Greening," in D.T. Hessel (Ed.), Theology for Earth Community: A Field Guide, Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996.
  
• Clugston, R. "Higher Education's Ecological Mission," in Education for the Earth: The College Guide for Careers in the Environment, 2nd Ed., Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides, Inc., 1995.