In 2015, the United Nations adopted the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a series of ambitious and interconnected global targets to end poverty and hunger, advance education, protect the planet, and ensure prosperity by 2030 through peace, justice and partnerships. While the SDGs were designed for nation-states, colleges and universities are increasingly seeking to orient their sustainability efforts toward the SDGs. However, there is currently no standardized methodology that institutions can use to report on their contribution to the SDGs. Further, many institutions already feel overburdened with existing reporting requirements. This guide demonstrates that the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS®) - a transparent, self-reporting framework already used by hundreds of colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance - has strong potential to address these challenges. Among other things, it offers: a broadly applicable and comprehensive scope, a transparent methodology, participatory governance processes, an online reporting system with public reports, and a large base of institutions that are already using STARS to report on their sustainability performance. Furthermore, this guide maps the linkages between each SDG and individual STARS credits and demonstrates that STARS captures many of the main ways that higher education institutions can contribute to the SDGs.