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Escaping the Silos and Generating Collaborations: A Sustainable Faculty Development Program
- Furman University (SC)
The Faculty Affiliates Program gives faculty from all departments on our campus opportunities to meet monthly during the academic year to share ideas, generate resources and foster interdisciplinary connections throughout ...
- Posted Nov. 5, 2018
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Equity-Minded Faculty Development: An Intersectional Identity-Conscious Community of Practice Model for Faculty Learning
- California State University, San Bernardino (CA)
Equity-minded institutional transformation requires robust faculty learning. Research has shown that the single most important factor in student success is faculty interaction. Positive, supportive, and empowering faculty interaction is particularly ...
- Posted May 8, 2018
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Effects on Associate Faculty Engagement through Initiating PLCs
- Ashford University (IA)
Professional Learning Communities (PLCs) are created when groups of teaching professionals meet to achieve together what they cannot achieve individually. However, in our ever changing educational environment, we must consider ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Faculty Learning Communities for Sustainability
- Oregon State University (OR)
- State University of New York at New Paltz (NY)
In this session, State University of New York at New Paltz (SUNY NP) and Oregon State University (OSU) will share their unique sustainability learning community designs as well as successes ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Supporting Students' Sustainability Learning and Emotional Resilience with Reflection and Contemplation
- Peninsula College (WA)
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
- Western Washington University (WA)
How do we foster the cognitive complexity, ethical development, and personal resolve required for this 'sustainability century?' Tackling complex, systemic problems requires nuanced interdisciplinary understandings and the ability to engage ...
- Posted Dec. 1, 2017
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Incorporating Sustainability Content and Pedagogy Through Faculty Development
- James Madison University (VA)
The new Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum increase the availability of faculty development opportunities related to sustainability. Faculty and administrators considering professional development and subsequently design/redesign of courses ...
- Posted May 22, 2017
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Curricular Innovation for Sustainability: The Piedmont/ Ponderosa Model of Faculty Development
- Emory University (GA)
- Northern Arizona University (AZ)
Curricular innovation is at the center of the challenges many colleges and universities face as they seek to help students address more successfully than previous generations the complex, multi-faceted, systemic ...
- Posted Dec. 12, 2016
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The Piedmont Project: Fostering Faculty Development Toward Sustainability
- Emory University (GA)
Many universities recognize urgent environmental dilemmas and embrace efforts to move campus operations and university culture toward sustainability. However, the broader academic mission across departments and programs is often slower ...
- Posted Nov. 9, 2016
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Long-Term Impacts of Faculty Development Programs: The Experience of Teli and Piedmont
- Emory University (GA)
- Tufts University (MA)
A long-term study of two faculty development programs on sustainability and the environment reveals enduring changes in teaching, research, interdisciplinary collaboration, and engaged action. Participants in cohorts of Tufts University ...
- Posted Nov. 9, 2016
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Enhancing sustainability curricula through faculty learning communities
- University of Vermont (VT)
Purpose
Although the number of higher education institutions adopting sustainability-focused faculty learning communities (FLCs) has grown, very few of these programs have published evaluation research. This paper aims to report ...
- Posted July 18, 2016
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Project Sin Fronteras
- University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (TX)
Project Sin Fronteras is a project without borders, crossing institutional boundaries, and transforming sustainability concepts and practices into enriched curriculum and research. It provides a two-pronged approach to education for ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Weaving Sustainability into Curricula across Disciplines: Challenges and Successes from the Green Threads Faculty Workshop
- University of Louisville (KY)
How does a large research institution that offers nearly 200 different majors across the undergraduate- and graduate levels integrate sustainability into its many disciplines? Since 2009, the University of Louisville ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A New Approach to Sustainability Across the Curriculum
- Santa Clara University (CA)
Santa Clara University has participated in AASHE's Sustainability Across the Curriculum approach since 2007. Over 100 faculty members have participated in peer-led workshops over the years, known as the ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Assessing the impact of sustainability faculty learning communities
- University of Vermont (VT)
What are the necessary elements to create institutional change through infusing sustainability into the curriculum at a university of wide scope and scale? The University of Vermont (UVM) Sustainability Faculty ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching Sustainability & Fostering Change at Vanderbilt University
- Vanderbilt University (TN)
Sustainability is the most pressing educational issue of the twenty-first century. In a crisis prone world of limited resources and rapid change, colleges and universities play a vital role in ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Synergy in a Faculty Learning Community: Sustainability & Pedagogy at Cal State East Bay
- California State University, East Bay (CA)
Having joined AASHE in fall 2011, Cal State East Bay established its first Faculty Learning Community (FLC) to focus on Sustainability & Pedagogy during the winter and spring quarters of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Graduate student workshop on sustainability across the curriculum
- University of Florida (FL)
Based on the Ponderosa and Piedmont Projects the first Prairie Project workshop was held in the summer of 2010. This two-day workshop drew together thirty faculty members from diverse fields ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Change
- Auburn University (AL)
- Emory University (GA)
- St. Olaf College (MN)
- San Diego State University (CA)
- Santa Clara University (CA)
Curriculum change is one of the key components for helping colleges and universities create a more sustainable future. And yet, curriculum change remains challenging precisely because the curriculum is not ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Big Ideas and Faculty Learning Communities: A Strategy for Integrating Sustainability across the Curriculum
- Peninsula College (WA)
- Seattle University (WA)
- Evergreen State College, The (WA)
- University of Puget Sound (WA)
If sustainability perspectives and practices are to become part of college graduates' thinking, they must start appearing across the curriculum in ways that are meaningful for students. In the Puget ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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The FLC-SHE: A Transdisciplinary Faculty Learning Community on Sustainability in Higher Education
- Western Carolina University (NC)
In 2007, an ad hoc Campus Sustainability task force at Western Carolina University was regenerated as a Faculty Learning Community (FLC), with a focus on integrating sustainability in the WCU ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Foothill College Sustainable Learning Community
- Foothill College (CA)
As part of the President's Climate Commitment, the incorporation of sustainability into the general curriculum was identified as a campus goal. The Sustainable Learning Community project is not only ...
- Posted May 9, 2013
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Sustainability Education Across the Province (SEAP): Faculty Train the Trainer Workshop at Simon Fraser University
- Simon Fraser University (BC)
This project's purpose was to train faculty members from across British Columbia, Canada to be sustainability education trainers. The workshop enabled them to not only integrate sustainability into their ...
- Posted June 9, 2010
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