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Advancing ESD Curriculum Development & Faculty Development through a Consortium Approach
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Ramapo College of New Jersey (NJ)
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
- Green Whys Consulting (TX)
At AASHE 2015, we convened a dialogue to identify sustainability educators' challenges and recommendations to address critical needs. That successful workshop informed the launch of the Sustainability Curriculum Consortium. At ...
- 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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The New Eco-Rep Model: Unifying Campus Audiences in Co-Curricular Sustainability Programming
- Dickinson College (PA)
Dickinson College has innovatively reformed its Eco-Rep model into a combined student and employee peer-to-peer sustainability education program that creates co-curricular learning experiences aimed at unifying campus stakeholders while increasing ...
- Posted May 19, 2017
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NCSU Initiatives for Faculty Participation in Sustainability Efforts
- North Carolina State University (NC)
This project seeks to understand the perspectives of faculty members as it relates to sustainability at North Carolina State University. Specifically, an online survey of randomly selected 500 faculty was ...
- Posted May 11, 2017
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"Staffulty”: When Sustainability Staff Take on Faculty Roles
- Rice University (TX)
- Attendees will develop a rich understanding of the “staffulty” position.
- Attendees will learn the variety of ways that sustainability staff can engage with what is traditionally the faculty realm, including ...
- Posted April 25, 2017
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Honored Members of the Sustainability Community
- Indiana State University (IN)
Our student, faculty, and staff award winners! From left to right: Ivy Coble, Dara Middleton, Dr. Joy O'Keefe, and Dr. Jim Speer
These four people have worked so diligently ...
- Posted April 25, 2017
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AAUP 2016-17 Faculty Compensation Survey Report
Between the 2015–16 and 2016–17 academic years, average salaries for full-time ranked faculty members (assistant, associate, and full professors) increased by 0.5 percent after adjusting for inflation ...
- Posted April 20, 2017
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Towards an engaged campus: Measuring and comparing definitive stakeholders’ perceptions of university social engagement in South Korea
Purpose - This paper aims to measure and rigorously compare the perceptions of South Korean university social engagement between faculty and students, two definitive stakeholders identified by stakeholder theory – but considerably ...
- Posted Feb. 13, 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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New Directions for Curriculum Development and Faculty Development through a Consortium Approach
- Sustainability Curriculum Consortium (MD)
At AASHE 2015, the presenters convened an interactive dialogue designed to identify the significant challenges facing sustainability educators in higher education and their recommendations to address their most critical needs ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 2016
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Teaching sustainability as an interdisciplinary subject: An effective model
- George Mason University (VA)
Sustainability is not a scientific issue or an environmental issue. It presents enormous challenges to human and natural systems and entails political, economic, legal, and ethical dimensions. Instructors who teach ...
- Posted Nov. 18, 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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Well-Being and Higher Education: A Strategy for Change and the Realization of Education's Greater Purposes
- Association of American Colleges and Universities (DC)
The newest release from Bringing Theory to Practice, Well-Being and Higher Education, explores the multiple connections of well-being to higher education and why those connections matter—for the individual lives ...
- Posted Oct. 6, 2016
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Integrating sustainability across the university curriculum
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
Purpose
Colleges and universities increasingly have the mandate and motivation to integrate sustainability into their curricula. The purpose of this paper is to share the strategy used at the University ...
- Posted Sept. 12, 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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Academic staff engagement in education for sustainable development
- University of Southampton
The research presented in this paper emerged from the need to identify the factors influencing academic staff members when engaging in Education for Sustainable Development in real practice. The aims ...
- Posted June 10, 2016
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Implementation of sustainability in universities as perceived by faculty and staff – a model from a Swedish university
Education for sustainable development creates new challenges for universities where faculty and staff are expected to prepare students to meet complexities in society and take responsibility for sustainability, which scientists ...
- Posted June 10, 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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Field Guide to Teaching Sustainability
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
Penn State’s Field Guide to Teaching Sustainability is for sustainability education what the Peterson guides are for birds, trees, or wildflowers. We have designed it to help our faculty ...
- Posted May 24, 2016
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Business pedagogy for social justice? An exploratory investigation of business faculty perspectives of social justice in business education
- York University
What needs to happen in business schools to create a space for social justice? In this article I explore business faculty members’ perspectives on social justice as a means of ...
- Posted May 10, 2016
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A Methodology for Building Faculty Support for the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education
- Kennesaw State University (GA)
Evidence from extant literature indicates that faculty support is a critical driver for implementing the United Nations Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME), particularly for schools pursuing an advanced, cross-disciplinary ...
- Posted May 10, 2016
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Academic mobility in the Anthropocene era: a comparative study of university policy at three New Zealand institutions
- University of Otago (Otago)
- University of Auckland
Anthropogenic climate change is a wicked problem, requiring fundamental behavioural and technological responses now, in the Anthropocene, a term denoting the current era of human dominance of biological, chemical and ...
- Posted May 9, 2016
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Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business As Usual
- EcoChallenge.org (OR)
Northwest Earth Institute's newest discussion-based course book, Sustainability Works: Rethinking Business as Usual, offers sustainability staff a ready-made employee engagement process designed to inspire green teams and employee teams ...
- Posted April 29, 2016
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Academic Freedom in the 21st-Century College and University: Academic Freedom for All Faculty and Instructional Staff
This statement by the American Federation of Teachers responds to ongoing political attacks on higher education faculty and staff as well as the increasing reliance on contingent faculty who have ...
- Posted March 12, 2016
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Fairness & Equity: Standards of Good Practice in the Employment of Part-Time/Adjunct Faculty
American Federation of Teachers' quality standards for the employment of part-time/adjunct faculty in colleges and universities. The report outlines a coordinated program to improve the financial and professional circumstances ...
- Posted March 12, 2016
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There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts
Students are paying higher tuition than ever. Why can’t more of that revenue go to the people teaching them?
- Posted March 12, 2016
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Con Job: Stories of Adjunct & Contingent Labor
- The College of Saint Rose (NY)
- Posted March 12, 2016
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Indispensable But Invisible: A Report on the Working Climate of Non-Tenure Track Faculty at George Mason University
- George Mason University (VA)
According to institutional data, during the 2012-2013 academic year, adjunct and other
contingent faculty made up 71 percent of the total faculty at George Mason University. Like
contingent faculty at ...
- Posted March 11, 2016
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Reclaiming the Ivory Tower: Organizing Adjuncts to Change Higher Education
In the last twenty years, higher education in the United States has been eroded by massive reliance on temporary academic labor—professors without tenure or the prospect of tenure, paid ...
- Posted March 11, 2016
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The Politics of Contingent Academic Labor
- American University (DC)
The alarming stories from adjunct faculty, who now comprise a majority of higher-education teachers nationally, share troubling commonalities. The frustrations are financial, personal, and professional. In decades past, most adjunct ...
- Posted March 11, 2016
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Transforming Sustainability Education through Mindfulness, Movement, and Creativity
- Portland State University (OR)
This workshop will share how we have implemented contemplative practices (including meditation/mindfulness, body movement, visualization, and creativity) within student sustainability leadership programs. In addition, the session will be experiential ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Watershed UGA; A living laboratory transforming campus and community through teaching, research and service.
- University of Georgia (GA)
This case study will introduce a new initiative at the University of Georgia, Watershed UGA, designed to engage the campus community in sustainability through campus watersheds. This transformative university-wide model ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Across the Curriculum: Fostering Enthusiasm by Making it Real for Faculty and Students!
- Fleming College (ON)
Is adding sustainability to the curriculum new work for faculty? This case study will demonstrate how we discovered that many sustainability elements are already being brought into the classroom – sometimes ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Using Case Studies and Case-based Instruction to Teach Sustainability
- Colorado State University (CO)
Complexity is reality-in the world, in our communities, relationships, and our classrooms-and even more so when emotions run high. Mention climate change or use the adjective 'green' to describe a ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Generating Hope and Agency in Education for Sustainability Through Communities of Praxis
- Manhattanville College (NY)
Recently, the Journal for Sustainability Education has called for research on education practices that generate hope and agency in our students and work against hopelessness. Dr. Tina Evans reminds us ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Education: A Pedagogy of Complexity
- Ohio University (OH)
College graduates entering the work force increasingly are confronted with 'wicked' sustainability issues regardless of profession. In response, models of instruction that transcend disciplinary boundaries are emerging in higher education ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Sustainability Blitz for a Rapid Diffusion Across the Curriculum
- Skyline College (CA)
- Strategic Energy Innovations (CA)
The time is now for addressing sustainability education across the curriculum. While there remain plenty of barriers to doing so – overburdened faculty, lack of interdisciplinary coordination, misaligned incentive structures – there ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Re-thinking Options for Curriculum and Faculty Development: How will we take it to the next level?
- Antioch University, New England (NH)
- University of Florida (FL)
- University of Pennsylvania (PA)
The three organizers/presenters are university faculty and staff who have functional roles as researcher, sustainability director and sustainability practitioner. Coming from diverse institutions and disciplinary backgrounds, each organizer/presenter ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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CLICS: Using Cyber-infrastructure to Bring Data from Campus Sustainability Efforts into the Classroom
- Clarkson University (NY)
CLICS (Cyber-Learning Infrastructure for Campus Sustainability) is a cyber-learning tool developed to transform data from campus sustainability projects in a way that can be used in a wide variety of ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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UCLA Action Research Teams: student-staff-faculty collaborative research on campus sustainability
- University of California, Los Angeles (CA)
The UCLA Action Research Team (ART) program is part of the student-led Education for Sustainable Living Program offered for credit through the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. The ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching and Learning Sustainable Chemistry K-16: From Classroom Application and Analysis to Assessment and Refinement
- Colorado State University (CO)
This presentation explores aspects of 'sustainable chemistry.' The research assesses the challenges of 'teaching sustainable chemistry' in K-16 classrooms through an experimental course, CHEM/EDUC580 at Colorado State University with ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Collaborative Teaching Approach: Mindful Writing and Drawing to Understand Culture & Place Based Identity
- Colorado Mountain College (CO)
This interactive session focuses on best practices in collaborative teaching and learning, specifically directed at the melding of writing and drawing as processes of discovery in culture and place- based ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Getting everyone on board with carbon neutrality: UC system best practices for faculty, student, and staff engagement
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of California, Santa Barbara (CA)
- University of California, Berkeley (CA)
In 2014, University of California President Janet Napolitano announced the Carbon Neutrality Initiative, committing UC to achieve carbon neutrality by 2025. President Napolitano formed a Global Climate Leadership Council to ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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A Better Business Building' - Penn State and Leonardo Academy Connect Students, Faculty, and Facilities through LEED for Existing Buildings and LEED Campus
- Pennsylvania State University (PA)
- Leonardo Academy (WI)
Learn how students, faculty, and facility management staff worked together to transform the sustainability of the Smeal Business Building at Penn State through LEED-EBOM. The project served as a model ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching Sustainability In Place: A Workshop and Field Experience at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities's Cedar Creek Ecosystem Reserve
- University of Minnesota, Twin Cities (MN)
- Will Steger Foundation (MN)
Since an understanding of ecology underlies any notion of sustainability, teaching about sustainability means teaching fundamental ecology. Sustainability envisions a system in which humanity and nature are inextricably and forever ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Teaching Sustainability as a Philosophical Concept
- Bemidji State University (MN)
We address teaching sustainability primarily as a philosophical rather than scientific idea. We propose to relate our experience as part of an interdisciplinary team of faculty leading a course titled ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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Cooperative Education: Promoting Sustainability in Procurement & Education
- Portland Community College (OR)
This presentation will share highlights from projects which seek to support instructors in the development and implementation of sustainability curriculum thereby increasing student engagement and improving their knowledge, skills and ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 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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Guide on the Side' instead of a 'Sage on the Stage': Facilitating Innovative Student-Led Sustainability Discussions
- Bowling Green State University (OH)
In this Round Table presentation I will highlight an approach that I utilize to facilitate discussions associated with assigned sustainability-related reading material in university-level sustainability courses. The approaches that I ...
- Posted Feb. 26, 2016
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