Sustainability in the Curriculum:
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Program Overview
Increasingly, colleges and universities are updating their academic curriculum with topics on sustainability—and this goes beyond building courses on sustainability—they are infusing sustainability topics into their entire academic curriculum across all disciplines. In some cases, course work in sustainability topics has become an academic requirement.
What does this mean for higher education institutions, and what are the considerations and implications as these decisions are being made? This important webcast will look at how colleges and universities are approaching the challenge of building sustainability into the curriculum, and will provide rich examples of the unique ways this is being done.
Colleges and universities teach millions of students each year, and the decisions that students make as consumers, investors, and community members effect people around the world every day. These future citizens will play a critical role in handling complex social issues and providing stewardship of fragile environmental resources.
Education for sustainable development means incorporating environmental, social, and economic problems and solutions throughout the academic curriculum, so that students' understanding of these topics grows with the understanding of their course work and profession.
The US, with approximately 5 percent of the world's population, is consuming about 25 percent of the world's resources. Becoming aware of how we use resources can lead to creating healthier ecosystems, communities, and stronger economies.
This webcast will address the implications of building sustainability into a college or university curriculum. Presenters will outline a framework on how to approach sustainability, and will spark ideas about how you can approach building sustainability into the curriculum at your institution.
Learning Discussion Points
- How to infuse sustainable development concepts in different disciplines
- Real life change strategies that have worked at institutions around the country
- Integrating campus practice with the curriculum
- Innovative approaches colleges and universities have taken to build sustainability in their student curriculum
- How to build support for the need for curricular change
During the broadcast, there will be opportunities for live question and answers, as well as polling questions. Handouts for the broadcast will include an extensive list of resources and web links.
Who Should Listen?
This webcast will be of interest to- Provosts
- Faculty
- Academic administrators
- Student life coordinators
- Campus architects
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Presenters
Geoffrey W. Chase has been the dean of undergraduate studies at San Diego State University since January, 2002, following nine years at Northern Arizona University, where he re-designed the composition curriculum to give it an environmental focus. He also became a leader of the Ponderosa Project, a faculty development project aimed at helping faculty from throughout the university integrate issues of environmental sustainability into their courses. While at Northern Arizona University, he also served as English Department Chair, Dean of Liberal Studies, and Associate Provost for Undergraduate Studies. He received his Ph.D in American literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1981, and taught for 11 years in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Miami University of Ohio. He has been a Fulbright Scholar in Turku, Finland and, recently, co-authored Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change, which was released by MIT Press in May, 2004.
Debra Rowe has been professor of renewable energies and energy management for over 20 years at Oakland Community College. She won the State and Regional Professional Development Award from the Association of Energy Engineers (www.aeecenter.org) for the curricula of the Environmental Systems Technology program. As a consultant to a national consortium of community colleges entitled PETE (the Partnership for Environmental Technology Education), she created a model energy management degree design for community colleges, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Debra is the energy and sustainability consultant to the National Science Foundation funded National Science Database Library. She received her Ph.D. in business from the School of Business Administration at the University of Michigan, and is the author and editor of numerous publications on the integration of sustainability into education. She is a Senior Fellow in Education for Sustainability with the Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future, where she works with higher education associations and K–12 associations on the integration of the sustainability paradigm into all levels of formal education.
Terry Link is director of the Office of Campus Sustainability at Michigan State University. An academic librarian for more than 25 tears he founded and led the Task Force on the Environment of the American Library Association. He has written, taught, and spoke about environmental and sustainability issues for more than 20 years. He sits on the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality Environmental Advisory Council, and serves on the boards of the Central Michigan Sustainable Business Forum, Greater Laingsburg Recyclers, and Urban Options, as president.
Peggy F. Barlett is professor in the Department of Anthropology at Emory University. A cultural anthropologist specializing in agricultural systems and sustainable development, Peggy carried out fieldwork in economic anthropology in Ecuador, Costa Rica, and rural Georgia (USA). Recently, interests in the challenge of sustainability in urban Atlanta have given her an opportunity to combine anthropology with interests in political economy, cultural change, and local food systems. As part of a growing faculty and staff group concerned about sustainability at Emory, she has focused on expanding awareness of environmental issues through curriculum development (the Piedmont Project), campus policies, and connections to place. She is editor of Urban Place: Reconnecting with the Natural World, due out Fall, 2005 (MIT Press) and is co-editor with Geoffrey Chase of Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change (MIT Press, 2004). Currently, she is working with colleagues at the University of Georgia and Drake University to foster dialogue around a strengthened local food system for Atlanta. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology at Columbia University.
Dick Rittelmann is the chairman of Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates, and has been committed to the development of energy conscious and sustainable designs since the early 1970s. He attends and presents at the annual USGBC conference. He was particularly active with the U.S. Government and various national laboratories in the development of national programs for research in energy. He participated quite frequently with the Energy and Research Development Administration, and later the Department of Energy in developing national research agendas. He has served as one of the U.S. Representatives to the International Energy Agency associated with research in low-energy buildings and alternate energy systems. He currently serves on the Board of Noisette Corporation, which is undertaking the largest sustainable land development project in the U.S. at North Charleston, S.C. He is a Fellow with American Institute of Architects (FAIA), and has started a for-credit program at Hartwick College to take students through the process of the construction of a new sustainable facility on the campus.
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SCUP is a registered provider of continuing education units for the American Institute of Architects. If you are eligible to earn continuing education units from AIA, sign the AIA report form that will be sent to each listening site in advance of the program, and fax it back to the SCUP office. SCUP will submit completed session forms to AIA for you. This webcast offers 1½ hours of continuing education units. Anyone attending the broadcast may request a certificate as a record of his or her attendance. Questions? Please contact Kathy Benton, profdev@scup.org, or call 734.998.6966.