Sustainability Across the Curriculum Leadership Workshop

Posted by on April 21, 2006

Sustainability Across the Curriculum Leadership Workshop

Building on the successful “Infusing Sustainability into the Curriculum” workshop held in January 2006 at Emory University, AASHE, the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education, is again joining with Geoffrey Chase of San Diego State University and Peggy Barlett of Emory University to invite faculty of all disciplines to San Diego, CA for a two-day “train the trainer” workshop on curriculum change to take place July 20-21 (Thurs-Fri), 2006.

Participants will meet with other faculty and resource experts and explore strategies to infuse sustainability throughout the curriculum: in general education or upper division courses, in courses for the major or minor, or in a graduation requirement. The model developed for the Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University and adapted at Emory in the Piedmont Project will be taught so that participants can bring it to their own campuses.

The workshop will focus on systemic change, not individual course development. It is designed for faculty who wish to help their campuses develop programs like the Ponderosa or Piedmont Projects and reorient campus-wide curriculum around sustainability. Activities will include small group discussions, brief talks by resource experts, outdoor place-based activities, and exercises to build strategies for future action. The workshop will specifically address interdisciplinary approaches to sustainability across the curriculum and student learning outcomes and assessment. Participants will be introduced to a variety of strategies for institutional change toward sustainability and will reflect together on what might be useful for their own campuses.

The workshop leaders, Peggy Barlett and Geoffrey Chase, are editors of Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change, published by MIT Press in 2004. Peggy and Geoff have many years of experience leading these kinds of workshops and have helped more than 200 faculty on several campuses revise courses in a wide array of disciplines.

Workshop tuition is $350 for AASHE members and $390 for non-members. Tuition will cover snacks and lunches on both days, handouts, materials, and a wine reception late Thursday afternoon. We are holding a block of rooms at the Best Western Hacienda Hotel in the center of Old Town San Diego. These rooms will cost $139/night. The workshop will be held on the San Diego State University campus in the historic Scripps Cottage. Participants will be able to take the San Diego Trolley from nearby the hotel to the campus.

Applications are due by May 15, 2006 and are available at: http://www.aashe.org/profdev/curriculum_leadership_jul06.php

Julian Dautremont-Smith
Associate Director
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
(971) 544-1755
julian@aashe.org