Calling all faculty interested in exploring how they might modify existing courses or create new courses to have a focus on sustainability. This session will introduce Dr. Grace Wang, a consultant from AASHE (the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) who is a specialist in training faculty in the art of developing sustainability-focused courses in any and all academic disciplines. She will explain her methods and initiate conversations leading to how you might conceive of sustainability issues to include within your own discipline-specific courses.

Following this session, you will be invited to join a series of three one-hour workshops led by Dr. Wang during academic 2023-24, and a culminating day-and-a-half workshop during the “dead week” after spring finals. In these workshops, Dr. Wang will guide you through developing your own new course, or revising an existing course, to have a sustainability focus while still fulfilling your regular disciplinary teaching obligations. The workshops will include ample time for brainstorming and sharing ideas with your colleagues who are also participating.

Course development grants of up to $6,000 will be available for salary and/or materials as you work through the final details of your new or revised course over Summer 2024, in anticipation of offering the course in academic 2024-25.

Every discipline has something important to offer as we face issues in sustainability and, especially, climate change. With the methods you will learn in this series of workshops, you will be empowering your students to be part of the solutions.

If you’d like to be part of this, please express your interest here. Filling out this form will give you access to a recording and slide deck from the introductory session held last week, a link to an application for participating going forward and/or applying for grant funding, and put you on our email list for future communications.

If you choose to participate in the full program, the follow-on developmental workshops will be held:

Friday, Nov 10, 2024,12-1 PM

Friday, Feb 23, 2024,12-1 PM

Friday, April 12, 2024,12-1 PM

Tues, May 14, 9 AM-4 PM and Weds, May 15, 9 AM-12 PM

If you have any questions about the content or intent of these workshops, please feel free to contact the Director of the Sustainabilty Minor, Phil Sakimoto (psakimot@nd.edu), or for questions about logistics, Program Coordinator Gabrielle Cretcher (gcretche@nd.edu).

We hope to see you there!