Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.74
Liaison Tavey Capps
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2011
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Duke University
ER-14: Incentives for Developing Sustainability Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Tavey Capps
Environmental Sustainability Director
Office of the Executive Vice President
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Does the institution have a program that meets the criteria outlined above?:
Yes

A brief description of the program(s):

Duke’s Leadership for Sustainability and Curriculum faculty development workshop began in 2010 and offered 9 Duke faculty an intensive two days of presentations, exercises, discussions, planning and reflection on new teaching methods, interdisciplinary connections, opportunities for students’ civic engagement, and their own roles as campus leaders. Another Sustainability and Curriculum Workshop will be held in May 2011 to further develop a Learning Community for Sustainability at Duke, providing $500 stipends and support from the Center for Instructional Technology for roughly 10 faculty participants to collaborate on developing and revising courses to include concepts of sustainability.


A brief description of the incentives that faculty members who participate in the program(s) receive:

In 2011, faculty participants in Duke’s Sustainability and Curriculum workshop will receive a stipend of $500 and support from the Center for Instructional Technology.


The website URL where information about the program is available:
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