Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 58.60
Liaison Elaine Durr
Submission Date Dec. 13, 2011
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Elon University
ER-14: Incentives for Developing Sustainability Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Janet MacFall
Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology
Chair of the Department of Environmental Studies
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Does the institution have a program that meets the criteria outlined above?:
Yes

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A brief description of the program(s):
Faculty may apply to be a part of the Sustainability Faculty Scholars Program. Faculty members identify a course that he/she would like to modify to include a sustainability component. Selected faculty members are provided with relevant sustainability resources and pedagogies. Faculty members modify selected courses accordingly and teach the course the next semester it is offered. The program has included participants from various disciplines including art, biology, business administration, business law, communications, computing sciences, engineering, English, exercise science, geography, health and human performance, history, leisure and sports management, physics and sociology.

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A brief description of the incentives that faculty members who participate in the program(s) receive:
Faculty selected for the program will receive a $1,000 stipend paid during the summer. Faculty members also receive training resources to help incorporate sustainability topics into the course.

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