Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.20
Liaison Josh Lasky
Submission Date May 14, 2014
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George Washington University
ER-14: Incentives for Developing Sustainability Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Lisa Benton-Short
Director of the Sustainability Academic Program
Department of Geography
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Does the institution have a program that meets the criteria outlined above?:
Yes

A brief description of the program(s):

The GW Institute for Sustainability offers up to 5-6 Support Grants for Developing or Revising Courses to Meet the GreenLeaf Designation. These grants are available to fund faculty as they undertake syllabus revision to undergraduate courses or design new courses that meet “green leaf” designation.


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

Funding of $2,500 for individual faculty; additional funds are available for faculty teams. Funds can be used for activities such as paying individual faculty members to design or revise their syllabi; hosting workshops for teams of faculty teaching sections of a course where they can collaborate on assignments and assessment; consulting with experts in the discipline who have designed innovative assignments and assessment techniques for introductory courses; and other helpful activities.


The website URL where information about the program is available:
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