Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 75.28
Liaison Yumiko Jakobcic
Submission Date March 3, 2023

STARS v2.2

Grand Valley State University
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Yumiko Jakobcic
Campus Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Sustainability Practices
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Does the institution have an ongoing program that offers incentives for academic staff in multiple disciplines or departments to develop new sustainability courses and/or incorporate sustainability into existing courses? :
Yes

A brief description of the incentive program(s):
The Grand Valley Faculty Teaching and Learning Center (FTLC) has offered a variety of opportunities which have supported sustainability course development activity.

A brief description of the incentives that academic staff who participate in the program(s) receive:
Faculty Learning Communities bring faculty together for a semester-long conversation on a certain topic; recent conversations have been about sustainability in the curriculum and publicly engaged scholarship.

Faculty Conference Travel Grants can support faculty to attend sustainability conferences.

Teaching Innovation Grants have been used to promote paperless classrooms and to provide tools for classes at the Sustainable Agriculture Project.

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Website URL where information about the incentives for developing sustainability course content is available:
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