| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 75.28 |
| Liaison | Yumiko Jakobcic |
| Submission Date | March 3, 2023 |
Grand Valley State University
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Yumiko
Jakobcic Campus Sustainability Coordinator Office of Sustainability Practices |
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? :
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.
Website URL where information about the incentives for developing sustainability course content is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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