| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 68.23 |
| Liaison | Merry Rankin |
| Submission Date | Sept. 1, 2016 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Iowa State University
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Merry
Rankin ISU Director of Sustainability Facilities Planning & Management |
Does the institution have an ongoing program or programs that offer incentives for faculty in multiple disciplines or departments to develop new sustainability courses and/or incorporate sustainability into existing courses?:
A brief description of the program(s), including positive outcomes during the previous three years (e.g. descriptions of new courses or course content resulting from the program):
The Tall Grass Prairie Project, modeled after the nationally renowned Ponderosa and Piedmont Projects promoted by the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), started officially at ISU in spring 2012. The project is aimed at seeding change that will be followed by curricular reform by engaging students involved in reformed courses in sustainability across disciplines and the curriculum. Our goal is to involve up to 22% of ISU faculty in the project over several years, a percentage indicated by research to mark the successful establishment of a sustainability curriculum across an institution.
A brief description of the incentives that faculty members who participate in the program(s) receive:
This bottom-up project aims to provide faculty with a collegiate and stimulating community and recognition for their efforts to integrate environmental and sustainable approach to curricula through yearly workshops involving up to 20 faculty members.Faculty participants are committed to integrating one or more sustainability components into their course. The philosophical foundation of the project is that faculty participants are the real experts and know best how to revise their courses: the project simply creates an intellectually stimulating environment that fosters creativity and professional development to integrate sustainability into the curriculum.
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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