| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 49.88 |
| Liaison | Kristina Hope |
| Submission Date | Feb. 13, 2015 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Knox College
AC-5: Immersive Experience
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Deb
Steinberg Director of Campus Sustainability Initiatives Office of Sustainability |
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Does the institution offer at least one immersive, sustainability-focused educational study program that meets the criteria for this credit?:
Yes
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A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s) offered by the institution:
The "Green Oaks Term" is an immersive full-term experience, in which a dozen students live on our 700-acre Green Oaks biological field station, taking unusual interdisciplinary classes focused on sustainability, environmental sciences, and anthropology. Students participate in field work on the tallgrass prairie, old growth oaks, second-growth oak-hickory forest, lakes, and streams. They complete a final project that explores a focused topic in a range of possible ways: creative work, research, scholarship, or a hybrid approach. Students are a part of building a small, experimental, high-functioning community that is fully integrated into its natural surroundings. Participants are expected, through this experience, to see the world differently, and change their life accordingly.
In the summer of 2012, the Sitka Alaska program was launched which takes a group of students on an immersive experience into the Alaskan wilderness and fishing villages to learn about sustainable business, fishing, and wildlife management.
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The website URL where information about the immersive program(s) is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
additional link: http://cmstest.knox.edu/offices/bastian-family-center-for-career-and-pre-professional-development/internship-program/wild-salmon-conservation-and-restoration-internship.html
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