Lakehead University
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses

While the university doesn't have any ongoing incentive programs in place, a related incentive opportunity was offered in 2014.

Faculty, staff and students from across the university were invited to send in applications to attend the "Sustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop Retreat", which was held on April 23 – 25, 2014 at the university's Thunder Bay campus, to explore how their teaching, research and engagement activities can contribute to the sustainability revolution.

Coordinated by the Lakehead’s Centre for Place and Sustainability Studies, the grant-funded (Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council) workshop aimed to build community among an interdisciplinary group of colleagues with diverse commitments to “sustainability”, broadly defined.

During the retreat, participants reflected on current pedagogy and practice, engaged with the particular challenges and opportunities facing sustainability education at the university, and how to strengthen sustainability action on campus and beyond.

All 23 workshop participants were eligible to receive a research budget of $1000 to help further integrate sustainability into their work.