Lehigh University
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses

In December 2018, Lehigh University held a day-long workshop entitled Educating Future Leaders: Integrating Sustainability in the Curriculum, which was open to faculty (including Professors of Practice) in all four colleges. The purpose of this workshop was to help faculty: 1. Reimagine how courses of all kinds can better incorporate environmental responsibility, social equity and financial inclusion content with the goal of providing future leaders the education and skills necessary to achieve sustainable communities and societies. 2. Identify opportunities to utilize the campus as a living laboratory by bridging theory to practice 3. Learn about the 8 ways to integrate sustainability content into any course 4. Cover campus resources available to assist faculty who wish to integrate content into their course(s). As a follow up to this workshop, two additional 1-hour workshops were held in February 2019 and March 2019. These workshops were mainly discussion-based where ideas were shared. Nobody in these two one-hour workshops were paid anything or asked to commit to anything. It is the expectation that Lehigh University will hold a similar day-long workshop for faculty in 2019-2020 as well.

For the faculty members who attended the day-long workshop and who then revised their syllabus to integrate sustainability into their course(s), they were given a $500 stipend. Those faculty members had to submit their original syllabus and their revised syllabus to the Lehigh Sustainability Council Education Subcommittee for review and approval before the stipend was disbursed.