Overall Rating Bronze
Overall Score 36.76
Liaison Lora Strigens
Submission Date Dec. 22, 2021

STARS v2.2

Marquette University
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Chelsea Malacara
Sustainability & Energy Management Coordinator
Facilities Planning and Management
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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? :
Yes

A brief description of the incentive program(s):
Marquette University Center for Transnational Justice (CTJ) awards two grants for full-time Marquette faculty to develop new courses, or significantly revise existing courses, that explore issues of justice that transcend national borders. The course must be taught at least once within three semesters following notice of the grant award. Innovative proposals are sought especially in the following areas:

• Migration: including immigration, refugee and asylum issues, migrant worker issues, immigrant incorporation and exclusion
• Economics, Politics, and Justice: including issues of hunger, environmental policy and practice, global economic crises, and development
• Human Security: including issues of human rights challenges and protections, health care and pandemic diseases, and transnational crime

In 2020, Dr. Brian Palmer-Rubin, Political Science received funding for developing a course titled, "The Politics of Food."

A brief description of the incentives that academic staff who participate in the program(s) receive:
Grant funding

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