| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 71.75 |
| Liaison | Jauna Vitale |
| Submission Date | Feb. 14, 2025 |
New York University
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Jauna
Vitale Assistant Director, Sustainability NYU Office of Sustainability |
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? :
A brief description of the incentive program(s):
In an effort to build community and foster interdisciplinary exchange on topics with a humanistic focus at New York University, the Center for the Humanities sponsors Working Groups grants. The Center envisions these grants as bringing together NYU faculty and graduate students in a carefully planned series of meetings on a focused topic in the humanities where interdisciplinary approaches are likely to be particularly fruitful. The Center expects that the work achieved by the Working Groups will generate new curricular offerings, publications, conferences, or collaborative faculty projects.
Critical Voices examines the relationship between environmentalism, biodiversity and racial justice to explore the role that histories of settler-colonialism and ongoing capitalist paradigms have played in approaches to the teaching, practice and academic study of environmental justice. The group addresses topics such as food justice, land degradation, and the climate crisis, and how indigenous, Black, Brown and front-line communities continue to be harmed and systematically silenced. The goal of these discussions is to develop new curricular offerings that center the voices of those on the front-line of the environmental crisis.
In Spring 2024, Critical Voices was piloted as a new core course for NYU’s Liberal Studies major.
A brief description of the incentives that academic staff who participate in the program(s) receive:
Faculty members can apply for up to $10,000 of funding to support the creation of working groups to build community and foster interdisciplinary exchange.
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