| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 52.51 |
| Liaison | Josh Nease |
| Submission Date | May 10, 2022 |
Radford University
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Josh
Nease Sustainability Manager Academic Programs |
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):
The Radford University "Sustainability Across Curriculum" workshop is for all interested faculty from all disciplines. The goal of the workshop is to inspire and assist in revising existing or creating new curriculum to include sustainability components and/or learning outcomes.
The 1-day workshop explores how we can meaningfully integrate sustainability – broadly defined – into the classroom. We take a close look at Radford and the New River Valley and then invite participants to engage in local/global comparisons. RU faculty and staff and a few guest speakers facilitate and catalyze discussion of sustainability in curriculum and its integration and role in the broader community.
For this workshop, sustainability in curriculum means: This course teaches students about sustainability – about how meeting current needs does not sacrifice future well-being as it pertains to natural systems, human communities, and economic welfare”.
Sustainability Across Curriculum workshops are held every other year since 2017. The 2019 and 2021 workshops focused on “Campus and Community as a Living Sustainability Laboratory”. These workshops encouraged sustainability project-based learning with community and campus partners.
A brief description of the incentives that academic staff who participate in the program(s) receive:
Participants receive an honorarium of $250 for attending the workshop and revising/developing curriculum. The stipend is awarded when participants submit a progress report on their curriculum revision.
Website URL where information about the incentives for developing sustainability course content is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Josh Nease attended the AASHE Sustainability Across Curriculum workshop in January 2017 and returned to campus and organized the workshop later that semester. In the 2019 and 2021 workshops the Sustainability Office closely collaborated with RU's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning to deliver the program.
Josh Nease attended the AASHE Sustainability Across Curriculum workshop in January 2017 and returned to campus and organized the workshop later that semester. In the 2019 and 2021 workshops the Sustainability Office closely collaborated with RU's Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning to deliver the program.
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