| Overall Rating | Gold |
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| Overall Score | 83.87 |
| Liaison | Yolanda Cieters |
| Submission Date | March 1, 2024 |
Seattle University
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Yolanda
Cieters Associate Director CEJS |
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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):
The Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture (ICTC) "Course Development Fellowships" program funds projects that advance the University’s Jesuit Catholic Mission through faculty research or teaching. The Course Development Summer Stipend initiative supports faculty in any discipline who are creating a new course, or significantly revising an existing one, that addresses topics relating to Catholic thought and culture, including integral ecology and environmental justice; immigration, migration and displacement; imagination and the arts; racial justice and inclusion; and interreligious & interspiritual dialogue.
A few examples of past recipients and their representative projects include:
• Julie Homchick Crowe, Assistant Professor, Communication
"Scientific Controversies"
• Aakanksha Sinha, PhD, Assistant Professor
"Developing a University Core Curriculum on Global Food Justice"
• Lyn Gualtieri, Senior Instructor, Environmental Science, College of Science and Engineering
"Applying Ignatian Pedagogy to the Natural Sciences: UCOR 1800 course redesign"
• Heath Spencer, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of History
"Global Migration and Human Dignity"
• Stacey Jones, PhD, Senior Instructor, Albers School of Business and Economics
"Economics of Inequality"
• Anne Farina, PhD, College of Arts & Sciences
"Global Perspectives on Mental Health”
A few examples of past recipients and their representative projects include:
• Julie Homchick Crowe, Assistant Professor, Communication
"Scientific Controversies"
• Aakanksha Sinha, PhD, Assistant Professor
"Developing a University Core Curriculum on Global Food Justice"
• Lyn Gualtieri, Senior Instructor, Environmental Science, College of Science and Engineering
"Applying Ignatian Pedagogy to the Natural Sciences: UCOR 1800 course redesign"
• Heath Spencer, PhD, Associate Teaching Professor, Department of History
"Global Migration and Human Dignity"
• Stacey Jones, PhD, Senior Instructor, Albers School of Business and Economics
"Economics of Inequality"
• Anne Farina, PhD, College of Arts & Sciences
"Global Perspectives on Mental Health”
A brief description of the incentives that academic staff who participate in the program(s) receive:
The Course Development Fellowships program offers a course development summer stipend of $3,000 to eligible faculty, one portion at the beginning of the program and the remainder once the course syllabus is submitted at the end by the academic year. This fellowship includes a required one-day intensive summer workshop on the Catholic intellectual tradition and an opportunity to request a faculty colleague to function as mentor as you develop your course.
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