| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
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| Overall Score | 76.93 |
| Liaison | Ezra Small |
| Submission Date | March 6, 2020 |
University of Massachusetts Amherst
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
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Connor Maresca Project Manager, Sustainability Programming ECo |
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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 Sustainability Curriculum Fellowship (SCF) is a year-long interdisciplinary fellowship program. It was established in 2013 (as the Sustainability Curriculum Initiative) to enable UMass faculty to cultivate teaching excellence in sustainability. The SCF is supported by the Chancellor’s Sustainability Advisory Committee, School of Earth & Sustainability (SES), Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), and UMass Amherst Libraries. Over the past six years, faculty from across 31 departments have participated in the SCF.
A brief description of the incentives that academic staff who participate in the program(s) receive:
The Sustainability Curriculum Fellows program provides two types of incentives -- membership and regular professional development for faculty, and a small financial incentive. The professional development includes a day-long orientation to sustainability education for incoming Fellows during the summer, assistance with syllabus development etc, and then provides faculty fellows with a monthly Fellows gathering at which faculty share best practices with each other, engage with guest speakers etc.
The financial incentives for the SCF program involve $1000 award.
The financial incentives for the SCF program involve $1000 award.
Optional Fields
https://www.umass.edu/sustainability/resources/idea-funding/sustainability-curriculum-fellowship-scf
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