Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 67.34
Liaison Jennifer Andrews
Submission Date July 29, 2014
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University of New Hampshire
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Tom Kelly
Chief Sustainability Officer
University Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution have an ongoing incentives program or programs that meet the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

A brief description of the program(s), including positive outcomes during the previous three years:

The Sustainability Institute has seven faculty scholars in biodiversity, climate, food and culture, with more planned. Faculty are paid via course buyouts, % of salary covered payment for graduate assistants or other teaching/research help, etc. UNHSI faculty scholars help integrate sustainability into curricula at UNH, among other duties.

Fundraising is on-going to support more faculty through endowed chairs, more faculty fellows, junior faculty lines, etc.

In 2011, UNHSI began offering UNH College of Liberal Arts (COLA) faculty interested in developing and implementing programming that brings a liberal arts perspective to sustainability competitive grants for curricular and co-curricular programming. To date, 14 faculty have been awarded course grants. Awardees also participate in and help lead a discussion group (open to any UNH faculty member) focused on teaching the humanities and sustainability. http://www.sustainableunh.unh.edu/casrfp


A brief description of the incentives that faculty members who participate in the program(s) receive:

Depending on the program, faculty receive course buyouts, supplemental pay, professional development, technology to enhance classroom teaching, interaction time with sustainability experts brought to campus, travel expenses, and more in order to help develop sustainability-related or focused courses and other scholarship.


The website URL where information about the incentive program(s) is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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