Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 68.52
Liaison Geory Kurtzhals
Submission Date Oct. 15, 2014
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University of Notre Dame
ER-14: Incentives for Developing Sustainability Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 Geory Kurtzhals
Sr. Director
Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution have a program that meets the criteria outlined above?:
Yes

A brief description of the program(s):

1. The Energy Center accepts applications for funding from faculty and graduate students to develop new courses or to enhance existing courses to include energy-related topics and issues.
Center for Environmental Justice
Focused on EIJ-related teaching, research, and service, the Center for Environmental Justice and Children’s Health is a multi-disciplinary group of Notre Dame faculty, students, and friends dedicated to addressing EIJ.
Additionally, the director of the Sustainability Minor will conduct a Sustainability Across the Curriculum workshop in May 2015. That will incentivize incorporating sustainability into courses by offering a stipend to faculty members who participate by creating a new course or adding a sustainability unit to their course.


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

1. Faculty receive funding for developing courses.
2. Grants for teaching, research and service are available.
3. A stipend given to faculty members who create a new course or add a sustainability unit to an existing course.


The website URL where information about the program is available:
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