| Overall Rating | Bronze - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 38.03 |
| Liaison | Bradley Flamm |
| Submission Date | March 1, 2019 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
West Chester University of Pennsylvania
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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2.00 / 2.00 |
Bradley
Flamm Director of Sustainability Office of the President |
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Does the institution have an ongoing program or programs that offer incentives for faculty in multiple disciplines or departments to develop new sustainability courses and/or incorporate sustainability into existing courses?:
Yes
A brief description of the program(s), including positive outcomes during the previous three years (e.g. descriptions of new courses or course content resulting from the program):
Training workshops for faculty on meaningfully incorporating sustainability into their courses have been held two times -- in January 2016 and in January 2018. These two-day workshops, named the Brandywine Project Faculty Sustainability Workshops, has trained 50 faculty members and resulted in large increases in the numbers of courses listed in our inventory of sustainability-focused and sustainability-related courses.
A brief description of the incentives that faculty members who participate in the program(s) receive:
All such workshops are considered professional development for teaching and thus positively contribute to tenure and promotion decisions. The two-day intensive Brandywine Project Faculty Sustainability Workshops (modeled on AASHE's Piedmont Project: http://www.aashe.org/events/workshops/2016/Sustainability-Across-the-Curriculum-Jan-2016) provided an additional incentives (a $1000 stipend in 2016 and a $500 stipend in 2018) to faculty participants.
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