| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 51.46 |
| Liaison | Bradley Flamm |
| Submission Date | March 6, 2020 |
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 |
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? :
A brief description of the incentive program(s):
Training workshops for faculty on meaningfully incorporating concepts of environmental, social, and economic sustainability into their courses have been held three times -- in January 2016, January 2018, and January 2020. These two-day workshops, named the Brandywine Project Faculty Sustainability Workshops, have trained 73 faculty members and resulted in large increases in the numbers of courses listed in our inventory of sustainability-focused and sustainability-inclusive courses.
A brief description of the incentives that academic staff 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) provide an additional incentive of a $500 stipend to faculty participants who successfully complete the workshop and follow up with submission of a syllabus for a new or revised course that reflects their learning.
Website URL where information about the incentives for developing sustainability course content is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Description provided by Professor Cheryl Wanko (English) and Aliza Richman (Sociology), co-chairs of the 2020 Brandywine Project Faculty Sustainability Workshop.
Description provided by Professor Cheryl Wanko (English) and Aliza Richman (Sociology), co-chairs of the 2020 Brandywine Project Faculty Sustainability Workshop.
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