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Faculty Development and Sustainability in the Curriculum: The Sustainability Faculty Learning Community at SUNY New Paltz

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Thursday, April 4, 2019
3:25 PM - 4:00 PM

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Panel


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Co-Presenters - Lisa Mitten, SUNY New Paltz, Emily Putoff, SUNY New Paltz, Tom Meyer, SUNY New Paltz


Speaker

Will Hong
Assistant Professor
SUNY New Paltz

Faculty Development and Sustainability in the Curriculum: The Sustainability Faculty Learning Community at SUNY New Paltz

3:25 PM - 4:00 PM

Presentation Description

A question: how to promote collaboration between faculty members in different fields and also encourage the infusion of sustainability in the curriculum? In this 35-minute panel, four colleagues from SUNY New Paltz will discuss the role of the campus Sustainability Office in faculty development, and how that investment led to the creation of the New Paltz Sustainability Faculty Learning Community (SFLC), a program co-sponsored by the Provost's Office and the university's Sustainability Committee. The year-long program brings together interested faculty and teaching staff from across the university's disciplines and schools to train them in the fundamentals of sustainable development (i.e. - the U.N. SDGs, systems-thinking, place-based pedagogy, etc.). The program also introduces participants to community stakeholders as potential partners, and asks that they use their new training in the development of either revised coursework or completely new team-taught courses that reflect the concerns and issues of sustainability. The panel will outline the history of the investment in faculty development by the Sustainability Office, offer attendees the framework of how to create a program like the SFLC on their home campuses, and will include fellows who've gone through the program who will describe their experiences and present their revised course syllabi.
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