Nine New Workshops from AASHE’s Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum

We are pleased to invite you to the following workshops organized by AASHE Centers for Sustainability Across the Curriculum. These events are designed to accelerate the infusion of sustainability content into the curriculum by increasing the availability and accessibility of sustainably focused professional development opportunities. Find an event near you!

Upcoming workshops include:

WhatInfusing Sustainability Across the Curriculum, Spring 2018
Where: Ramapo College of New Jersey, Mahwah, NJ
When: March 9 – 12 | Register by March 7
Contact personAshwani Vasishth
In this two-day workshop, participants will explore how best to permeate sustainability, very broadly defined, across the higher education curriculum. Participants will also work to transform a specific syllabus. Registration covers materials and lunch for both days. Register now.

WhatOnline Workshop – Sustainability Across the Curriculum
Where: Online
WhenMarch 19 – April 22 | Register by March 19
Contact personMichelle Zurawski
This online event is designed for higher education instructors wishing to infuse issues of sustainability (ecological stability, social equity and economic vitality) into their curriculum regardless of the discipline. Sustainability issues cross all disciplines and the intent of this course is to identify those areas of intersection. Effective assessment of critical thinking skills, collaboration, creativity and the ability to analyze, discuss and create solutions to real-world sustainability problems will be explored. Register now.

WhatGrand Challenges of Conservation: Western Science & Indigenous Wisdom 
Where: University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
WhenMay 14 – 16 | Register by May 1
Contact personKrista Hiser
The Grand Challenges of Conservation combines Education for Sustainability and Science Education for New Civic Engagements and Responsibilities (SENCER) to design project-based curriculum with an emphasis on learning outcomes assessment, place-based learning, and meeting of wisdoms between Western Science & Indigenous Wisdoms. Save the Date, registration will open after March 15.

WhatSustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop at Colorado College
Where: Colorado College, Colorado Springs, CO
WhenMay 17 – 18 | Apply and register by April 13
Contact personIan Johnson
This workshop is designed to help faculty develop an outline or course module that broadens the sustainability course offerings at their institution. Participants engage in exercises that foster a broad and deep understanding of sustainability, including reflection, field trips and group discussion to support the development of a greater sense of place. Join us to learn about and expand sustainability course offerings at your institution. Faculty from all disciplines are encouraged to participate. Register now.

WhatSustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop at The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Where: McAllen Embassy Suite, McAllen Convention Center, McAllen, TX
WhenMay 18 – 19 | Register between March 15 and April 27
Contact personNaomi Keith
This intensive two-day faculty development program brings together faculty from all fields, allowing for an exchange of ideas and nurturing an enriching collaborative atmosphere. This interdisciplinary exercise helps faculty to explore the shifts in pedagogy needed to incorporate sustainability concepts, problems, or solutions into new or existing courses. Drawn from experienced faculty and professionals on issues of sustainability, environment, and curriculum, the instructional materials, activities, and presentations provided strongly support education for sustainable development. We invite you to join us along with local, state, national, and global participants, providing international experiences while opening a range of collaborative and networking opportunities for all. Save the Date, registration will open after March 15.

WhatSustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop
Where: Dickinson College, Carlisle, PA
WhenMay 22-24 | Apply by March 31
Contact personLindsey Lyons
Dickinson College is inviting faculty from other colleges and universities to participate in its Valley & Ridge Faculty Development Workshop. If you are thinking about integrating social, economic and/or environmental sustainability into your undergraduate teaching, this workshop is for you. Valley & Ridge brings together faculty members from all academic disciplines to work collaboratively to introduce and enhance sustainability content in new and existing courses across the curriculum. Apply now.

WhatSustainability Across the Curriculum: Integrating Undergraduate Research and Community Engagement
Where: Central College, Pella, IA
WhenMay 24 – 25 | Register by April 15
Contact personBrian Campbell
This workshop will introduce best practices for integrating sustainability-focused undergraduate research across the curriculum, with an emphasis on community-based research. Participants will have the opportunity to design courses with a research component (from intro-level to capstone courses) as well as non-course-based research projects, such as summer research experiences and independent student-faculty projects. Participants will leave with resources on sustainability course design, tips for establishing and maintaining community partnerships, exercises for student reflection and tools for assessment. Register now.

WhatEarly Childhood Education Programming and Pathways to Stewardship and Kinship Model – Raising Healthy Children for a Healthy Planet
Where: Fleming College, Peterborough, Ontario
WhenJune 8 (with an optional workshop on June 9) | Register by May 8
Contact personTrish O’Connor 
This workshop will focus on experiential learning in the natural environment, including tools, practical examples and case studies regarding the Pathways to Stewardship & Kinship Framework and Fleming’s Eco-mentorship model. These models represent a unique experience designing ECE Programming with a focus on sustainability by incorporating an Early Childhood Education Program model for raising the next generation of stewards.
Optional Workshop: Building Ecological Learning through the Arts, Connecting Children with Nature and Place Through Drawing, Connecting Children with Nature and Place through Natural Dyeing and Fibre Work, and Connecting Children with Nature and Place through Clay.Register now.

WhatUsing Campus and Community as Sustainability Living Learning Labs
Where: Furman University, David E. Shi Center for Sustainability
WhenJune 7 – 8 | Apply by April 9
Contact personKelly Grant Purvis
Envision your campus and community as a sustainability pedagogical opportunity, a chance to infuse sustainability across your curriculum and provide applied, real world sustainability experiences for students. Furman University is offering an interactive idea-generating workshop for sharing and establishing best practices to utilize the campus and surrounding community as Sustainability Living Learning Labs. The workshop is intended for faculty and sustainability staff who are currently using Sustainability Living Learning Labs on their campus or in their surrounding community. This two-day workshop will focus on building a shared framework for developing, institutionalizing, expanding and maintaining Sustainability Living Learning Lab programs both on campus and in the surrounding community. Apply now.

Stay tuned for other Center-organized workshops to be scheduled for summer and fall 2018.

I hope you can join us at one of these events,

Thank you,
Julian
Julian Dautremont-Smith
Director of Programs
Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
www.aashe.org | julian@aashe.org | (888) 347-9997 ext. 127