Faculty in Residence: Ian Pollock
Let's have fun exploring how we might integrate sustainability across the curriculum and across the CSU East Bay campus in collaboration your peers in a fun and constructive Faculty Learning Community. Let's use this group as a mutual sounding wall for vetting concepts, approaches, and pedagogy.
Let's discover opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration and hold multi-disciplinary conversations on topics, such as connections between social justice and sustainability, campus land use, sustainability programs on campus, and using the campus as a living lab.
Let's support each other in identifying and implementing principles of sustainability across the curriculum by exploring locally grounded, community oriented, systems thinking and global awareness that and encourages citizen engagement in our courses and across our campus.
Purpose:
To provide a place to:
- Discuss the implications of the IPCC 2018 report on our lives and the lives of our students.
- Explore how sustainable development and sustainable adaptation are shaping our disciplinary knowledge.
- Incorporate design thinking practices to build sustainability into our curricula.
- Explore how we might incorporate high impact educational practices in sustainability education across our campus and the campus as a living lab.
Activities:
- Work towards creating a generative tool for sustainability assignments to be published online.
- Develop assignments grounded in sustainable climate change development and adaptation.
- Collaborate on developing a proposal for using the campus as a living lab
- Explore the use of a green hour for collaborative projects.
- Prepare an individual report on progress for the final FLC Symposium and participate in preparations for the symposium and report
- Contribute to the FLC Symposium materials and final report
Outcomes:
Each participant will have
- Collaborated on a tool for generating sustainability exercises across the curriculum.
- Participated on writing a group paper about the process and submitting it to a journal.
- Developed a suitable assignment that is grounded in sustainable climate change adaptation.
- Participated in developing a proposal for using the campus as a living lab
- Participated in the required number of FLC meetings.
- Completed an individual report for Faculty Development
- Contributed to the FLC Symposium materials and final report
Dates and Times:
The meetings listed below are preliminary, and we can adjust as we see fit when we first meet in November. Each member must attend a total of 20 hours, I am proposing that we meet for 3 hours each time for 7 meetings. There are more dates in case you have to miss one sessions.
- Friday, October 26th, from 12-2 in MPRB - FLC KICKOFF
- Friday, November 16, 11-2
- Friday, December 14, 11-2
- Friday, January 25, 11-2
- Friday, February 15, 11-2
- Friday, March 15, 11-2
- Friday,April 26 11-2
- Fri, May 10, 12-2 Year-End Event