Faculty Development

Educating for sustainability requires changes in the education that Dickinson College provides. An education that strives to be useful must enable young people to participate in solving the most pressing problems of our times, examples of which include poverty, lack of freedom, inequity, injustice, insecurity, climate change, ecological degradation, and biodiversity loss. These problems are interconnected and have roots in unsustainable human interactions with the environment, hence our decision to transition toward educating for sustainability

Curriculum, Professional, and Research Grants

Individual projects for sustainability related curriculum development, professional development opportunities, and student-faculty research projects and research assistantships are supported through the Sustainability Education (SEF). Faculty and other teaching staff may apply for a curriculum development grant from SEF for an individual or group project to develop new courses or enhance sustainability related content in existing courses. Professional development grants are available for projects that enhance or develop new knowledge, expertise or skills that will enable the recipient to advance environment and sustainability-related teaching, research, creativity, or civic engagement. Particularly encouraged are proposals for projects that enable transdisciplinary learning, use active pedagogies, experiential learning, or use spatial analysis and geographic information systems.
 
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Faculty Sustainability Development Workshop The Valley and Ridge Project is an interdisciplinary study group for faculty and other teaching staff to enhance sustainability content in the curriculum by supporting the development of new courses and revision of existing courses. >>LEARN MORE		Find something hidden in your curriculum?  There may be sustainability issues, research projects, and topics waiting to be discovered.