Mission
• To educate and facilitate interaction between faculty, staff, students, and community.
• We will create, disseminate, and assess knowledge
• using sustainable practices through classroom instruction, research, service learning, and visual and performing arts.
• Who are we? – Professor– Executive Director of CCBER – Lecturer– Instructional Development– Budget & Finance Analyst, Office of
the Executive Vice Chancellor – Sustainability Coordinator
Academic Senate Working Group
on Sustainability
Academics and Research Working Team of the CSP
Committee on Undergraduate Environmental
Education
Campus Sustainability Plan= (CSP)
Talloires Declaration
• Establish programs to produce expertise in environmental management, sustainable economic development, population, and related fields…
… to ensure that all university graduates are environmentally literate and responsible citizens.
Talloires Declaration
• Create programs to develop the capability of university faculty to teach environmental literacy to all undergraduate, graduate, and professional school students.
Talloires Declaration
• Convene school deans and environmental practitioners to develop research, policy, information exchange programs, and curricula for an environmentally sustainable future.
Talloires Declaration
• Establish partnerships with primary and secondary schools to help develop the capability of their faculty to teach about population, environment, and sustainable development issues.
UCSB Strategic Academic Plan
2007-2025
• The Environment was named as one of the key four interdisciplinary themes for the campus, along with Global and International Issues, The Academy and Society and Digital Studies
Current Practices;Curriculum
• Environmental Studies and Donald Bren School
• Literature and the Environment Program
• Curriculum Development Projects
• ME 197 Project Course
• New emphasis in Geography
• Sustainability Internship Program
Current Practices;Research
• Leading research in solar energy technology and LED lighting, sustainable development, world agriculture and more
• Science outreach programs, MSI, Chemistry, Endeavor Center, Kids in Nature, etc…
• Laboratory Research And Technical Staff (LabRATS)
Goals for this year
• Complete a Baseline Assessment using surveys of faculty and students
• Formalize the Academic Senate Working Group on Sustainability
• Propose several resolutions on sustainability to Academic Senate via the new working group
Goals for this year
• Increase access to and knowledge of existing resources related to sustainability, curriculum and research
• Publicize the work already being done
Long Term Vision
• All faculty, staff and students in every department and division at UCSB will employ fully sustainable classroom and curriculum practices.
• UCSB will become an innovator in developing instructional techniques and practices to become a fully sustainable campus
• Will become a role model for all educational institutions.
Contact
• Katie Maynard Sustainability Coordinator, Curriculum, Research and Student Engagement
805-893-2003
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