Would you like to incorporate sustainability concepts (environmental, economic, and/or social) into one of your already existing courses? We invite you to enhance your teaching and engagement with environmental and interconnected economic and social justice issues by participating in the Integrating Sustainability into your Teaching Faculty Learning Community (FLC), January-April, 2025.
Topics to be covered:
- Sustainability in all its forms;
- A wide variety of strategies and assignments to meaningfully integrate sustainability—broadly defined—into courses;
- Linking sustainability to student learning outcomes;
- Ways to engage resource people from across campus who can help facilitate and catalyze integrating sustainability into your teaching; and
- Ways to use the Ball State campus as a canvas for engaging students in learning about sustainability and generating solutions to sustainability issues.
FLC participants will:
- Investigate sustainability and how it can be incorporated into their course/s;
- Redesign a course syllabus incorporating sustainability concepts; and
- Design learning experiences integrating sustainability.
This FLC is open to anyone who teaches students at Ball State across all colleges, departments, and units. Selected members should plan to meet in-person for 1 ½ -2 hours every three weeks throughout spring 2025. The meeting schedule will be determined based on the availability of the participants during the weeks of January 27, February 17, March 17, April 7, and April 28.
Participants will receive $375 upon completion of a new or revised syllabus and several learning experiences in a Recognized Incentive Activity (RIA) account or as a salary stipend. Funds will be distributed in May 2025. The deadline for applying is at 11:59 pm on Friday, January 17, 2025. Applicants will be notified regarding acceptance no later than Wednesday, January, 22, 2025. The first meeting will occur during the week of January 27. The specific day and time will be determined by participants’ availability.
APPLY HERE, or, if you prefer, copy and paste this URL in your browser
https://bsu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_727L4F0pf4M6lr8
Questions? Contact Josh Gruver (jbgruver@bsu.edu) or Kathy Jacobi (kjacobi@bsu.edu)