Academics and Research Working

Group

Teaching Future Generations

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)

Background

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

• United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development(2005-2014)

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

kmaynard@geog.ucsb.edu