| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 65.20 |
| Liaison | Susan Kidd |
| Submission Date | June 21, 2018 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Agnes Scott College
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.00 / 2.00 |
Elizabeth
Rowe Sustainability Fellow Center for Sustainability |
Does the institution have an ongoing program or programs that offer incentives for faculty in multiple disciplines or departments to develop new sustainability courses and/or incorporate sustainability into existing courses?:
A brief description of the program(s), including positive outcomes during the previous three years (e.g. descriptions of new courses or course content resulting from the program):
Early in the college's sustainability programming, we established a training program for faculty, supported by a grant to the Center for Sustainability. We first offered support for faculty to attend "train the trainer" events, then we offered on-campus workshops for multiple faculty for two years. More recently Agnes Scott faculty are given the opportunity to participate in Emory University’s Piedmont Project workshops. Because of the college’s size and the size of the faculty, we did not have enough faculty to continue an annual workshop, so instead chose to partner with our regional partner, Emory University.
Recent participants in the Piedmont Project and the resulting courses are:
Bonnie Perdue, psychology: PSY 311 – Humans and Animal Learning
Rachel Hall-Clifford, public health and anthropology: Nutritional Anthropology and ANT/PH 240 - Medical Anthropology
A brief description of the incentives that faculty members who participate in the program(s) receive:
Agnes Scott faculty are supported by the Center for Sustainability to cover both the cost of participating, as well as an honorarium for designing and completing their course syllabus.
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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