Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.61
Liaison Kelsey Beal
Submission Date Nov. 2, 2015
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Indiana University Bloomington
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Andrew Predmore
University Director of Sustainability
Sustain IU
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Does the institution have an ongoing incentives program or programs that meet the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

A brief description of the program(s), including positive outcomes during the previous three years:

The Sustainability Course Development Fellowship, sponsored by the Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty & Academic Affairs, in collaboration with the IU Office of Sustainability, supports faculty members’ efforts to enhance teaching of topics related to sustainability and environmental literacy at the IU Bloomington campus. It supports innovative approaches to the instruction of complex, interdisciplinary topics at both undergraduate and graduate levels. Service-learning courses and those that involve the application of principles of sustainability to the IU Bloomington campus are of particular interest.


A brief description of the incentives that faculty members who participate in the program(s) receive:

The award for a Sustainability Course Development Fellowship is up to $8,000. If joint awards are made, recipients share the award. Recipients are expected to devote the equivalent of eight weeks full-time to their project during the summer immediately following the award. It is expected that they will not engage in teaching or administrative activities during that period. Recipients are also expected to engage with other fellows and members of the IUB sustainability community, to submit a summary report to the Office of Sustainability at the end of the fall semester following the award, and to formally disseminate the results of their instructional development project to other IU faculty.


The website URL where information about the incentive program(s) is available:
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IU also has a Sustainability Community of Practice, which provides support and a community for course development, collaboration, and the sharing of strategies for incorporating sustainability into courses.

http://sustain.indiana.edu/education-research/teaching-and-learning/community-of-practice.php


IU also has a Sustainability Community of Practice, which provides support and a community for course development, collaboration, and the sharing of strategies for incorporating sustainability into courses.

http://sustain.indiana.edu/education-research/teaching-and-learning/community-of-practice.php

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