Sustainability and Teaching

In collaboration with the Office of Sustainability, CTL is pleased to provide some resources related to sustainability and environmental issues.

YouTube webinars

• Fashion institute of Technology – In this panel, faculty members share their insight on incorporating sustainability into the curricula and offer guidance in creating and updating courses.
• University of Queensland – This panel focuses on using UN Sustainability Development Goals that should be incorporated into the curricula and discuss practical ways of doing so.

Helpful Websites

• Vanderbilt – This website aims to provide valuable insight in effectively incorporating sustainability into their teaching across various disciplines. It offers strategies and tips to engage students in understanding various environmental problems.
• Carleton – This website provides information about integrating sustainability through an interdisciplinary perspective and using real world examples and pedagogical approaches to the subject.
• AASHE and   Scholar Exchange – Tips to incorporate sustainability into the curriculum to foster a holistic approach to ecological education and build ecological awareness.
• ACS – This paper discusses the relevance and importance of integrating sustainability into chemistry education through interdisciplinary approaches and using chemistry to address environmental challenges.
• University of British Columbia – This article contains insight into effectively integrating sustainability content in first year courses and has relevant information addressing challenges associated with course structure along with various case studies.

Books in the CTL Library

• Integrating Sustainable Development into the Curriculum explores the value of institutions of higher education in leading the way on the topic of sustainability education by ensuring that it is well entrenched in the curriculum as well as everyday practice and lifestyles.
• Sustainability Education has a clear academic justification and is aptly outlined with examples of creative and relevant ideas that could easily be adapted and implemented in many fields
• Sustainability in Higher Education documents both the power of leadership—whether by college presidents, faculty, staff, or student activists—and the potential for institutions to redefine themselves
• Teaching Sustainability: Perspectives from the Humanities and Social Sciences demonstrates the ways in which a single course can serve as a powerful change agent for an entire campus, how to build bridges between faculty and administrators, and even how to move forward on modest budgets.