iSEE is offering seed funding to help faculty & instructors incorporate sustainability into the classroom in 2022-23. Levenick Teaching Sustainability Fellows can get $1,000 to integrate sustainability into an existing course or $2,000 to develop a new course, as well as resource support. 100- and 200-level courses encouraged.
Application deadline Jan. 31, 2022.
iSEE is offering funding to integrate elements of sustainability into an existing course ($1,000 award) or develop a new course with a sustainability focus ($2,000 award) through the 2021 Levenick iSEE Teaching Sustainability Fellowship. Applications are due January 31.
Faculty and instructors have until month's end to apply for iSEE's 2021 Course Development Cohort program, increasing sustainability course offerings across campus. The 2021 Levenick Teaching Sustainability Fellows will integrate sustainability components into an existing course ($1,000) or develop a new course with a sustainability focus ($2,000). 100- and 200-level courses especially encouraged.
Tony Mancuso • Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE)
iSEE is launching its third annual application period for the Levenick iSEE Teaching Sustainability Fellowship. This program provides support for Illinois instructors to integrate sustainability components into an existing course or develop a new course with a sustainability focus.
iSEE is pleased to announce that eight instructors have been named 2020-21 Levenick iSEE Teaching Sustainability Fellows.
Funded by a generous endowment from Illinois Alumnus Stuart L. Levenick and his wife Nancy J. Levenick, this second cohort of faculty and teachers from across the University of Illinois campus (and one from University Laboratory High School) will incorporate sustainability into existing classes or create entirely new courses built around sustainability elements.
Associate Director for Education & Outreach Gillen D’Arcy Wood said applications nearly doubled for the Levenick iSEE Teaching Sustainability program this year, a positive sign of a growing program — and growing interest in adding sustainability thinking in all academic units.
The 2020-21 cohort and the courses they will undertake:
Read more about the Fellows and their projects >>>
The Levenick iSEE Teaching Sustainability Fellowship program consists of four elements to help the 2020-21 Fellows best incorporate sustainability into their courses:
Faculty and instructors have until month's end to apply for iSEE's 2020 Course Development Cohort program, targeted to intentionally grow sustainability course offerings across campus. The 2020 Levenick Teaching Sustainability Fellows will integrate sustainability components into an existing course ($1,000) or develop a new course with a sustainability focus ($2,000).
Tony Mancuso • Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment (iSEE)
Dustin Allred teaches GCL126 Urban Sustainability.
Attached are the presentations prepared by the students in ENVS 301. The course syllabus is also attached.
John Marlin is teaching a course about the Mud to Parks project. It is NRES 285: Beneficial Reuse of Sediment: The Mud to Parks Field Experience.
Meeting set for 9/23/2013 to discuss the progress and intentions for a course by Professor Warren Lavey, related to previously funded SSC projects.
Engineering 315, Learning in the Community (LINC), has a number of course sections dedicated to sustainability this semester, including UI Bikes (UIB), for which Facilities & Services is serving as the Project Partner. The UIB section has two student project managers and 13 undergraduate students, who will be focusing on three bicycle-related projects this semester: A. the continuation of the bike sharing market analysis started last semester, including a campus-wide survey and targeted focus groups; B. the development of a campus bicycle parking map; and C. testing various marketing tactics to try to encourage students to park their bikes legally at designated bike parking, rather than on trees, signs, ramps, or fences.
F&S and the Campus Bike Project (CBP) met with an MBA class who agreed to help the CBP become fiscally self-supporting through improved marketing. There are two student teams who will review this topic in the context of all bicycle-related topics for campus.
Logistics are underway for the Spring, 2012 offering of the Teaching Sustainability Workshop (previously the Prairie Project). There will be an opening reception and keynote speaker on Friday, April 13 at Levis Center and the workshop will be held on April 14, 2012 at the Japan House. The call for applications went out on January 25 with applications due by March 9. In two days, we had already received 11 applications and are now up to 15. This is the quickest response we have had to date.
The Scholarship of Sustainability Series is currently being offered for the third year. The series is connected with 4 courses from 3 different colleges in addition to the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. Attendance each Thursday is expected to be around 100 people as the enrollment in the 4 courses are full (and the series will not be videotaped.)
Last fall, the SSC suggested an MOU with the Office of Sustainability regarding the hiring of a curriculum specialist to work one-on-one with faculty to integrate sustainability into the curriculum. The OS submitted a letter of inquiry for committee response on January 27, 2012.
