May 2010 Workshop Schedule
Leadership for Sustainability and Curriculum
Workshop for Campus Leaders
Duke University, May 24 and 25, 2010
Monday – Day 1: Franklin Humanities Institute: Room 240
9:15-9:30 Coffee and tea
9:30-10:10 Welcome; introductions; overview of workshop; definitions of sustainability
10:10-10:45 Peggy Barlett, Professor of Anthropology, Emory University. Exercise on place—beginning with the familiar; small groups— creativity and experiential learning
10:45-11:00 Break
11:00-11:30 Resource person I: Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Marie Lynn Miranda. Director, Children’s Environmental Health Institute.
11:40-12:00 Learning from other campuses; identifying progress already achieved; challenges, opportunities, institutional commitments
12:00-1:45 Lunch and outdoors activity; deepening engagement with place; Resource person II: Dan Richter, Professor of Soils and Forest Ecology, “Land Transformations”
1:45-2:00 Announcements
2:00-2:45 Welcome by Bill Chameides, Dean, Nicholas School of the Environment; shifting paradigms: discussion of readings. Fostering faculty growth; sustainability’s challenge to higher education
2:45-3:15 Eight ways to change a course; Ponderosa/Piedmont examples
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:15 Reflection exercise on leadership, change, and challenge
4:15-5:00 Identifying outstanding issues, planning for Tuesday
Tuesday – Day 2: Franklin Humanities Institute
9:15-9:30 Coffee and tea; check-in
9:30-10:30 Piedmont and Ponderosa Projects–How to lead the model
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-12:15 Interdisciplinarity, leadership, and institutional change; Learning outcomes, what students need to know; workgroups; report back
12:30-2:30 Lunch, interest groups; garden time
2:30-3:15 Curriculum across the campus: engaging sustainability at many levels (breakout sessions by institution)
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-4:00 Learning outcomes, STARS, and campus strategy (whole group discussion)
4:00-4:45 Institutional planning and next steps—goals, timelines, allies, and resources
4:45-5:30 Report back and discussion: challenges and opportunities; reflections, strategies for personal sustainability, evaluation of workshop.