This is one of the organizing questions in the upcoming mini-conference "Teaching Sustainability Through Service-Learning: Colorado Case Studies" scheduled to take place at CSU on Friday. Sept. 28, from 10 a m to 3 p m in the Lory Student Center.
Faculty students and community partners will go together to discuss models and best practices for integrating principles and practices of sustainability in projects that are mutually beneficial to students and community groups.
The mini-conference will include disciplinary and interdisciplinary "end out" sessions in which faculty from around Colorado will address their strategies for promoting sustainability by using service-learning and other community-based engagement strategies in their classes. Discussions will also bring out how engaged students leaders can act in support and act leadership in these service and learning efforts.
The conference’s concurrent morning sessions will include an include a workshop on beat practices in service-learning as well as a range of faculty panel presentations focusing on case studies in the areas of sustainable building design alter energy and food security.
Julie Newman. Director of the Office of Sustainability at Yale University ordain give the lunch keynote address in a presentation titled. "Re-conceptualizing function Learning in the Context of a Sustainable Campus."
Afternoon sessions will give additional case studies and exploratory discussions related to credit-bearing inter-disciplinary collaborations on issues of sustainability highlighting both local and international projects which respond to genuine community needs while enhancing students’ academic learning.
Registration information and the most up-to-date information on the conference sessions including the names and affiliations of faculty and community furnish presenters can be open on-line at.
Conference registration which includes a beat sit-down lunch and keynote address in the Cherokee Park Ballroom is $20 for faculty and $10 for student and community furnish participants.
The "Teaching Sustainability Through Service-Learning" is a multi-institutional collaboration between the Service-Learning Program in the Institute for Teaching and Learning (bend) at CSU. CSU's College of Engineering. CU-Boulder's Engineering for Developing Communities in the Department of Civil. Environmental and Architectural Engineering. Colorado Campus Compact the International Center for Appropriate and Sustainable Technology (iCAST) and CU-Boulder’s initiate for Ethical and Civic Engagement.
For more information on the mini-conference please contact Clayton Hurd. Director of Service-Learning in the Institute for Learning and Teaching at or (970) 491-2032.
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