Get connected to one of the fantastic supports available on campus. If you already know the kind of support your department needs, feel free to reach out via the contact information below, or reach out to the Sustainability Office to be connected to peer faculty that have pursued similar projects. If you are unsure of what supports would best suit your needs, reach out to the Sustainability Office, and the Sustainability Curriculum Specialist will help connect you.
Sustainability Office
The University of Waterloo Sustainability Office has led the integrating sustainability into undergraduate programs project, jointly with the Teaching Innovation Incubator. This project has researched best practices from literature, industry, and peer institutions, and connected with faculty champions across the campus.
Reach out to start conversations to better understand what resources and supports would be helpful and get connected, connect with faculty across campus already integrating sustainability by reaching out to start the conversation, or get involved in the work of this project and the Advisory group.
Contact the Sustainability Office.
Centre for Teaching Excellence
The Centre for Teaching Excellence (CTE) provides an array of programs and services for faculty and staff including curriculum design and renewal. This covers processes including design and development, implementation, formative assessment, and program review and accreditation.
To learn more about the available supports for faculty and staff, visit the CTE webpage on support for faculty and staff, or to arrange a one-on-one consultation with a staff member, or for more information, please contact the CTE.
Waterloo Climate Institute
The Waterloo Climate Institute (WCI) builds foundational knowledge in undergraduate and graduate degree programs by providing unique programs that expose students to interdisciplinary, international, and innovative experiential learning opportunities. Their goal is to support the development of future climate change leaders regardless of whether their chosen career path is in research, policy, practice or the private sector.
Illuminate is an educational simulation game that aims to teach players about the impacts of climate change, explore ways to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and respond to climate risks.
For more information on how WCI can support your curriculum work and on their existing projects, contact Michele Martin.
Co-operative and Experiential Education
Co-operative and Experiential Education (CEE) offers a voluntary SDGs at Work activity to students and supervisors. The activity supports learning more about the SDGs and how to operationalize them.
Learn more about the SDGs at Work activity and about the findings of this activity.
For more information, or other connections in CEE, contact Shabnam Ivkovic.
Office of Indigenous Relations
The Office of Indigenous Relations at the University of Waterloo works collaboratively on and off campus to advance the goals of the Truth and Reconciliation Calls to Action. They are implementing a long-term vision for the University, grounded in decolonization. Per the 2023-2028 Indigenous Strategic Plan, "Our goals are intended to advance a strategic focus on the advocacy, commitments and actionable areas that will enable the University of Waterloo to strengthen Indigenous inclusion and leadership."
If you are looking to engage with Indigenous ways of knowing, doing, and being, or want to centre Indigenous Knowledges in your curriculum, contact John Lewis, Director, Indigenous Faculty Relations.
Faculty Peers
Connect with faculty across campus already integrating sustainability by reaching out to start the conversation. We will connect you with faculty members in a related discipline already doing this work.
Contact the Sustainability Office to get connected.
Teaching Innovation Incubator
The Teaching Innovation Incubator, along with the Sustainability Office, is the home for this project. The Incubator supports experimentation with bold teaching and learning ideas by bringing together talent, expertise, and - where appropriate - technology to serve as a hub, catalyst, and launch pad for the development of transformative teaching ideas at Waterloo. Incubator projects receive the necessary supports (e.g., capacity, funding, communications, connection-making, knowledge repository, etc.) to develop, “test drive,” and evaluate ideas that have potential to be part of the next generation of teaching and learning at Waterloo.
This project’s outputs (i.e., its processes, resulting framework, and toolkit) can serve as a helpful foundation to support other institution-wide initiatives where the University of Waterloo recognizes a need for foundational understanding of global issues (e.g., Indigenization, anti-racism, etc.). To learn more about how your initiatives may align with the work done here, or to inquire about potential future Incubator project ideas, contact the Teaching Innovation Incubator.