Consultations with campus community set to begin this fall

The “Accelerating integration of sustainability and climate change in campus undergraduate programs” is working to identify a flexible framework through which climate and sustainability competencies can be integrated into any program of study as they are relevant, and identify processes and tools to support program administrators, chairs, instructors, and central support units to utilize the framework.

Thus far, a cross-functional, interdisciplinary working group of faculty, staff, and students has designed a draft version of a five-step framework and accompanying toolkit to aid units in determining how sustainability education might align with existing program outcomes, and which tools or resources can be incorporated to further integration of sustainability.

Consultations with Chairs and Associate Chairs, Undergrad, will be scheduled throughout the fall term to receive input and feedback on this model. In year 2 of the project, this framework and toolkit will be piloted with partner programs to test its feasibility and generate best practices to guide future interest in integrating sustainability into the curriculum.

Questions about the project can be directed to Mathew Thijssen, Director of the Sustainability Office and Project Lead (mthijssen@uwaterloo.ca) or Kyle Scholz, Interim Managing Director of the Teaching Innovation Incubator (kwscholz@uwaterloo.ca).