This document outlines UNCA's efforts to integrate sustainability into its core programs. It discusses including sustainability concepts in the general education curriculum through courses like the senior capstone on global citizenship. Key challenges addressed are inadequate knowledge, policies, and values. Sustainability is defined from an interdisciplinary perspective encompassing sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Shared concepts taught include limits to growth and new understandings of human flourishing. Structural advantages like the small campus and integrative liberal studies program support these efforts. The goal is to cultivate engaged, informed citizens able to address sustainability problems.
Managed to Extinction? A 40th Anniversary Legal Forum assessing the 1971 Wild...Jan_Liverance
New York University (NYU) Environmental Law Journal (ELJ), NYU Environmental Studies Program and the NYU-SCPS M.A. Program in Graphic Communications Management and Technology jointly hosted MANAGED TO EXTINCTION? - A 40th Anniversary Legal Forum assessing the 1971Wild Free-Roaming Horses & Burros Act (WFRH&BA). Moderated by Dale Jamieson, Professor of Law and Director of the NYU Environmental Studies Program, this panel discussion took place at 6 p.m. on Wednesday evening, November 16th, 2011 at NYU School of Law, Vanderbilt Hall, 40 Washington Square South.
Managed to Extinction? A 40th Anniversary Legal Forum assessing the 1971 Wild...Jan_Liverance
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Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
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June 3, 2024 Anti-Semitism Letter Sent to MIT President Kornbluth and MIT Cor...Levi Shapiro
Letter from the Congress of the United States regarding Anti-Semitism sent June 3rd to MIT President Sally Kornbluth, MIT Corp Chair, Mark Gorenberg
Dear Dr. Kornbluth and Mr. Gorenberg,
The US House of Representatives is deeply concerned by ongoing and pervasive acts of antisemitic
harassment and intimidation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Failing to act decisively to ensure a safe learning environment for all students would be a grave dereliction of your responsibilities as President of MIT and Chair of the MIT Corporation.
This Congress will not stand idly by and allow an environment hostile to Jewish students to persist. The House believes that your institution is in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, and the inability or
unwillingness to rectify this violation through action requires accountability.
Postsecondary education is a unique opportunity for students to learn and have their ideas and beliefs challenged. However, universities receiving hundreds of millions of federal funds annually have denied
students that opportunity and have been hijacked to become venues for the promotion of terrorism, antisemitic harassment and intimidation, unlawful encampments, and in some cases, assaults and riots.
The House of Representatives will not countenance the use of federal funds to indoctrinate students into hateful, antisemitic, anti-American supporters of terrorism. Investigations into campus antisemitism by the Committee on Education and the Workforce and the Committee on Ways and Means have been expanded into a Congress-wide probe across all relevant jurisdictions to address this national crisis. The undersigned Committees will conduct oversight into the use of federal funds at MIT and its learning environment under authorities granted to each Committee.
• The Committee on Education and the Workforce has been investigating your institution since December 7, 2023. The Committee has broad jurisdiction over postsecondary education, including its compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, campus safety concerns over disruptions to the learning environment, and the awarding of federal student aid under the Higher Education Act.
• The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is investigating the sources of funding and other support flowing to groups espousing pro-Hamas propaganda and engaged in antisemitic harassment and intimidation of students. The Committee on Oversight and Accountability is the principal oversight committee of the US House of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X.
• The Committee on Ways and Means has been investigating several universities since November 15, 2023, when the Committee held a hearing entitled From Ivory Towers to Dark Corners: Investigating the Nexus Between Antisemitism, Tax-Exempt Universities, and Terror Financing. The Committee followed the hearing with letters to those institutions on January 10, 202
2. “Whenever society faces large problems, there is
a tendency to think that either their roots or their
solutions lie at least partly in
the educational system.”Andrew Brennan, 2008
“What if higher education [were] to take a leadership
role, as it has in the space race and the war on
cancer, in providing the knowledge to achieve a just
and sustainable society?
Second Nature. Education for Sustainability,2008
4. Purposeof Educating for Sustainability:
To cultivate
engaged, informed
citizens capable of
leading good lives and
contributing to
betterment of society
and all life
5. Undergirding Values of Sustainability
1. Obligations to future generations
2. Duty to increase/ protect human well-being
3. Duty to reduce global environmental harm/
transnational injustice
4. Stewardship of nature
6. Sustainability in Education:
UNCA Rationale
Keep pace with contemporary environmental
discourse
Prepare students for eco-focused future
Implement Goals of UNC Tomorrow
Respond to student interest/demand
Uphold UNCA’smission -
interdisciplinarity/engagement
UNCA Strategic Plan
7. Sites of Sustainability Education:
Why Core Curriculum?
Every student across curriculum
UNCA Integrative Liberal Studies (ILS) Model
(supports new course design)
UNCA Interdisciplinary Humanities Program
(team-designed/ team taught)
8. Sustainability: (df) Pluralist Definition
UNCA FOCUS ON
INTERDISCIPLINARITY
Capacity to endure and flourish:
Sciences: empirical /material
Social Sciences: choice
architecture/ policy
Humanities: values /culture
9. Challenges addressed in curriculum
1. Inadequate Knowledge/
Concepts
Scientific uncertainty
Lack of e-literacy
Cradle-to-Grave design
Risk Analysis v. Risk
perception
Public Goods
10. Challenges addressed in curriculum
2Inadequate Policies/
Mechanisms
Collective action problem
(diffuse responsibility)
Perverse incentives
Lack of human agency
11. Challenges addressed in curriculum
13. Un-sustainable Values
High social discount rate
Nature/culture split
Consumerism/Greed/Materi
alism
12. “Sustainability Norms”
(as taught in ILS)
Conservation /Limits to Growth
New concepts of human flourishing
New concepts of rational choice
(satisficing)
Cosmopolitanism: global
citizenshiptransnational solidarity
Biophilia
Global Justice / Human Rights
13. How we do it:
General Education at UNCA
1. Senior Capstone Colloquia
LS 479: Cultivating Global
Citizenship
2. Undergraduate Research
14. LS 479 Course Learning Outcomes
LS 479 Outcome 1:
Students analyze and interpret primary texts in Eastern and Western ethics
in terms of the structure of arguments, the historical context of the works,
and the students’ own values.
LS 479 Outcome 2:
Students can explain the concept of sustainability-including its economic,
social and environmental aspects and can evaluate sustainability initiatives
using contemporary ethical theory and ideas.
LS 479 Outcome 3:
Students can explain, in scholarly written form, how cultural contexts have
produced humanity’s most significant global challenges, and how these
contexts must also inform ethically-motivated responses.
LS 479 Outcome 4:
Students can produce a written assignment or class project on engaged
global citizenship that links to their accumulated undergraduate learning
and demonstrates understanding of diverse, contemporary ‘knowledges’
and cultures.
15. Sustainability at UNCA: Structural Advantages
custom-published “Asheville
Readers” (Copley)
regional emphasis on outdoor
recreation
Small campus (@ 3600 students)
Culture of Team-designed courses
“Common Lecture” format
Integrative liberal Studies Program
(ILS)
Undergraduate Research
16. Sustainability in Core Programs:
Shared Concepts
“cradle-to-cradle”
biodiversity
anthropogenic change
collective action problems
“tragedy of the commons”
non-renewability
“maldevelopment”
17. Sustainability: Auxiliary Learning
Outcomes
Understanding Intersections
(race / class / ethnicity)
Understanding human
agency / choice
architecture
Analyzing technology
Familairity with global
studies/ multi-cultural
studies
Cross-disciplinary
cooperation
18. Sustainability: Sample texts
Singer, Peter, “Animal Liberation” Kuhn, Thomas, “Scientists and their Worldviews.”
Tom Regan, The Case for Animal Rights Leopold, Aldo, “Thinking Like a Mountain.”
AmartyaSen, Development as Freedom Leopold, The Land Ethic
Arne Naess, “The Deep Ecological Movement: Some Lester Brown, “The Economy and the Earth”
Philosophical Aspects”
Lovins, Amory, “Technology is the Answer (But What
Berry, Wendell, “Manifesto: Mad Farmer Liberation Was the Question?)”
Front.”
McDonough and Braungart, Cradle to Cradle
Bryan Norton, “Environmental Ethics and Weak
Anthropocentrism” Paul Taylor, “The Ethics of Respect for Nature”
Deen, Islamic Environmental Ethics Peter Singer, One World
Dillard, Annie. From: “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.” Sallie McFague, “The World as God’s Body”
Dobel, Patrick, “The Judeo-Christian Stewardship Vandana Shiva, “Development, Ecology, and Women”
Attitude to Nature.”
Wilson, Edward O, “Storm Over the Amazon”
Dykeman, Wilma, “Who Killed the South French Broad?”
Wilson, Edward O, The Diversity of Life
Gordis, Robert, Judaism and the Environment
Hardin, Garret, “The Tragedy of the Commons.”
Keown, Buddhist Environmental Ethics
19. Sustainability Education:
general working areas
Apocolyptic tone
No “value-free” ideals
Neglect of “urban environment”
Starting late
More faith-based content
Book prices
20. Sustainability Impacts (UNCA)
Increased numbers of
undergraduate research
projects related to
sustainability
Measurable increase in the
number and scope of courses
incorporating Sustainability
Further integration of
environment content in
humanities disciplines