The document discusses the impact of climate change on academic institutions, covering areas such as building design, research adaptation, teaching methods, and community relations. It emphasizes the need for academia to respond to climate challenges through protective and systemic actions while exploring new pedagogies and interdisciplinary research. Additionally, it highlights the role of universities in supporting climate justice and addressing local community concerns related to climate change.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage
Universities on Fire
Academia in the climate crisis

2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage
The biggest driver of change

3. What we’ll explore
1. Impacts on campuses
2. Research
3. Teaching

4. What we’ll explore
● Community relations
● Academia in the world
● What next?

5. How it works
1.I share some research and
forecasts
2.You write about how your
work might - should -
change in…
a.Chat
b.Google Doc etc.

6. Scope: out
• No time to explain climate
change today
• Macro picture, mostly
• Long term trend
• Plenty of variations

7. One scenario: SSP1-1.9
● Humanity gets its act
together
● No tipping points passed
● Benevolent disasters

8. The worst scenario: SSP5-8.5

9. Today: a middle path
• Temp rises >2 degrees
• Some collective action,
civilizational transformation
• 1-2 tipping points passed

10. Domains of action
1.Protective action
2.Systemic participation

11. 1.Impacts on campuses

19. Climate change on campus
Buildings
●Carbon zero or negative
●New materials
●Experimental practices

20. Climate change on campus
●Water, desert barriers
●Elevating buildings
●Relocation from water,
desert

21. Climate change on campus
Power
●Change outsourcing
●On-campus installations
●R&D
●What is green
computing?

22. Climate change on campus
● Food
● Green spaces?
● Transport

23. https://archive.curbed.com/2017/8/9/16059384/vertical-forest-italy-climate-change

25. Academic travel?

26. • All
webinars?
• HyFlex
meetings?
But:
• Inequalities
• Resistance

27. Question:
What would green
computing look like at your
institution - more or less?
And who would lead the
charge for it?

28. 2. Academic Research

29. Disciplines and
interdisciplinarity
●STEM
●Social sciences
●Arts and humanities

30. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41
467-019-08540-3

31. ●Fields expand, contract
●New domains, disciplines
●Interdisciplinarity
●Political challenges within
institutions

32. How to support research?
• Preserve endangered
sites, materials
• Deal with external
political pressures

33. Question:
How would you support
digitizing your
institution’s research
enterprise?

34. 3. Teaching

35. Teaching: curricula
●Reflect research?
●Decolonizing classes
●New programs, colleges,
schools

36. Teaching: pedagogies
●Project based learning
●Inquiry based
●Simulations/gaming
●Collective work,
assessment

37. Teaching: structures
●Changing populations
Already changing +
climate experience

39. Question:
How quickly, and how far,
can you scale up online
learning at your institution?

40. Question:
How might you support new
pedagogies for a curriculum
increasingly focused on the
climate crisis?

41. Question:
What does social justice look
like in educational
technology during the
climate crisis?

42. 4. Community relations

43. Town-gown
●Work with local efforts?
●Support climate migrants on
site?
●Economic development
●Climate justice, local

44. Town-gown
Politics
●New policies imposed
●Effects of climate change

45. Town-gown
Economics
●Property values skew
●Tax policies

46. Question:
How might you respond to
climate pressure from the
local community, either pro-
or anti-climate action?

47. 5. Academia in the world

48. Role of academia in the crisis
Open questions:
●Public intellectuals?
●Preserve other fields in crisis?
●Lead mitigation?
●Support climate migrants online?
●Global alliances?

49. Respond to changing ideas in the
world
●New economics (Donut, Circular)
●Emergency authorities
●Decolonization
●Geoengineering

50. Climate justice

52. Question:
How does ed tech change at
your campus if your society
shifts to a circular or no-
growth economy?

53. 6. What next?

54. COVID lessons
•A glimpse of cutting
back emissions
•Dry run for climate
change
•Connect social justice

55. What to do next
Rethink and redesign
●Research
●Teaching
●Community
●World stage

56. Or not
●Reserve our energies for
efforts with bigger impact
●Academics overburdened
●Autonomy from politics
●Anti-academic “

57. What to do next
●Plan strategically
●Prepare for short and long
change
●Democratic, just
participation
●Rethink higher education

58. https://www.yesmagazine.org/environment/2021/01/28/climate-change-sustainable-solarpunk

59. Universities on Fire

60. http://futureofeducation.us/
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