AGENDA
Sustainability Literacy: Faculty, Staff, and Students as Agents of Change
Day 1 – February 12th, 2020
*please note that all activities on the 12th will occur in the Stern Center Ballroom
8:45-9:10 am Stern Center Ballroom, 4th Floor: arrival and set-up of displays
9:10-9:30 am — Welcome from the College of Charleston
9:30-10:50 am — South Carolina panel and round table, followed by open discussion
Participants: Brian Fisher, Weston Dripps, Christine Von Kolnitz, Grace Kzamierski
10:50-11:10 am Break
11:10-11:30 am Teaching Sustainability and Making it Stick? — Keith McDade
11:30-11:50 am Sustainability and Equity: the Powerful Role of Educators — Heather Cunningham
11:50-12:10 pm What Do We Know, Think, and Do with Respect to Sustainability? One Campus’ Efforts to Assess Sustainability Literacy, Attitudes and Behaviors — Alice Mulder
Discussion
12:30-1:30 pm Working Lunch, Stern Center Ballroom
1:30-1:50 pm Accelerating Mutually Beneficial Outcomes: A Partnership Between University of Richmond International Education and the Office for Sustainability—Cassandra Troy and Rob Andrejewski
1:50-2:10 pm Fostering and Measuring Sustainability Literacy through a College-level Interdisciplinary Course—Srinivasan Raghavan and Christine Li
2:10- 2:30 Teaching Business & Sustainability through Alignment with SDGs — Dann Sklarew & Ira Feldman
2:30 – 2:50 pm Networking Break + Coffee, Stern Center Ballroom
2:50-3:10 pm Assessing Students’ Systems and Collaborative Thinking in a Sustainability Science Curriculum — Matthew Cohen, Geoffrey Habron, Karen Allen, Courtney Quinn
3:10-3:30 pm Individual Sustainability Literacy and the Organizational Sustainability Learning in HEIs: How do they Connect? — Liguang Liu
3:30-3:50pm Integrating Sustainability Literacy into the Masters of Public Administration Curriculum — Kirsten Kinzer
Discussion
4:00-5:00 pm break, campus tour of sustainability operations (optional sign up*)
*email Todd LeVasseur at levasseurtj@cofc.edu if you want to participate on the tour
5:00-6:00 pm Reception, Stern Center Ballroom
6:00pm onwards – symposium is done for the day; dinner on your own and exploration of Charleston
DAY 2 – February 13th, 2020
*Please note the morning session will occur in the Stern Center Ballroom
8:50-9:10 am — Welcome to Day 2
9:10-10:20 am — SHES Roundtable Presentations and Discussion —
Michael Reiter (chair), Paul Barresi, Kimberly Reiter
NOTE: 10 min break, change rooms
Breakout 1
10:30-12:30 pm — Stern Center Room 205, 20 minutes per talk
The Role of Economic Literacy in Fostering Sustainability: The Opportunity in the Teaching of Principles in Economics — Madhavi Venkatesan and Natasha Keidl
Studio Waste Management in the School of Design — Seyeon Lee, Rebecca Kelly, Meriel Stokoe, Louise Manfredi
Green Campus Initiatives as Sustainable Development Dissemination at HEIs: A Comparative Study About Student’s Opinion — João Ribeiro, Lenoi Hoeckesfeld, Issa Berchin, Jacir Favretto, Rodgrigo Barichello, Leonardo Secchi, José Guerra
Sustainability Internship Programs: Strategies for Creating Student Ambassadors for Sustainability — Hongor Batbold
Discussion
Breakout 2
10:30-12:30 pm — Stern Ballroom, 20 minutes per talk
Collaborative Climate Education: Engaging Educators and Students Through Nationwide Initiatives — Eban Goodstein
Exploring Undergraduate Attainment of Sustainability Competencies —
Vanessa Levesque
Climate Literacy–Imperative Competencies for Tomorrow’s Engineers —
Jan DeWaters and Susan Powers
How Can Teaching Toolkits Advance Breadth and Depth in Sustainability Education? Lessons from a Technological University — Rebecca Watts Hull
Discussion
12:30-1:40 pm — Lunch + Discussion, Stern Center Ballroom
Breakout 3
1:40-3:00 pm — Stern Center Room 205, 20 minutes per talk
Encouraging Responsible Consumption/Resources: Teaching a Bio-economy Course in Colombia-Rojas — Héctor Heraldo Rojas-Jimenez, Angie Contreras, Valeria Ruiz Vargas and Alberto Paucar-Caceres
Educating Sustainability Through Paper Recycling in a Beneficient Institution: A Sustainability Awareness Project into an Environmental Park in South Brazil — Evanisa Reginato, Ricardo Melo, Thais Rossetto, Jhulia Kuhn, Rodrigo Melo, Guilherme Zanotto Evanisa Reginato, Ricardo Melo, Thais Rossetto, Jhulia Kuhn, Rodrigo Melo
Academic Responsibility in Social Environmental Education and Production of Sustainable Practices — Evanisa Reginato, Ricardo Melo, Thais Rossetto, Jhulia Kuhn, Rodrigo Melo, Guilherme Zanotto
Discussion
Breakout 4
1:40-3:00 pm — Stern Ballroom, 20 minutes per talk
Innovations in SDG Integration and Reporting at the University of South Florida — Brooke Hansen, Peter Stiling, Whitney Fung
Funding Agents of Change on Campus: A Map of Opportunities to Engage SDG in the Curriculum – Weston Dripps, Courtney Quinn and John Quinn
PIEER Internship: Self-reflection and Community Engagement to Build Bridges — Catherine Zeman and Dionna Williams
Discussion
Stern Ballroom
3:40-4:30 pm — Presentation and Open discussion: Faculty Challenges and Needs
Tina Evans & Peter Soyka
4:30-4:40 pm—Closing Remarks
Todd LeVasseur & Ira Feldman
4:40 pm—Symposium Ends
For those staying until Friday:
7:00-9:00pm–Wes Jackson, free and open CofC campus talk