Research & Curriculum

In order to foster an educational environment in which students, faculty, staff, and administration are jointly engaged in developing a better ecological understanding of our place in the local and global environment, courses and research should be adjusted to incorporate the concept and practice of sustainability.  A revitalization of interdisciplinary curriculum is necessary rather than organizing courses into silo academic departments. 

In the Chronicle of Higher Education article titled “Sustainability: the Ultimate Liberal Art” the  role is clearly expressed for Higher education to prepare students for generating a more just, equitable, and sustainable society;

Higher education will need to come up with new energy sources, cleaner kinds of products, better designs for cities, and more effective    ways of dealing with social problems if civilization is going to move ahead...  Universities should assume the role they took in winning the   space race and in waging the war on cancer… and take on sustainability as their next great challenge.  (7-8)

As so much of human life impacts the world around us, there are sustainability opportunities in almost everything we do and study!  There is no “one-size-fits-all” sustainability curriculum to solve the world’s problems.

"Stellar" campus example: