Faculty Advisory Network

About

Faculty whose research, teaching, and service touch on at least one of the three pillars of sustainability – social, economic, and environmental aspects of sustainable systems – make up this network.

Purpose

Integrating sustainability in teaching, curriculum development, service learning, and faculty research by creating a network of faculty experts on campus in a collaborative environment.

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THE FACULTY ADVISORY NETWORK ON SUSTAINABILITY

  • Bring together a broad range of interdisciplinary expertise
  • Bring together a broad range of faculty to participate and engage with the RCE North Texas
  • Curriculum development effort that seeks to foster an invigorated intellectual community to address global issues and local sustainability challenges
  • Incorporate sustainability in the Service Learning Projects
  • Foster collaboration on research and funding/grants
  • Foster collaboration on projects in partnerships with other organization.
  • Development of core sustainability-focused competencies and capacities delivered through courses, majors, minors, certifications, research, and graduate degrees in sustainability.
  • Organize workshops, guest speakers & public lectures series
  • Create and maintain an inventory of Sustainability Courses and Programs
  • Capstone projects with Graduate students

Faculty Advisory Network on Sustainability

Workshop Day 1

Workshop Day 2

FELLOWSHIPS

Faculty Cohort

Each summer, faculty applicants from all units and departments of the University are accepted for a program that offers multi-disciplinary brainstorming around sustainability issues, experiential learning about place, and pedagogical exercises designed to help faculty develop new courses or new course modules for existing courses. Participants commit to:

  • A 2-day workshop at the end of May/first week of June led by the ISGI, Chair of the network and 1 or 2 participants from previous years. The workshop will include presentations by people drawn from the faculty and the community on issues of sustainability, environment, and curriculum.
  • Independent work over the summer to prepare new course materials culminates in a new syllabus and a statement from participants outlining how the workshop affected their plans for their new course and why. (Faculty members are paid a stipend when they turn in these materials.)
  • A follow-up lunch meeting a year later in March provides an opportunity to discuss how the new courses went and the impact of the project on professional perspectives, teaching methods and research practices. The faculty who received Fellowships will present their work and findings, and share insights on lessons learners and challenges.

Fall 2022 Cohort

Fall 2022 Workshop Agenda

FANS 2021 Workshop Agenda June 3-4

FANS 2021 Cohort

2022 FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED TO

2021 FACULTY FELLOWSHIPS AWARDED TO

  • Andrew Milson, Department of History- GEOG 2302 – Human Geography
  • Karen Magruder, School of Social Work-SOCW 3310- Environmental Justice & Green Social Work and SOCW 5301- Human Behavior and the Social Environment
  • Jacqueline Fay, Department of English-ENGL 6370 Sinuous Histories
  • Felicia Bertch, Department of Theatre Arts- 4311: Vocal Performance III: Shakespeare & Verse and THEA 4340: Movement Performance II: Physical Theatre
  • Chyng-yang Jang, Department of Communications-CTEC 4309 Internet Marketing Communications
  • Ritu Khanduri, Department of Sociology and Anthropology-ANTH 3345-001/ COMM 3345-001-Visualizing Cultures

Resources

National Academies Report on Strengthening Programs and Curricula STARS Technical Manual UN Sustainable Development Goals FANS 2021 Cohort Experience

FANS Organization

Interested?

For joining the network, please contact Meghna Tare.
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