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Application for Sustainability Course Status
An application for sustainability course status was recently approved by the Curriculum Committee. Faculty may now apply to have their course(s) officially considered a sustainability-focused course. Classes that are approved will be designated as sustainability courses in the college catalogue. If you are interested in having your class obtain the sustainability-focused designation, fill out form (.doc) and send it to the Sustainability and Learning Committee Coordinator, Susie Cousar, cousars@lanecc.edu. The Sustainability and Learning Committee review the document and will either approve the course or will provide suggestions to the submitter on ways to modify the course in order to obtain approval.

If you have questions about this sustainability focused course approval process, please contact the Sustainablity and Learning Committee Coordinator, Susie Cousar (ext. 5271)

Sustainability Infusion Project
In order to solve pressing environmental and social problems such as climate change and global poverty, today’s students must be provided with a comprehensive foundation of sustainability concepts. In order to gain this foundation, students need to learn about sustainability from the perspective of many different disciplines. However, most colleges and universities are not keeping pace with these educational needs. According to the National Wildlife Federation’s Campus Environment Report 2008, “between the years 2001 and 2008, the amount of sustainability-related education offered on college campuses did not increase and may have even declined.” Lane’s Sustainability Infusion Project seeks to stem the ebbing tide of education for sustainability by providing a mechanism to infuse sustainability across Lane’s entire curriculum.

In spring 2008, the college received an EPA Environmental Education Grant to begin this project. The EPA grant provided funds for Lane to develop and offer a four hour course to train faculty to train other faculty to infuse sustainability into curriculum. The training was developed using the models taught at the Sustainability across the Curriculum Leadership Workshops that are offered by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education. In 2007, Lane sent a faculty member to this Workshop with the intent of developing this Sustainability Infusion Project.

Since receiving the EPA award, Lane has trained approximately 17 faculty and will continue to train more throughout the year in 2009. Lane’s plan is have 220 faculty trained by the end of the 2009 school year.

If you are interested in attending a sustainability infusion training, please contact Jennifer Hayward (ext. 5594).

List of active Sustainability and Learning Committee Projects**

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