STUDENT CENTER SPOTLIGHT
Glass Educator & Student Environmental Survey by Paige Morris & Michael Saroka, GAS Education Committee As the world population continues to grow, we now realize that our impact on the environment will need to be part of our everyday thinking. Part of this new way of thinking will be the re-evaluation of traditional practices and current methodologies. Like all previous intentional social pivoting and redirection of culture, the change will start with education: the education of the community, the education of the industries, and the education of the up-and-coming generation. This education will take shape in modeling behavior, it will come from teaching skills and giving tools to people to enact positive change, and it will come from encouraging the exploration of knowledge to compound our ability to shape that change. This gives educators and students a unique position to be the driving force to move society to where it needs to go. By evaluating where we are today, we can see where we need to be tomorrow. METHODOLOGY: We surveyed both educators and students, receiving 13 responses in total from universities and programs across the globe. Respondents self-identified as students (53.8%), faculty (23.1%), and educators (23.1%).
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GASNEWS
FALL 2020
VOLUME 34, ISSUE 4
