ICSAC
International Center For Sustainability Across the Curriculum
2019
INTRODUCTION
PARTICIPANTS
PRESENTERS
FACILITATORS
COMMENTS
Held at the Embassy Suites by Hilton at the McAllen Convention Center, McAllen , TX
SUGGESTIONS
ICSAC 2019
The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (UTRGV), in partnership with the Association for Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE), hosted an intensive twoday faculty development program entitled the International Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum (ICSAC) Conference. Growing out of our university’s successful Project Sin Fronteras, the program has a common goal that brings together faculty from all fields, allowing for an exchange of ideas nurturing an enriching collaborative atmosphere. This interdisciplinary exercise helps faculty to explore the shifts in pedagogy
needed to incorporate sustainability concepts, problems, or solutions into new or existing courses. Drawn from experienced faculty and professionals on issues of sustainability, environment, and curriculum, these instructional materials, activities, and presentations will support the education for sustainable development in higher education. International faculty, and faculty from across the nation, were invited to join local, state, national, and global participants, providing international experiences while opening a range of collaborative and networking opportunities for all.
This report provides a synopsis of the 2019 conference and results from the survey post conference.
PARTICIPANTS
UTRGV TOTAL ICSAC PARTICIPANTS
ATTENDEES BY TYPE
Attendees
UTRGV Speakers
THE CONFERENCE WAS HELD AT THE EMBASSY SUITES BY HILTON MCALLEN CONVENTION CENTER IN MCALLEN, TEXAS.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DAY 2
DR. ROBERT FRANCO
8:00 AM . Continental Breakfast
8:30 AM . Welcome Back Remarks
Dr. Parwinder Grewal | Executive Vice President for Research, Graduate Studies, and New Program Development Development disciplines through understanding of the interdependence.
For 30 years, Dr. Robert Franco has been an ecological and demographic anthropologist focusing on contemporary Hawaiian, Samoan, and Pacific Islander educational, employment, health, environmental, climate, and cultural issues. He has published scholarly and policy research on Samoan political and cultural change, the meaning and management of water in ancient Hawai’i and sociocultural factors affecting Pacific tuna fisheries. In 2009, he consulted with a leading Samoan chief and the American Samoa Humanities Council on the editing and publication of the territory’s first written history, a required 9th grade textbook. He currently serves as the Director of Institutional Effectiveness at Kapi’olani Community College, University of Hawaii. The college bears the name of Queen Julia Kapi’olani, the penultimate female monarch of the sovereign nation of Hawai’i. He takes lead responsibility for campus strategic and long-term planning, grants, writing and development, institutional research, assessment, evaluation, and accreditation. He has garnered multi-millions of dollars in grants from the Corporation for National and Community Service, U.S. Department of Education (Title III, International Education), HUD and the National Science Foundation for the campus and UH system. He has written successful grants to the Teagle and Keck Foundations. He also overseas the Kapi’olani Service and Sustainability Learning program. In March 2019, Dr. Franco received the Campus Compact Western Region “Advancing the Field Distinguished Leadership Award” for campuscommunity and civic engagement.
GUEST SPEAKER
DR. MARIA V. BOCCALANDRO
Maria Boccalandro is the Sustainability and Advancement Director of the Advancement Office, Cedar Valley College (CVC). Providing leadership to a multidisciplinary team outreach through the Sustainable Communities Institute (SCI), a multidimensional global institution. She has been appointed to serve on the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) Implementation Liaison Leadership Circle. A group of champions who have implemented innovative sustainability and climate action strategies on their campuses to overcome challenges and create an institutional framework to advance their community towards a sustainable future.
INSTRUCTIONAL FACILITATOR
DR. AMY HAY
9:00 AM . Aligning Ideas, Instruction and Assessment
Developing relationships across disciplines, and institutional departments is an interdisciplinary approach to learning that covers the integral social, economic and environmental dimensions of the formal and informal curriculum. Participants have this concentrated time to get feedback and help each other complete elements of a syllabus to include student learning outcomes.
10:30 AM . Coffee Break
10:45 AM . Stories of Successful Implementation in Education for Sustainable Development
Dr. Jongmin Kim | Maria Leonard, MBA | Pamela Herring
Dr. Maysam Pournik 11:45 AM .
Mr. Alan Earhart | Director, International Programs and Partnerships
12:00 PM . Lunch & Guest Speaker
Dr. Maria Boccalandro | Sustainability and Advancement Director at Cedar Valley College
Dr. Christopher Gabler | Assistant Professor at UTRGV School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences
2:45 PM . Dr. Mark Kaswan | Strategic Planning Steering Committee sustainability into process to redesign The process activities.
Engagement & Deptartment of
Dr. Amy Hay, is an associate professor of history at UTRGV. Hay’s research interests focus on medicine and the environment, women and gender, and activism and public policy. She has published on the Love Canal chemical disaster, scientists investigating the ecological effects of Agent Orange, and on the influence Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had on three western women’s environmental activism. Her completed manuscript, The Defoliation of America, is currently under review at the University of Pittsburgh Press.
1:30 PM . Making it Happen
Next steps in getting your class ready with the integration of Sustainability Project Based Learning | Instructional Design Checklist | Overview of Useful Resources & Glossary of Terms
2:30 PM . Break 3:30 PM . Closing Remarks | Certificates | Photos & Interviews 3:00 PM . Building Community | Contributing Highlights & Recognition
PRESENTERS
Mr. Steven Villarreal Director of Sales | Embassy Suites by Hilton Mcallen Convention Center
Dr. John H. Krouse Executive VP | UTRGV’s Health Affairs Dean | UTRGV’s School of Medicinre
Dr. Robert Franco Director of Institutional Effectivness
Kapi’olani Community College, University of Hawaii
Dr. Pierre Lu Interim Director | UTRGV’s Office of Engaged Scholarship & Learning
Maysam Pournik Assitant Professor | UTRGV’s Department of Mechanical Engineering
Dr. Maria Boccalandro Sustainability and Advancement Director Dallas County Community College District
Dr. Doris Mendiola Data and Research Manager UTRGV’s Division of Governmental and Community Relations
Dr. Amy Hay Associate Professor UTRGV’s Department of History
Marianella Franklin Chief Sustainability Officer UTRGV’s Office For Sustainability
Alan Earhart Director | UTRGV’s Office of International Programs and Partnerships
Christopher
Assistant Professor | UTRGV’s School of Earth, Environmental, and Marine Sciences
Mr.
Dr.
Dr.
Gabler
Pamela Herring
Dr. Mark J. Kaswan Associate Professor | UTRGV Department of Political Sciences
Dr. Noe Vargas Hernandez Assitant Professor | UTRGV Department of Mechanical Engineering
Maria Leonard Lecturer I | UTRGV Department of Management
Dr. Jongmin Kim Assistant Professor | UTRGV Department of Civil Engineering
Mr. Paul Sharpe UTRGV’s Dean of Libraries
COMMENTS
PLEASE DESCRIBE ANY WORKSHOP COMPONENTS OR ACTIVITIES THAT WORKEDFORYOU,ANDWHY.
“IT WAS A MEANINGFUL EXPERIENCE. I WAS ABLE TO WORK WITH LIKE MINDED PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT PLACES AND DEPARTMENTS. NETWORKING IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR SUSTAINABILITY IT REQUIRES PARTNERSHIPS, COLLABORATION AND COLLECTIVE EFFORTS ”
“IT WAS VERY HELPFUL, I WAS ABLE TO NETWORK AND GET TO KNOW PROFESSORS FROM DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AND WORKING TOGETHER AS TEAMS ALLOWED US TO GET TO KNOW EACHOTHER MORE IN SUSTAINABILITY”
“THE SEATING ARRANGEMENTS WITH FACULTY MEMBERS FROM DIFFERENT DISCIPLINES HELPED ME TO SEE THE BIGGER PICTURE”
“THE MATERIAL PROVIDED AND THE NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES WERE EXCELLENT!”
“I WAS EXPECTING A VERY TRANSFORMATIVE AND ENERGETIC TWO DAYS, AND THATS WHAT I GOT.”
“VERY WELL PLANNED AND ORGANIZED; CONTENT GREAT”
FACULTY MEMBERS WHO HAVE PREVIOUSLY ATTENDED THE SUSTAINABILITY WORKSHOP SHOULD BE INVITED SO THAT THEY CAN DEMONSTRATE HOW INCORPORATING SUSTAINABILITY CONCEPTS IN THEIR COURSE HAS BEEN RECEIVED BY STUDENTS.
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THE REAL GOAL HERE IS TO BUILD RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FACULTY SO THAT THE CURRICULUM IS VISIBLE ENOUGH FOR STUDENTS TO SEE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
SPEAKERS CAN PROVIDE STUDENTS SUCCESSES IN SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVES ACROSS CAMPUS AND THEIR COMMUNITIES
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