Sustainability

Curriculum Development Grants:

CSE supports curriculum development projects that advance sustainability or climate change learning outcomes in new and revised courses, co-curricular activities, and extra-curricular activities, and that require more resources than are normally available. Examples of teaching projects that have high resource needs include incorporating active learning pedagogies such as living laboratory, service learning, community-based research and place-based learning; new technology; and substantial curricular changes and innovation.  

Awards of up to $3000 are available for teaching projects.

Professional Development Grants:
 
Professional development projects enhance or develop new knowledge, expertise or skills that will enable the recipient to advance sustainability or climate change related teaching, research, creativity and civic engagement.  Stipends are not paid for professional development projects.
 
Awards of up to $3000 are available for professional development projects to support travel, materials, training opportunities, and other costs.
 
Student Faculty Research (SFR) Project Grants:
 
Projects in any discipline that engage a student and faculty member as co-investigators or co-creators in a significant, collaborative research activity, scholarly project, or creative work to advance understanding of sustainability or climate change. The project should aim to result in a peer-reviewed publication, presentation, exhibition, performance or other scholarly output. Both the student and faculty role must be substantial at every stage of the project. Projects normally take place in the summer when there is enough time for students and faculty to focus in a concentrated way on a shared project. They usually last 8 weeks, but in some circumstances may be shorter.
 
Awards of up to $10,000 are available for student/faculty projects.
 
Research Assistantships:
 
Research assistantships enable faculty members to hire individual students to assist in faculty scholarly and creative research in areas related to sustainability and climate change. Student research assistants have less responsibility than a co-investigator or co-creator in a student/faculty project and perform tasks that are largely defined and closely supervised by the faculty member.   
 
Awards of up to $3000 are available for summer research assistantships and $1600 for assistantships during the academic year. Faculty supervisors of research assistants are not eligible for a stipend.
 
Student Travel:

Faculty and other staff may apply for funds for students to attend an event that provides a significant learning experience related to sustainability or climate change and helps advance co-curricular programs of the college (e.g. the college farm, community garden, renewable energy on campus, and climate action plan). This can include, for example, presentation of work at a professional conference, attendance of a workshop, or participation in a service learning activity. Students are expected to produce a reflective work that explains how they and the college benefited from attendance of the event.
Generally, awards are limited to the lesser of $200 per student or half the estimated cost of attending the event.