For Faculty

Dear Faculty Colleagues,

Regardless of your academic discipline, you have the potential to help grow students’ climate literacy and climate response-ability, which we define as the capacity to contribute to positive climate actions in our professions and our communities. Here are key opportunities to consider:

• Climate Studies Course Attribute – apply to have your climate related course tagged in the Bulletin and included in the forthcoming, interdisciplinary Climate Studies minor
• Climate Course (Re)Design Institute – participate in this multi-day professional development program, held in partnership with CETLSS
• Climate Solutions Video Institute – participate in this multi-day professional development program focused on enhancing climate teaching through video production
• Climate Stories Collaborative – join this teaching and learning community aimed at growing our capacity to use creative expression to better understand and communicate about climate change and climate solutions
• QEP Co-Curricular & Engagement Grants – apply for funding to implement beyond-the-classroom programs that advance students’ climate literacy and response-ability. 
• QEP Innovative Teaching Grants – apply for funding to implement to implement within-the-classroom programs that advance students’ climate literacy and response-ability.
• Resources for Climate Teaching & Learning – explore a collection of resources that we think are particularly helpful for teaching and learning about climate change.
• Events – stay tuned to our events page for upcoming climate learning opportunities to participate in and to share with your students.

QEP Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs)
All of the Pathways to Resilience QEP’s activities focus on the following SLOs, which are drawn from App State’s General Education Program:

• Global Self-Awareness: Students will evaluate the effect of human agency on social, cultural, and natural environments.
• Systemic Drivers of Global Change: Students will evaluate systemic factors that produce local and global disparities and environmental problems in order to advocate for appropriate responses.
• Consequences of Global Change: Students will evaluate the effects of global change on local environments.
• Response-Ability: Students will evaluate the effects of social, economic, and environmental problems on communities and cultivate a capacity to actively respond to these challenges.

Ideas for Pathways to Resilience Co-Curricular Activities

Do you have an idea for a climate change focused speaker, program, or event? Share your idea(s) by taking a few minutes to complete this Google form.

Are you interested in contributing to student learning about climate change by serving as a faculty representative on our QEP Implementation Committee? Email QEP Director Dr. Shea Tuberty (tubertysr@appstate.edu) to indicate your interest!