Aspirational Goal: Establish UNL as a leader in innovative educational experiences that fosters and promotes a culture of sustainability and resilience within the UNL and broader community.
Long Term Objectives
Develop a comprehensive “sustainability and resilience across the curriculum” program at UNL in which all students can demonstrate the application of these concepts to their academic discipline of choice.
Standard practice to include sustainability relevant language for part of UNL faculty job descriptions.
All students and faculty know that sustainability and resilience are an integral part of the UNL culture.
Short Term Objectives
Formal Education
Implement a 'Sustainability and Resilience in the Curriculum Summit'.
Create an annually delivered, two-tiered Sustainability Infusion into the Curriculum workshop series for faculty in collaboration with the Center for Transformative Teaching.
Create a Sustainability Fellows and Ambassadors program.
Establish a Multi-College Curriculum and Academic Standards committee to: 1) develop a rubric for assessing the sustainability level of individual courses per AASHE requirements; and 2) increase and improve the teaching and learning of sustainability and resilience.
Establish a multi-college Sustainability Solutions major.
Informal Education
Collaborate with the Center for Civic Engagement and Office of Entrepreneurship in the College of Business to create an undergraduate Sustainability Certificate.
A minimum of three Recognized Student Organizations (currently not funded) per year will run active sustainability or resilience-related projects funded by the ASUN Green Fund.
Collaborate with Cooperative Extension to create an undergraduate sustainability ambassadors program to foster the development of the next generation of educators for the community at large.
Current Initiatives
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