Leadership for Sustainability-Sheridan College
Key learnings:
- Establishment of a common platform is essential to organization change.
- Focus on solving 'sustainability' challenges through cross-departmental representation for greater engagement.
- Focus on curriculum infusion across faculties
- Establish a 'systems' view of the entire initiative
- Establish an organizational structure.
Key process elements:
- Institutional Leadership Council for Sustainability
- Faculty Development for Curriculum infusion
- 30 year Energy & Climate Planning
- National Climate Partnership Foundations
Success looks like:
- Institutional Sustainability Assessment and Metrics
- Business Operations (all functional groups)
- Research Initiatives (3 research initiatives launched)
- Curriculum Initiatives (initiatives launched in all faculties)
- Partnership Development (new partnerships across the institute)
Help needed:
- Integrating UTheory within an institutional change initiative
- Integration of UTheory and The Natural Step concepts
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Submitted by Elaine Hanson
Education
Oakville, Ontario, Canada
Moderated by Elaine Hanson
Project leader:
Elaine Hanson
Organization:
Sheridan Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Big idea:
Sustainability: infusing sustainability across curriculum and research through faculty development. The design of a sustainable interfaces between the natural environment and the built or designed environment built on a common set of principles (Robert, 2002).
