Dialogues on Teaching Sustainability: Where Music Meets Medicine, Engineering Meets Politics, the Humanities Meet Business, etc.
Convened twice per year, Provost’s Seminars on Teaching provide an opportunity for lively and substantive dialogue about a wide range of teaching and learning issues campus wide, across disciplinary boundaries. The Spring 2010 Seminar on teaching about sustainability included keynote addresses by Don Scavia, Special Counsel to the President for Sustainability and Graham Family Professor of Environmental Sustainability, and Lydia McMullen-Laird, Undergraduate Student in the Ford School of Public Policy, as well as a poster fair, concurrent sessions, and roundtable discussions featuring diverse faculty approaches to teaching about sustainability.
Index 
- The U-M Presidential Sustainability Initiative
- Grants For Teaching Sustainability
- Provost's Seminar:
- Resources for Teaching About Sustainability
The U-M Presidential Sustainability Initiative
Grants For Teaching Sustainability:
Course Design, Curriculum Reform, and Assessment of Student Learning
CRLT Grants for Teaching
Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute
Provost's Seminar Plenary Session Materials
- Agenda
- Keynote Address - Don Scavia- Mapping the Terrain: The Role of Teaching in U-M's Sustainability Initiative
- Keynote Address - Lydia McMullen-Laird - Why is Sustainability Important to U-M Students?
Poster Session: Spotlight on Diverse Faculty Approaches to Teaching Sustainability
Faculty Presentations: Teaching Strategies for Actively Engaging Students In Sustainability Issues
| Presenter | Unit | Session Title |
| James Crowfoot | Michigan Community Scholars, LSA School of Natural Resources and Environment | Environment, Religions, Spirituality and Sustainability: Facilitating Discussions on Contested Viewpoints |
| Tom Gladwin | Ross School of Business | Teaching Systems Thinking: Combining Instructional Technology and Role Playing To Simulate Complex Problems and Potential Solutions |
| Larissa Larsen | Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning | Case Studies with Vexing Trade-Offs: Developing Critical Thinking Skills Through Comparative Analysis |
| Lorelle Meadows | College of Engineering | Socially Relevant Professional Practice: Problem Solving and Ethical Decision Making Through Service Learning |
| Joan Nassauer | Landscape Architecture School of Natural Resources and Environment | Using Case-Based Pedagogies to Provoke Interdisciplinary Innovations |
| Maria Rodriguez | Residential College and English Language Institute, LSA | Sustainability in the Humanities: Self-Awareness through Service Learning in Migrant Communities |
| Michael Shriberg | Program in the Environment, LSA | Action-Based Learning: Exploring the Campus as a Laboratory for Learning About Sustainability |
| Jeffrey Steiger | Center for Research on Learning and Teaching | Theatre of the Oppressed: Facilitating Difficult Dialogues with Interactive Theatre and Role Playing |
| Robert Swedberg | School of Music, Theatre and Dance | The Green Opera: Infusing Sustainability into Disciplinary Training and Studio Courses |
Resources for Teaching About Sustainability
- AASHE: Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
- Graham Environmental Sustainability Institute Databases for U-M Degree Programs and Courses on Sustainability
- LSA Theme Semester, Winter 2011: Water
- McNamara, K.H. (2010). Fostering sustainability in higher education: a mixed methods study of transformative leadership and change strategies. Environmental Practice 12:48–58.
- Wright, S.J., Habit, E., Adlerstein, S., Parra, O. & J.D. Semrau. (2009). Graham Scholars Program: sustainability education through an interdisciplinary international case study. Sustainability Science 4:29–36.