A Project of the UNH Sustainability Academy Culture and Sustainability Initiative (CAS)

The UNH Sustainability Academy invites proposals from UNH College of Liberal Arts (COLA) faculty members interested in developing and implementing programming that brings a liberal arts perspective to sustainability.

Proposals may be submitted as individuals or groups, and interdisciplinary proposals involving collaboration between departments and offices that help to expand the scope and impact of the proposed program will be given special consideration.

Sustainability Academy Faculty Fellows and staff will select awardees.

We offer support in two areas:

Course development

• Three course development awards of $3K each for courses offered in the 2012-13 academic year: each awardee will receive $2K in course development funding followed by $1K in implementation during the semester in which the course is offered.
• Proposals and syllabi due Oct 1 for the following year. MORE INFORMATION AND WEBFORM
• For the development of Humanities courses that may be cross-listed with the proposed UNH Sustainability Dual Major (SDM). This is an opportunity for faculty in COLA to help highlight the humanities contributions to sustainability and to benefit from increased exchange with our colleagues in the natural, social and health sciences, as well as in engineering.
• NOTE: awards have been made for AY12-13. Proposals submitted post 11/1/11 will be considered for AY13-14.

AY12-13 Awardees

• Susan Curry of Languages, Literatures and Cultures (Classics):  “Sustaining Ancient Rome: The Ecological Costs of Empire”
• Courtney Marshall of English and Women’s Studies: “Race, Gender and Environmental Justice”
• Joelle Ryan of Women’s Studies: “The Global Sex Industry: Exploring Transational Feminism, Ecocriticism and Sex Worker Rights”

Co-curricular programming

• Awards of up to $1,000 available beginning September 15.
• Proposals accepted on a rolling basis. MORE INFORMATION AND WEBFORM
• For the development and implementation of programming that brings a liberal arts perspective to sustainability. Proposals submitted should pertain to issues that communicate the actual and/or potential relationships between the liberal arts and sustainability.

For more information, please contact Sara Cleaves (862-0172) and Elisabeth Farrell (862-5040) of the Sustainability Academy.