Faculty Development

UW Oshkosh has a long tradition of faculty colleges to provide opportunities for faculty to teach faculty about sustainability. The Winnebago Project is the name for this two-day training and curriculum development effort.

Winnebago Project

Faculty is provided stipends upon completion and implementation of their curriculum projects. Since May 2008, classes of 10-12 faculty members participated in workshops about infusing sustainability into curriculums in all four colleges.

Who teaches the course?

Four faculty have been trained as sustainable curriculum leaders by attending the Sustainability Across the Curriculum Leadership Workshop Series offered by the Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education:

• David Barnhill, English and environmental studies
• Jim Feldman, environmental studies and history
• Christine Roth, English
• Stephanie Spehar, anthropology

Course Resources

• What is Sustainability?
• Expanding Sustainability
• Information and Transformation
• Sustainability in Sociology Courses
• Photo Elicitation in the Study of Sustainability
• Cleaning Up the Lower Fox River

Organizations Supporting Sustainability in the College Curriculum

• Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education (AASHE)
• Campus Ecology Program of the National Wildlife Federation
• Earth Charter
• Second Nature
• U.S. Partnership for Education for Sustainable Development
• United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development
• University Leaders for a Sustainable Future (ULSF)