Workshop Program

The workshop will take place in the The Carrie Meek-James N. Eaton, Sr. Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum

Thursday, October 26

Pre-Workshop Opportunity:

4:00 - 4:45PM - Brandon Jones NSF Geosciences Program Director

'GEO Education & Diversity: An Overview'

Workshop Begins

5:00-6:30 PM – Welcome, Icebreaker and Dinner

Richard Gragg & John Warford, InTeGrate HBCU Geosciences Working Group
Icebreaker – Kabuya Bowens, EAT: Environmental ART-ACTION Topics

6:30-7:30 PM - Opening Plenary

Workshop Goals & Agenda
Kwasi Densu, FAMU Department of History and Political Science

'Principles for Sustainability in Action: Reflections on the FAMU Cuba Study Abroad Experience'

Friday, October 27

9:30-10:00 AM - Workshop Goals, Agenda, and Plan for the day: Richard Gragg and Cathy Manduca

Show Rationale for the Working Groups - The User-Friendly Guide to Putting Sustainability into Action

Rationale for the Working Groups - The User-Friendly Guide to Putting Sustainability into Action

Your input is requested, through small teams of working groups, around six themes that are to become the chapters in the User-Friendly Guide to Putting Sustainability into Action. Drawing from past successes and promising practices, each chapter represents concrete strategies that can be enacted at different levels (course to campus to community) and combined in unique ways in service to the overall purpose of empowering students to take action towards sustainability. The chapters consist of materials submitted prior to the workshop and components that will be written during the group sessions at the workshop.

In Session 1, each participant will contribute to a course-level working group. Two groups will develop strategies for teaching about socio-ecological systems: one from a social science perspective and the other from a natural science perspective, with an eye to supporting faculty from one disciplinary tradition in engaging with the other. These groups will be complemented by a third course-level group considering strategies for including off-campus/ community-based experiences in a wide range of courses.

In Session 2, participants contribute to program-level working groups. These groups will develop ideas for department-level (e.g., curricular), campus-level, and extracurricular programs, offering ideas and procedures to help readers develop a rich sustainability program.

Though these concepts are to be presented in chapters, a successful program will produce explicit links between course-level, department-level, and university-level efforts, thus creating a fully integrated program on sustainability that helps students thrive in exploring and understanding topics surrounding sustainability during a broad range of activities on and off campus. Where possible, we need your consideration to cross-reference different portions between the chapters in order to clearly outline connections between different programmatic levels, campus facilities and community connections, for the purpose of developing a holistic approach for readers to develop integrated sustainability activities, courses, and programs on their campus.

10:00 AM-12:00 PM Working Groups, Round 1 - Break out into 3 course-level groups: Hannah Scherer

Show Groups

Group 1 - Course level engagement with socio-ecological systems I - Addressing the issues from a social science lens (bring in natural sciences)

- Reginald Archer, Helen Brethauer-Gay , Clifton Brown , Edith Davis, Phyllis Gray-Ray , Jennifer Taylor, Sam X

Group 2 - Course level engagement with socio-ecological systems II - Addressing the issues from a natural science lens (bring in social sciences)

- Eda Garcia, Mintesinot Jiru, Michael Kiflai, Carla Lippet, Oghenekome Onokpise, Aavudai Anandhi Swamy, LaVerne Wells-Bowie, Dremal Worthen

Group 3 - Engaging students and community members in off-campus/ community-based experiences through courses

- Sundiata Ameh El, KP Bowens-Saffo, Kimberly Davis, Kwasi Densu, Bakari McClendon , Katherine Milla, Conchita Newman, Bruce Strouble

10:00-11:10 AM Groups Discuss and document:

30 minutes: What is current practice?

30 minutes: What are effective practices, essential elements, common pitfalls?

10 minutes: What are the challenges and opportunities in this area?

11:10-11:30 AM Reviewing and Commenting on draft pages; Whole group discussion

11:30 AM-12:00 PM Groups 1-3 reflect on feedback and refine their pages

12:00-2:00 PM Lunch Tour of FAMU

12:00-1:00 PM Lunch and Bruce Strouble and Bakari McClendon, FAMU Sustainability Institute

'Putting Sustainability Into Action at FAMU'

1:00-2:00 PM Tour of FAMU

2:00-4:30 PM Working Groups, Round 2 - Break out into 3 program-level groups: Gary Weissmann

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Group 4 - Coordinated efforts that cut across multiple courses in the same or different departments

- Reginald Archer, Kabuya Bowens-Saffo, Edith Davis, Kimberly Davis, Phyllis Gray-Ray, Conchita Newman, Oghenekome Onokpise, Aavudai Anandhi Swamy

Group 5 - Coordinated campus-level initiatives focused on the link between campus sustainability programs and the curriculum

- Eda Garcia, Clifton Brown, Michael Kiflai, Mintesinot Jiru, Bakari Mcclendon, Katherine Milla, Bruce Strouble

Group 6 - Extracurricular/Co-curricular programs focused on sustainability activities

- Sundiata Ameh El, Helen Brethauer-Gay, Kwasi Densu, Carla Lippett, Jennifer Taylor, LaVerne Well-Bowie, Dreamal Worthen, Sam X

2:00-3:10 PM Groups Discuss and document:

30 minutes: What is current practice?

30 minutes: What are effective practices, essential elements, common pitfalls?

10 minutes: What are the challenges and opportunities in this area?

3:10-3:30 PM Reviewing and Commenting on draft pages; Whole group discussion

3:30-4:30 PM All six groups reflect on feedback and refine their pages

30 minutes: Working Groups 4-6

30 minutes: All Groups

4:30-4:45 PM Wrap up the day and Daily Roadcheck John McDaris and John Warford

6:00 PM Dinner at Nefetari's Fine Cuisine and Spirits

Saturday, October 28

8:30-11:00 AM Skills workshops: Cathy Manduca, Hannah Scherer and Gary Weissmann

Two concurrent sessions aimed at strengthening sustainability courses and programs.

Strengthening courses (Hannah Scherer) - Room 105
Strengthening programs (Gary Weissmann) - Gallery

11:00 AM-1:00 PM Finishing the Guide - each group will have 1/2 of its members involved in the revision page to allow simultaneous completion of both rounds

12:00-1:00 PM Working Lunch

1:00-2:00 PM Closing session: Richard Gragg, John Warford, Cathy Manduca and John McDaris

Research Project

What are we doing with the guide to promote use?

Faculty/ teachers are expected to show continuous improvement and how they are connecting the university to community

For pre-service teachers: Portable/ tangible guide that graduates can take with them into the world - something they can show administrators to showcase their practice

Build a community around new, emerging ideas and resources

Link to other professional societies - through people who are involved

What is the pitch?

On-campus dissemination - e.g. FAMU Sustainability Institute, Department level efforts

Can build critical mass - branch out from this workshop

Webinar that showcases how the guide is being used by HBCU participants

Build guide into book chapter, could then include chapter submissions from individuals that expand on what we've started here

Webinar with the HBCU working group

get them to comment on the draft to strengthen it

Individuals go out to their sphere of influence to promote and disseminate

Invite folks to Webinar

Invite participation

HBCU presence at the Earth Educators' Rendezvous

HBCU working group moving into the future

Meeting at the Rendezvous

Working to build into something more formal and sustainable

Forming leadership team

What other collective steps are needed?

Getting ideas from the group into the guide

Getting other ideas from HBCUs into the guide - grounding in env sci/ sustainability

End of Workshop Evaluation