Academics and Operations: Campus as a Living Learning Lab for Sustainability

Although academics and campus operations share a common mission of making colleges and universities hospitable for those engaged in teaching, learning, and research, the people in academics and operations historically carry out their responsibilities separately. What can bridge their two separate worlds? This panel will explore possible answers this question, bringing together those on the campus who otherwise might have been strangers. In the process, instructors are designing new courses around interdisciplinary campus-centered topics such as energy, food, and waste.

Panelists will draw upon their own experiences and empirical findings to address questions such as:

1) What has worked in bridging the world of campus operations and campus academics?

2) What challenges arise in making a campus a living learning lab for sustainability, both for instructors and for those in campus operations?

3) What are the learning outcomes for courses designed to bridge the two worlds?

Presenters

Meaghan C. Smith, The California State University

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Title of paper

The Campus as a Living Learning Lab (CALL) Initiative: Partnering faculty and facilities management staff

Timothy D. Lindstrom, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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Title of paper

Bridging Campus Operations & Academics: Teaching & Learning about Campus Lighting Upgrades

Gary J. Hawley, University of Vermont

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The Greening of Aiken: A campus and school partnership at the University of Vermont

2015 Conference

June 24–27, 2015

San Diego, CA