The Coneflower Project
Infusing Sustainability Across the Curriculum: Workshop for Faculty
AGENDA
Thursday May 17, 2012
Time
8:00 – 8:30am
8:30 – 8:45am
8:45 – 9:15am
9:15 – 9:45am
9:45 – 10:15am
10:15 – 10:30am
10:30 – 11:00am
11:00 – 12:00pm
12:00 – 1:00pm
1:00 – 1:30pm
1:30 – 2:30pm
Activity
Refreshments
“History of Horn Field
Campus”
Overview of workshop and
introductions
“What Does Sustainability
Mean? Different
Perspectives”
“Why Sustainability Across
the Curriculum?”
BREAK
“Putting a New Course in
Place”
Sustainability Across the
Curriculum: Coneflower
Alumni Roundtable
LUNCH
Explore Horn Field Campus
Grounds
Discussion of readings
Presenters
Mindy Pheiffer, Program
Coordinator, Horn Field Campus
Timothy Collins, Illinois Institute for
Rural Affairs; Gordon Rands,
Management and Marketing
Amy Patrick Mossman, English and
Journalism/Liberal Arts and
Sciences
Tom Sadler, Economics and
Decision Sciences
Marjorie Allison, English and
Journalism; Bruce Harris,
Instructional Design and
Technology; Ranbir Kang,
Geography; Jim La Prad,
Educational and Interdisciplinary
Studies; Vickie Livingston, Biological
Sciences; Shazia Rahman, English
and Journalism
The Coneflower Project: Infusing Sustainability Across the Curriculum – Workshop for Faculty
AGENDA
Friday May 18, 2012
Time
Activity
Presenters
8:00 – 8:30am
Refreshments
8:30 – 9:00am
“Sustainability at Western”
Mandi Green, WIU Sustainability
Coordinator
9:00 – 9:30am
“Sustainable Pedagogies:
Using the Interview Archive”
Joel Gruver, Agriculture
9:30 – 10:15am
“Getting to Know Your
Bioregion”
Shawn Meagher, Biological
Sciences
10:15 – 10:30am
BREAK
10:30 – 11:15am
“The Mississippi River:
Lessons in Sustainability”
11:15 – 12:30pm
Small Group Workshop:
Assignment Brainstorm!
12:30 – 1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30 – 2:30pm
Small Group Reports;
Synthesis and Wrap Up
Roger Viadero, Institute for
Environmental Studies