To promote infusion of climate and sustainability topics across a broad range of courses campus-wide, the Climate and Sustainability Teaching Fellows Program launched in Spring 2023. This program builds on the model of the Trillium Sustainability Fellows Program.
During May 2023, twelve Duke faculty fellows from across seven of Duke’s ten schools, three faculty co-convenors (Dr. Charlotte Clark, Associate Professor of the Practice Emeritus, Environmental Sciences and Policy; Dr. Alex Glass, Senior Lecturer, Earth and Climate Sciences; and Dr. Priscilla Wald, R. Florence Brinkley Distinguished Professor of English), and staff from Duke Learning Innovation, Sustainable Duke and the NSOE met for a week of workshops introducing them to the intersections between climate, sustainability, and courses the faculty fellows already teach. Following the week of workshops, faculty revised their course syllabi over the summer and updated course materials to reflect these systems connections. Revised courses are being delivered during the 2023-24 academic year. This program is expected to run again in the summer of 2024 with a new cohort of teaching fellows. A call for proposals will be issued in late fall 2023.