SHES PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION Michael Reiter Ph D Professor

SHES PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION Michael Reiter Ph. D Professor & Director, B. J. Moore Center for Integrated Environmental Science Bethune-Cookman University, Daytona Beach FL -and- Richard Smardon Ph. D SUNY Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus SUNY/ESF Syracuse NY

PROGRAM EVALUATION & ASSESSMENT • Challenges and barriers • Genesis and need for assessment • Existing sustainability assessment tools • Global University Network in Innovation • AASHE’s STARS System • Environmental Management Systems Self Assessment + GEMI

PROGRAM ASSESSMENT TOOLS • Three dimensional University Rating System by Luckman • Sustainability Tool for Auditing for University Curricula in Higher-Education (STAUNCH) by Lozano • Learning outcomes & competencies in Europe- Rooda, De. Haan Lambrechts & Sleurs

SHES PROGRAM ASSESSMENT • Holistic thinking • Systems thinking • Supradisciplinary thinking • Complexity thinking • Temporal thinking • Diversity thinking • Collaboration • Social learning

SHES PROGRAM ASSESSMENT

SUPPORTING SHES FACULTY • Challenges for large & small institutions • Recruiting faculty-planning & implementation effort • Mentoring and support- integration vs. specialization – how SHES faculty work • Promotion & tenure considerations – assessing SHES scholarship • Institution adjustment – promotion criteria, budgets & decision making

SUPPORTING CURRICULUM & PROGRAM DESIGN • Holistic environmental education challenges • CEDD census results – environmental science vs. problem solving vs. environmental citizen • Resource rich vs. resource constrained • Bigger is not always better – smaller institution innovation • Pathways forward for SHES program development

DISCIPLINARITY?

PROGRAM DESIGN MODELS

MOVING TOWARD A SHES PROGRAM

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT & RECOGNITION • Dysfunction of current interdisciplinary programs • Small institutions as models – Unity College (Mulkey) • Larger institution experiments: Yale, Duke, UC Santa Barbara, U Wisconsin, ASU’s School of Sustainability • Need for transitional structures to move toward SHES • • Include cultural perspectives New leadership to embrace the vision Governing bodies accept fiduciary responsibility Allocation of resources for SHES support

INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORT & RECOGNITION • Institutional & program recognition • Early effort by the NAEP for academic centers of excellence • CEDD National censuses 2004 through 2016 • AASHE Sustainability Tracking Assessment and Rating System STARS -373 rated institutions - 878 participating institutions - 726 US – 72 Canadian and 80 from other countries • Kappa Alpha Omicron – International honor society in interdisciplinary environmental science/studies • How do we recognize institutional movement toward SHES?