Highlighting the work of one of our most active CEF participants over the years, The Environment Initiative at the University of Oregon has named Sarah Stapleton, an assistant professor in the College of Education, as its faculty fellow for spring 2022, as part of a new program funded by the Office of the Provost.
The Environment Initiative Faculty Fellows Program aims to enhance transdisciplinary research and advance the Initiative’s strategic priorities. Faculty fellows will receive a course buyout to complete a project that contributes to the goals of the initiative, which include leveraging environmental research and teaching toward social and environmental justice.
As the Environment Initiative faculty fellow, Stapleton will move forward an interdisciplinary effort to create — in coordination with a team of Oregon teachers and Beyond Toxics, a grassroots environmental justice organization — an interdisciplinary, environmental justice high school curriculum. Stapleton will organize and facilitate a summer institute to provide collaboration time and feedback for master teachers to co-build the curriculum around Oregon environmental justice case studies as told through community health data collected by Beyond Toxics.
Stapleton’s research, teaching, and community service working toward climate justice and environment education align with the Environment Initiative’s mission and exemplify its guiding principles.
Learn more at: https://around.uoregon.edu/content/environment-initiative-announces-faculty-fellow-spring-2022?utm_source=ato12-07-21&utm_campaign=workplace
