{"671301":{"#nid":"671301","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Sustainability Awards Will Help Redesign Ivan Allen College Courses to Include the SDGs ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESix Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts faculty members from four schools have won Sustainability Education Innovation Awards funded by Sustainability Next and managed by the Undergraduate Sustainability Education Committee.\u0026nbsp;\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EOverall, nine faculty members from around Georgia Tech were awarded seed grants to help transform courses to include sustainability challenges and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe awards advance Georgia Tech\u2019s Strategic Plan goal to connect globally and amplify impact by contributing \u201cto global collaborative efforts that advance the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals through our education, research, and service.\u201d\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Ivan Allen College faculty and the classes to be redesigned are:\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cul\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKate Pride Brown\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of History and Sociology: Introduction to Sociology and Environmental Sociology through the UN SDGs\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EKelly Comfort\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of Modern Languages: ML 2500: Think Globally, Act Locally: An Introduction to Cross-Cultural Studies \u0026amp; the UN SDGs\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ERoberto Gonzalez\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of Economics: Problem-Based Learning of Statistical Models for Undergraduate Economics Students\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003ENatalie Khazaal\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of Modern Languages: Teaching Sustainability in the Arabic Language Classroom\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EChristopher Peace\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of Literature, Media, and Communication: SDGs for Business Communication\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cli\u003E\r\n\t\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHongchen Wu\u003C\/strong\u003E, School of Modern Languages: Two courses \u2014 Language and Life in Asia; Intro to Linguistics\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\t\u003C\/li\u003E\r\n\u003C\/ul\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cWith many of the first and second-round projects featuring high enrollment and core courses, these \u2018seed grants\u2019 will significantly expand the reach of Georgia Tech\u2019s sustainability-across-the-curriculum initiatives,\u201d Rebecca Watts Hull, assistant director of faculty development for sustainability education initiatives in the Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), wrote in a recent \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/blog.ctl.gatech.edu\/2023\/11\/07\/second-round-of-sustainability-education-innovation-grants-will-expand-transformative-teaching-with-the-sdgs\/\u0022 rel=\u0022noreferrer noopener\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Epost\u003C\/a\u003E about the awards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EFour Ivan Allen College faculty from four schools were among the 21 campus recipients in last year\u0027s inaugural awards.\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESix faculty members each received seed grants to help them work Sustainable Development Goal concepts into their courses.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Six faculty members each received seed grants to help them work Sustainable Development Goal concepts into their courses."}],"uid":"34600","created_gmt":"2023-11-29 18:02:07","changed_gmt":"2023-11-29 18:09:00","author":"mpearson34","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2023-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-11-29T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"672472":{"id":"672472","type":"image","title":"Six Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Faculty will redesign one or two of their courses to include the UN Sustainable Development Goals..jpg","body":"\u003Cp\u003ESix Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Faculty will redesign one or two of their courses to include the UN Sustainable Development Goals.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","created":"1701281128","gmt_created":"2023-11-29 18:05:28","changed":"1701281380","gmt_changed":"2023-11-29 18:09:40","alt":"\u0022\u0022","file":{"fid":"255711","name":"Six Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts Faculty will redesign one or two of their courses to include the UN Sustainable Development Goals..jpg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/29\/Six%20Ivan%20Allen%20College%20of%20Liberal%20Arts%20Faculty%20will%20redesign%20one%20or%20two%20of%20their%20courses%20to%20include%20the%20UN%20Sustainable%20Development%20Goals..jpg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2023\/11\/29\/Six%20Ivan%20Allen%20College%20of%20Liberal%20Arts%20Faculty%20will%20redesign%20one%20or%20two%20of%20their%20courses%20to%20include%20the%20UN%20Sustainable%20Development%20Goals..jpg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":235823,"path_740":"http:\/\/tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2023\/11\/29\/Six%20Ivan%20Allen%20College%20of%20Liberal%20Arts%20Faculty%20will%20redesign%20one%20or%20two%20of%20their%20courses%20to%20include%20the%20UN%20Sustainable%20Development%20Goals..jpg?itok=_7Om33Dl"}}},"media_ids":["672472"],"groups":[{"id":"1281","name":"Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts"},{"id":"1282","name":"School of Economics"},{"id":"1288","name":"School of History and Sociology"},{"id":"1283","name":"School of Literature, Media, and Communication"},{"id":"1284","name":"School of Modern Languages"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu\u0022\u003EMichael Pearson\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nIvan Allen College of Liberal Arts\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["michael.pearson@iac.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}