The 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly in conjunction with the Center for Teaching & Learning are pleased to announce a new fellowship to focus on climate and sustainability in education for AY24-25. Please see details below for the description and call for applications. Direct questions to bfa@colorado.edu. 

Climate & Sustainability in Education

Faculty Working Group Leader

The Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) in conjunction with the 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly Climate Science and Education Committee (CSEC) seeks applications for a new, year-long fellowship, leading a faculty working group that will enhance synergies among CU 麻豆影院鈥檚 course offerings in climate change and sustainability. The primary focus will be on creating clearer pathways for students to pursue climate change and sustainability education across multiple majors.

The current climate crisis and growing challenges related to sustainability have increased the urgency for new approaches to climate and sustainability education. CU 麻豆影院 currently offers numerous classes across all colleges that address climate issues. However, students rarely have clear pathways to pursue well-orchestrated credentials for their interests in climate change and sustainability. The successful applicant will assemble and lead a working group of approximately 6-10 faculty who will investigate how we can more effectively prepare students in these fields.

Through this program, faculty will catalog existing courses and explore synergies among them in order to arrange a series of incremental and stackable micro-credentials that can ultimately lead to a certificate or a major. In addition, the group will host a series of short presentations in an open community of practice, whereby faculty across the campus can share the challenges and opportunities they faced as they developed new courses and expanded existing courses to address issues of climate change and sustainability.

The successful applicant will organize a series of meetings throughout the Fall and Spring semesters of the 2024-2025 academic year. These meetings will occur at approximately three-week intervals and will provide a forum for in-depth conversations related to teaching climate change and sustainability on the 麻豆影院 campus. Additionally, there will be a few preparation meetings over the summer with times TBD. Working with members of the Environmental Center, the BFA Climate Science and Education committee, the BFA Academic Affairs committee and members of the CTL staff, the leader of this group will help CU 麻豆影院 enhance its reputation as a leader in climate and sustainability education.

This leadership position will come with up to a $10,000 stipend.

We invite interested tenured, tenure-track, and teaching professors to apply before Friday, May 3, 2024. Applicants should include: (1) a one-page statement of interest, (2) a CV, and (3) a brief statement from a chair or director expressing support for participation in the program and email items to: Kirk Ambrose at: ctl@colorado.edu. 

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Sponsored by the 麻豆影院 Faculty Assembly and the Office of Academic Affairs, hosted by the Center for Teaching and Learning

Given the explosion of interest in AI both within and outside academia, the 麻豆影院 faculty will be holding a series of colloquia this spring.  Invited faculty will give informal presentations and engage in open discussions of topics related to classroom uses (and abuses) of software such as ChatGPT, but topics are not limited to pedagogy, and we imagine presentations focused on faculty research areas, as well, for example, questions in philosophy, computer science, religious studies, and the arts. 

Fri, Mar 3 from 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. MT 

• Shivakant Mishra, Professor, College of Engineering and Applied Science, Honor Code Advisory Board faculty - The Impact of AI and Cheating
• Nathan Schneider, Assistant Professor, Media Studies - Governable Spaces for Accountable AI
• Clayton Lewis, Emeritus Professor of Computer Science - Analogical reasoning in GPT-3

Tue, Mar 14 from 3:30 p.m-5:00 p.m. MT

• Eliana Colunga, Associate Professor, Cognitive Psychology and Neuroscience, Institute of Cognitive Science - Human Language and the Lure of Chatbot Sentience
• Benjamin Slater Hale, Associate Professor, Environmental Studies and Philosophy - "Danger, Will Manfredjinsinjin!": Generative AI and the Perils of the XK-Red-27 Technique
• Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Associate Professor, Computer Science - Developing an Artificial Understanding of the World Around Us

Wed, Apr 5 from 12:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. MT

• Peter Foltz, ICS Faculty, Research Professor, Institute of Cognitive Science - Balancing the challenges and opportunities for using Large Language Models for improving Student Learning
• Kai Larsen, Associate Professor, Information Management - The Implications of Generative A.I. (including ChatGPT) for Research into Human Behavior
• Bill Penuel, Professor, Learning Sciences and Human Development - Preparing Future Students for A.I. in Academics
• Julia Staffel, Associate Professor, Philosophy, College of Arts and Science - Teaching with ChatGPT: Against the Nuclear Option

These sessions will be meeting in the Center for Teaching & Learning, room E390. Feel free to attend all or just those that fit your schedule. Alternatively, you may . Please note the Zoom chat will not be monitored.  These events are open to the public and in-person space is limited.  For more information email Kirk Ambrose at kirk.ambrose@colorado.edu. 

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