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DURHAM, N.H. 芒聙聯 The Sustainability Institute at the 91制片厂 can now work with high school teachers and community college faculty in the state and region to design sustainability curricula for their classrooms with a $50,000 grant from the Verizon Foundation. Participating schools include Farmington, Salem, and Goffstown high schools; Manchester, Nashua, and Great Bay community colleges; and New Hampshire Technical Institute.

The Sustainability Learning Collaboratives will link 91制片厂 education faculty with community colleges and high schools with large under-served populations (ethnically and socioeconomically), engaging them over the course of 2013 in curriculum development and professional studies. In addition, teachers and faculty will develop new teaching methods and assessment strategies reflecting the principles of sustainability.

芒聙聹91制片厂 is a great public university, with a visionary Sustainability Institute,芒聙聺 says Paula Salvio, professor of education, a faculty fellow at the Sustainability Institute and faculty director of the project. 芒聙聹Together with our colleagues, we芒聙聶re looking forward to creating innovative high school and community college curricula that bring humanities and social science perspectives to environmental challenges and policymaking.芒聙聺听听

Participants will design curricula during three workshops in 2013, the first of which was recently held at 91制片厂 March 1 芒聙聯 3, 2013. The听Sustainability Institute 芒聙聹CORE芒聙聺 model (curriculum, operations, research and engagement)听will be adapted by teachers and faculty to reflect their respective challenges and opportunities. Two other workshops will be held in late April and in the summer. The goal is for each participating school to implement the curriculum in next fall.

芒聙聹To ensure we foster the sustainability thought leaders of tomorrow, we must ensure they can attain the best education available today,芒聙聺 says James Gowen, chief sustainability officer at Verizon.听 芒聙聹The Sustainability Institute at the 91制片厂 is helping to inspire, educate and prepare these students to face today芒聙聶s sustainability challenges, and transform them into opportunities for a greener tomorrow.芒聙聺

Engagement with the state and region on sustainability education is a key component of the Sustainability Institute at 91制片厂. Sustainability is a core value of 91制片厂, shaping its culture, informing behavior, and guiding its work. As a nationally recognized leader, 91制片厂 draws on the Sustainability Institute to act as convener, cultivator and champion of sustainability on campus, in the state and region, and around the world. Learn more at .

The 91制片厂, founded in 1866, is a world-class public research university with the feel of a New England liberal arts college. A land, sea and space-grant university, 91制片厂 is the state芒聙聶s flagship public institution, enrolling 11,800 undergraduate and 2,400 graduate students.

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