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<div>Five years ago, the Curriculum for the Bioregion initiative (which I directed at the time) conducted a survey of colleges and universities in Western Washington that invited faculty respondents to identify what they were teaching/emphasizing with respect
to climate change and climate solutions. Over 340 faculty members (from 19 community colleges and 11 universities) responded. It was not a comprehensive survey but it *did* provide a snapshot of what was being taught a few years ago. Attached is a brief
summary of the survey results; if any of you would like to see the full report, write me and I'll send it to you.</div>
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<div>In the 2016-17 academic year, the Curriculum for the Bioregion project convened a faculty learning community, "Teaching in an Age of Climate Consequences." The 40+ participants spent the year sharing ideas for helping students embrace the cognitive complexity
of climate change, as well as the emotional undertow associated with studying a daunting problem. Some of their shared ideas are online at the Curriculum for the Bioregion's curriculum collection: <a href="https://serc.carleton.edu/bioregion/index.html" target="_blank" style="font-size: 10pt;">https://serc.carleton.edu/bioregion/index.html</a> </div>
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<div>Our colleague David Blockstein (at the Association of Environmental Studies and Sciences) has opined, "The glaciers are melting faster than the curriculum is changing." So true! If our colleagues and universities cannot lead the way toward climate solutions,
who will? In too many respects, we are still preparing students for the century that ended 18 years ago. </div>
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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51); margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:Verdana">Jean MacGregor</span><span style="font-size:9pt"></span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51); margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:Verdana">(Retired) Director, Curriculum for the Bioregion</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51); margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:Verdana">Washington Center for Undergraduate Education</span></p>
<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51); margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-family:Verdana; font-size:9pt">The Evergreen State College</span></p>
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<p style="color:rgb(51,51,51); margin:0in 0in 0pt"><span style="font-size:9pt; font-family:Verdana">E-mail: <a href="mailto:macgjean@evergreen.edu" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff">macgjean@evergreen.edu</font></a></span></p>
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<div id="divRpF560415" style="direction: ltr;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Jennifer Whetham [jwhetham@sbctc.edu]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, October 31, 2018 3:10 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> atlc@lists.ctc.edu; 'factc@lists.ctc.edu'; wpa-l@lists.asu.edu; 'dehpd-wactc@googlegroups.com'; discussion@podnetwork.org; learningcommunitiesassociation@freelists.org; MacGregor, Jean<br>
<b>Cc:</b> MELODY SCHNEIDER<br>
<b>Subject:</b> CCs Educating Students to Live in a Changing Climate<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">One of the wonderful faculty leaders for student learning, Melody Schneider of Edmonds CC, wrote to me with the following inquiry: In light of the UN report on
climate change issued recently, and because of the classes I teach that investigate climate change data . . .</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">How can our colleges prepare our students to live in a changing climate?</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Melody found an interesting
<span style="background:yellow"><a href="https://secondnature.org/wp-content/uploads/Higher_Education_Role_Adapting_Changing_Climate.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">report</a>
</span>from several years ago about how colleges could lead . . . however, other than work at University of Washington, she found nothing about the role community colleges play in educating students for the future in a changed climate.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Melody’s Ask:
<b><i><u><span style="background:yellow">Do you know of or have heard about any groups who are working on this issue?</span></u></i></b><span style="background:yellow"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; background:yellow">Please respond to Melody at
<a href="mailto:melody.schneider@email.edcc.edu" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">
melody.schneider@email.edcc.edu</a></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><img src="cid:image003.png@01D4712B.CC60DEE0" align="left" hspace="12" alt="Title: SBCTC logo - Description: Compass" style="width:.625in; height:1.1736in" height="113" width="60"><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif; color:#003764">Jennifer
Whetham </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif; color:#003764">(pronouns: she/her/hers)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif; color:#003764"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt; text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#003764">Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges</span></p>
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</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#003764">• o: 360-704-4354 • c: 206-310-1291</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:10.55pt; text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#003764">Register Now</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:#003764">
for the </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><a href="http://bit.ly/2kGygBt" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="color:#4472C4">2018 New Faculty Institute</span></a></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">“I’m not interested in the exceptions, only the patterns. As a culture, we (the U.S.) focus too much on exceptions, often fooling ourselves into believing that
because there are exceptions, the rule no longer exists or that it’s easily broken by anyone with enough willpower or hutzpah.”</span></p>
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</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif; color:black">Asao B. Inoue,
<i><a href="http://bit.ly/2xvacY4" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Antiracist Writing Assessment Ecologies</a></i></span></p>
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