[Factc] CCs Educating Students to Live in a Changing Climate

[Jennifer Whetham]

Dear Friends and Colleagues (Aka the Hive Mind):

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 . . .

How can our colleges prepare our students to live in a changing climate?

Melody found an interesting report<https://secondnature.org/wp-content/uploads/Higher_Education_Role_Adapting_Changing_Climate.pdf> 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.

Melody's Ask: Do you know of or have heard about any groups who are working on this issue?
Please respond to Melody at melody.schneider at email.edcc.edu<mailto:melody.schneider at email.edcc.edu>
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[Title: SBCTC logo - Description: Compass]Jennifer Whetham (pronouns: she/her/hers)
Assessment, Teaching, and Learning
Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges
jwhetham at sbctc.edu<mailto:jwhetham at sbctc.edu> * o: 360-704-4354 * c: 206-310-1291
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"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."

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