Associated Colleges of the South

Chocolate Covered Teaching: Using commodity-based goods to foster critical thinking skills in undergraduates
2023-06-01 08:00 - 2023-06-04 17:00 (America/New_York)
This chocolate workshop is aimed at faculty across disciplines who use – or want to consider using – chocolate and other “affordable luxuries” as an approach for teaching curricular materials, especially at introductory levels. Faculty will explore and create curricular materials that both support and integrate the natural sciences (Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Neuroscience), the social sciences (Anthropology, Education, Geography, Economics, Business, Environmental Studies), the fine arts (Visualization) and the humanities (English, History, Religion, Community) into different themes including, but not limited to, biodiversity, global and local economics/business, human health, artistic impression, and social justice.

Registration for this event is now closed.

Sustainability Mindset: Making Change Makers
2023-05-23 08:00 - 2023-05-25 17:00
(at Sewanee, University of the South)

What happens when we notice our own choices rippling out across time and around the globe? Mindsets shift about what “sustainability” might include. Beyond fostering eco-literacy, Education for Sustainable Development Goals (ESDG), a United Nations initiative, structures approaches and techniques for opening students’ minds to fostering global-social changes. This workshop builds on innovative curricula using a leading-edge approach sustainability mindset, led by Dr. Isabel Rimanoczy.

Registration for this workshop seeks to balance multi-disciplinary representation and assure access to people from across all ACS schools. Therefore, please apply here before April 10. Organizers will then contact people for registration as space permits. A waiting list will be created as needed, and all registration closes by April 21.
