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The document discusses the significant implications of the climate crisis on higher education, including necessary changes in academic research, campus environments, and community relations. It emphasizes the urgent need for innovative curricula, teaching methods, and institutional roles in addressing climate challenges over the short to long term. There is a focus on engaging Gen Z perspectives as future leaders and the importance of collaboration and adaptability in academia's response to enduring climate issues.
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- 1. Higher Education inthe Age of Climate Crisis
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- 5. Learning Outcomes: 1 Discussthe implications for academic research and teaching as well as how institutions might change plans if global warming becomes better or worse than projected. 2 Consider how the campus’s physical environment changes, from creating new buildings and renovating current ones to generating local power, rethinking grounds, changing food service, and revolutionizing transportation, and more.
- 6. Learning Outcomes: 3 Discussthe ways campus- community relations can develop for good or ill in an era of escalating climate crises and what opportunities it presents for all parties. 4 Consider the role higher education plays in the world as civilization rethinks its fundamental operations and purpose.
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- 9. Climate hits academia: 1.Directimpact 2.Secondary natural effects 3.Human responses
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- 22. Climate change oncampus ●Buildings ●Power ●Transportation ●Green IT? ●Food systems ●Basic needs
- 23. Climate change oncampus ●Relocation from water, desert
- 24. Climate change impacts Research: ●Fieldsexpand ●New domains, disciplines ●Fields contract
- 25. Climate change impacts Support? •How to preserve endangered sites, materials • Political pressures
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- 27. • All webinars? • HyFlex meetings? But: •Inequalities • Resistance
- 28. Climate change impacts Teaching:curricula ●Expand current work ●Add new microcredentials, programs, centers
- 29. Climate change impacts Teaching:pedagogies: ●Project based ●Inquiry based ●Simulations/gaming
- 30. Climate change impacts Teaching:careers ●Green jobs ●Climate crisis jobs
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- 33. Climate change impacts Roleof academia in the crisis ●Work with local efforts? ●Collaboration/friction
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- 35. Climate change impacts Roleof academia in the crisis ●Public intellectuals? ●Lead mitigation? ●Support climate migrants? ●Global alliances?
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- 40. Why is somuch of academia stalling? ● Fear of political risks ● Overwhelmed by other causes ● Drained, exhausted by last 4, 8 years ● In defense mode ● Not seeing available, effective actions
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- 43. World has changed ●Natural differences ● 2nd and 3rd tier impacts.
- 44. All play outon campuses ● Nature: different flora ● Weather crises ● Some damage ● More online - or retro ● 3rd tier active
- 45. Politics and culture ●States of emergency ● Local, regional situations ● Increasing political instability ● Migration of 10s of millions
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- 47. (To glimpse ahead,climate fiction)
- 48. Our academic communitiesare part of this world. Gen z are faculty. Staff. What will they want academia to do? Back to domains slide To what extent do they want institutions to play an active role in the world crisis?
- 49. Longer: Gen zare leaders, trustees. ● Everyone younger already experienced ● How will they look back on our actions today?
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- 53. Sense of urgencycan flag ●Fortunate earth system events ●Stunning innovation ●Distractions
- 54. The dice arealready loaded. ● The crisis is baked in past the end of the century. ● Things will keep getting hard. ● Now is the time for innovation and creativity. ● Now for collaboration.
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