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Faculty Fellows
Sustainability Faculty Fellow
The Sustainability Faculty Fellow (SFF) works closely with the Office of Sustainability in Facilities Management, the Center for Teaching and Learning, Colleges, and the Office of the Provost to implement and evaluate programs to support sustainability. Read more
Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow
The TEK Faculty Fellow is a Cal Poly Humboldt faculty member whose role is to promote Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Science within the university system.
Trillium Project
The Trillium Project is a Humboldt based faculty development program that advances sustainability across the curriculum.The Sustainability Learning Retreat is a part of the Trillium Project and is hosted each January. Through these offerings Cal Poly Humboldt is recognized as a Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum, a program which aims to accelerate the infusion of sustainability content into curriculum by partnering with institutions of higher education to offer workshops and other professional development opportunities.
Sustainability Librarian
The Cal Poly Humboldt Library has a dedicated Sustainability Librarian to support students, staff and faculty in academics and research for environmentally sound practices, socially just progress and economically feasible solutions.
Cal Poly Humboldt Library Sustainability Research Guide
Morgan Barker, Sustainability Librarian
(707) 826-4930, Office LIB 206
The Library is diligently working towards functional sustainability as a Sustainable Library Certification member library. Central to this work is the support of sustainability information seeking, use and literacies at the university and in the surrounding community.
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt Cal Poly Humboldt is home to the CSU Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change which offers a place for Journal Articles, Student Research Briefs and Conference Proceedings.
Sustainable Learning at the Library centers student life and needs - advocating for open, accessible, inclusive, affordable education for lifelong learning.
OER/AL$ Open Educational Resources, CSU Affordable Learning Solutions Program
Faculty Professional Development
Jan 2024 Faculty Learning Retreat flyer
(Advancing Sustainability Across the Curriculum)
- Goal- Develop tools by which to integrate sustainability into your course (format draws heavily from the Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University and adapted at Emory in the Piedmont Project regarding integrating sustainability across the curriculum)
- Number of participants still to be determined (as of Dec 2023)
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: catered meals, rental of Humboldt Coastal Nature Center (220 Stamps Ln, Arcata, CA 95521) space; all programming offered at no cost to attendees; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Sustainability Fellow
- Led by campus facilitators Dr. Jennifer Ortega, Morgan Barker, Katie Koscielak
- Book- Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California by Kaitlin Reed
- Goal: Explore the notion of "resource rushing" in Northern CA through the lens of Indigenous sovereignty, science, and history
- 19 faculty/staff participants from 13 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow; wages allocated for an assistant to support the program
- Led by faculty Dr. Kaitlin Reed
- Book- Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability Edited by Melissa K. Nelson and Dan Shilling
- Goal: Explore essays and chapters that "define, interrogate, and problematize the many definitions of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and sustainability"
- 21 faculty/staff participants from 18 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow; wages allocated for an assistant to support the program
- Led by faculty Dr. Kaitlin Reed
- Goal- Become familiar with the philosophy of change in higher education developed through the Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University and adapted at Emory in the Piedmont Project regarding integrating sustainability across the curriculum.
- 8 participants joined the workshop from 5 CSU campuses spanning disciplines of History, Chemistry, Business, Religious Studies, Environmental Studies, and Geography, among others.
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: paid facilitator expert, catered lunch, rented Humboldt Coastal Nature Center (220 Stamps Ln, Arcata, CA 95521) space; all programming offered at no cost to attendees; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Sustainability Fellow
- Led by guest facilitator Dr. Geoffrey Chase; coordination supported by Dr. Jennifer Ortega
- Book- Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez
- Goal: Build language and literacy around Latinx Indigeneity of Central and South America within environmental discourse
- 24 faculty/staff participants from 16 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator via creation of ongoing Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow
- Led by faculty Dr. Kaitlin Reed
Spring 2022 Faculty Learning information
- CSU Systemwide collaboration (6 participating campuses, including Cal Poly Humboldt)
- Goals: With a focus on climate change & resilience, modify course curriculum, network with colleagues doing similar work, and design pedagogy that invokes solutions
- 6 Cal Poly Humboldt faculty participants; 61 participants total across CSU
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: Stipends for participants who provided required evidence of modifications to their course
- Led by Chico State Faculty Mark Stemen
- Book- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, & the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Goal: Increase awareness of reciprocal relationships with human and non-human relatives via Indigenous ways of knowing
- 18 faculty/staff participants from 11 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; stipends provided to guest speakers from Tribal nations
- Led by faculty Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy & Dr. Kaitlin Reed, and Sustainability Staff Katie Koscielak
Fall 2021 Speaker Series flyer
- Series Name: Decolonizing Sustainablity: Amplifying Indigenous Perspectives & Transforming Sustainability Discourse
- Goal: Increase literacy and understanding of Indigenous and decolonial sustainability perspectives
- 331 summative audience members attended on Zoom in real-time
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: stipends for guest panelists
- # of events: 4 (access recordings here)
- Led by faculty Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy & Dr. Kaitlin Reed, and Sustainability Staff Katie Koscielak
- Book- We Are the Land: A History of Native California by Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.
- Goal: Foreground Indigenous history of place when teaching about land and resources in California
- 19 faculty/staff participants from 12 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants
- Led by faculty Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy & Dr. Kaitlin Reed, and Sustainability Staff Katie Koscielak
- Book- As Long As Grass Grows: The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- Goal: Explore Indigenous Environmental Justice as a lens for environmental educators
- 19 faculty participants from 14 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books, mugs, Pomo acorn bites purchased for participants
- Led by faculty Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy & Dr. Kaitlin Reed, and Sustainability Staff Katie Koscielak
Spring 2020 Faculty Learning Community information
- Campus specific program
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: stipends for participants
- Led by faculty Jennifer Ortega and Sustainability Staff Morgan King