Sustainability and the University- Lisa Shaffer

Universities create the future through discovery, education, and example. Campuses throughout the UC system and around the world are developing sustainability programs in response to the challenges facing society, and in recognition of our obligation to contribute to a more sustainable future. Lisa Shaffer will describe some of the experiences, challenges, and successes in sustainability programs at UC San Diego and other institutions, from "greening" the campus as a model and living laboratory for its inhabitants, through teaching, research, student engagement, and outreach. She will address the challenges of academic culture; the lack of incentives for interdisciplinarity; the tension between research and teaching emphasis; and the need for "boundary organizations" and how hard it is to create them in a university system.

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Education

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• Lisa Shaffer
• UCSD
• UC Irvine
• CUSA
• Sustainability
• environment
• universities