Curriculum Project - Phase II

In 2000, the Sustainable Forestry Partnership began a formal effort to explore ways to integrate ecology and social issues into forestry education in the United States by launching a project called, "Mainstreaming Sustainable Forestry Graduate Education in the Forestry Schools of the United States." This project involved on-campus focus groups and a national conference on the topic of how to make forestry education at the university level more responsive to current and future needs of forestry employers.

We have distilled what we have learned over a year and a half of planning, and now are developing the Inter-Disciplinary and Inter-University Undergraduate Course in Sustaining Forests and Rangeland Ecosystems and Local Communities. The project stresses:

1. cross-regional, multi-institutional collaboration, course delivery to undergraduate students across a range of disciplines as well as working professionals seeking education enhancement, and
2. using multiple modes of learning (e.g., visual, field trips, text, virtual tours, panel interviews, etc.) and formats, depending on partner institutions’ target learner objectives.

Project partners:

• Auburn University
• Cornell University
• Michigan State University
• Oregon State University
• Pennsylvania State University
• University of Vermont
• Utah State University

Sponsors

Auburn University
Doris Duke Foundation
United States Environmental Protection Agency
USDA Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
Merck Family Fund
Oregon State University
The Pennsylvania State University

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