Dear Colleagues [with apologies for cross-posting], In an email exchange with Eric Pallant of Allegheny College last week, Eric mentioned that participants at last year's NEES meetings (NEES is an annual meeting of U.S. environmental studies educators at the college/university level) yielded a consensus (or perhaps "policy statement"?) about appropriate course release for those of us who regularly supervise or guide two-semester senior (4th) year capstone/research projects for undergraduates. I gather that the consensus among the NEES participants was that faculty supervision of five year-long senior capstones/senior research projects is or should be roughly equivalent, in terms of workload, to teaching one semester-long course.
(I hope that I have that right, Eric.) I am developing a policy document for my current institution that seeks to establish offsetting course release for environmental studies faculty guiding year-long senior research projects/capstones. I'd find it enormously helpful if colleagues could email me, off-list, more details about this NEES conversation OR about their experience at their home institution regarding offsetting course release for their supervision of student year-long research projects during the student's final year of study in their undergraduate program. I'll compile what I learn and share the results with the list. So, bottom-line question: What if any teaching release do colleagues on this list, with faculty appointments in undergraduate Environmental Science/Environmental Studies programs (largely in the United States) receive for guiding year-long senior research capstone projects? And what is the institutional rationale for such release? Many thanks and best wishes, Michael Michael Maniates Professor of Social Sciences Head of Studies, Environmental Studies Associate Editor, Journal of Environmental Studies and Science Yale-NUS College, Singapore http://michaelmaniates.com<http://michaelmaniates.com/> (Senior Visiting Professor of Env. Studies, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 2011 - 2013; Professor of Env. Science and Political Science, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1993 - 2013). Most people are eagerly groping for some medium, some way in which they can bridge the gap between their morals and their practices. --Saul Alinsky ________________________________ Important: This email is confidential and may be privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, please delete it and notify us immediately; you should not copy or use it for any purpose, nor disclose its contents to any other person. Thank you. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "gep-ed" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
