| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 57.59 |
| Liaison | Maria Ayala |
| Submission Date | Dec. 26, 2018 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Universidad San Francisco de Quito - USFQ
EN-7: Employee Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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0.65 / 3.00 |
Claudia
Tobar Director IDEA IDEA |
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Total number of employees (staff + faculty, headcount):
1,050
Number of employees served (i.e. directly targeted) by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program (avoid double-counting):
226
Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer educator program:
21.52
1st Program
SHIFT
Number of employees served (i.e. directly targeted) by the program (headcount):
226
A brief description of the program, including examples of peer-to-peer outreach activities:
At USFQ we have an academy called SHIFT. This unit is dedicated to improve the quality of teaching of our faculty members. In this department we organize several discussions and workshops dedicated to reflect on the changes and transformations needed for today’s education. Some of the workshops held contain a sustainability focus, such as:
- B-Academy, part of B Corps Academic program.
- Socratic dialogues – how to incorporate liberal arts in courses and teaching.
- Tools for Innovation and Sustainability in Teaching, Practice. Tools such as Intersectionality, Translanguaging, and Community Self-Governance.
- Multi and inter and transdisciplinary in design and architecture.
- Sexual diversity in the class room.
- Course connections.
- Gender.
- Collaborative learning.
These programs aim to improve faculty
A brief description of how the employee educators are selected:
10 professors are selected go to Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia, USA for a summer program in which they learn the main tools and trends. These professors are selected based on an application, which includes an essay describing their ideas for why modernizing the academic curriculum is important.
A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive to prepare them to conduct peer outreach:
When these professors return to the University, they institutionalize the knowledge by teaching others for the rest of the year. An award is given once a year for the ten professors that were selected to go. Once they return, they each have to run a workshop for professors at USFQ.
A brief description of the financial and/or administrative support the institution provides to the program (e.g. annual budget and/or paid faculty/staff coordination):
Budget for 2017 $30320.
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