EcoLeague Faculty

Over 400 faculty members bring a diversity of expertise, research interests, teaching experience, and life lessons to the EcoLeague. Through the EcoLeague consortium, faculty have many opportunities to collaborate with one another on curricula, pedagogy, research projects, and scholarship. Faculty are encouraged to learn about one another and explore potential EcoLeague collaborations. Contact your EcoLeague Faculty Representative and/or the EcoLeague Consortium Director for more information.

Collaboration Opportunities

Faculty Development Grant Program

Faculty Development Grant Program exists to promote collaborative teaching, curricular development and scholarly opportunities for EcoLeague faculty members. To help encourage and facilitate collaboration, faculty have access to grant funding to support faculty-initiated and collaborative curricular initiatives and creative research or service projects across the member colleges.

Grant Award Criteria

To be eligible for consideration, projects must:

1. Involve faculty from at least two EcoLeague institutions;
2. Highlight interdisciplinary, integrative, experiential or applied approaches;
3. Result in a linked class, collaborative course, curricular program proposal, scholarly or creative presentation or publication;
4. Include a plan for continued sustainability of the initiative, when appropriate.

Guidelines (maximum 3-pages)

Narrative grant proposals should be three pages or less and must include the following:

1. Project title;
2. Names, titles, and home institutions of the project participants;
3. Overview of project and a description of its significance;
4. Goals, objectives and outcome(s) of the project;
5. Implementation plan and timeline;
6. Budget (including costs associated with the project and stipends, if applicable).

Typically, grant awards will not exceed $3,500.

Due Dates & Submission

Applications for EcoLeague Faculty Development Grant Program are accepted and reviewed on a rolling basis.
Grant proposals should be converted into a PDF and mailed to coordinator@ecoleague.org.
Questions may also be forwarded to the coordinator.

Recent Grant Projects

Snow Science Collaborative Programming

Faculty: David Lovejoy (Prescott College) and Eeva Latosuo (Alaska Pacific University)

This grant covered the development of a collaborative Snow Science curriculum. Funding included travel and accommodation costs for the primary faculty to visit each other’s campus to meet with key administrators, staff, and other faculty involved in the development of the program, along with a partial stipend for additional workload in the creation of this project. The resulting pilot program launched in the 2016-2017 academic year and spans both campuses.

A Case Study of Changing Land Ownership in Northern Wisconsin

Faculty: Davis Taylor (College of the Atlantic), Brandon Hofstedt (Northland College), and Jonathan Martin (Northland College)

This grant funded the creation of an interdisciplinary working team to craft proposals for funding to address the issue of changing forest ownership, along with the collection of case studies of the effects of deindustrialization of northern forests on rural economies. Funding enabled Professor Taylor to visit Northland College in fall 2015, and provided a small stipend for research support for the faculty team, culminating in shared course modules dealing with forest ecology, forest economics, and regional community sustainability.

Conference Connections

Attending a professional conference? Connect with a colleague from an EcoLeague college for lunch or dinner, and EcoLeague will pick up the tab.

To promote relationship building and collaborations among EcoLeague colleges, the EcoLeague consortium will reimburse faculty and staff who connect for a meal while they are attending a conference or workshop.

To make a conference connection, send a message to coordinator@ecoleague.org identifying yourself, your EcoLeague institution and position, the conference you will be attending, and when you will be in attendance at the conference.

The EcoLeague Consortium Director will track conference connections requests and notify you if colleagues from other EcoLeague colleges will be attending the same conference.