The Sustainable Cities Campus Learning Community takes place during the 2020-21 academic year at Miami Dade College (MDC) Padrón and North campuses.  Participating faculty from both campuses will integrate elements of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities into their curricula through the Fall and Spring terms.  MDC’s Earth Ethics Institute (EEI) and the Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy (iCED) will offer support in the form of content, programming, and related civic engagement changemaking opportunities for MDC students.  Both academic terms will culminate in a symposium featuring student projects, guest speakers, film screenings, special events/activities, and more. 

The Sustainable Cities Campus Learning Community offers the opportunity for faculty to employ such high-impact pedagogies as academic service-learning, project-based learning, and changemaking education.  It also offers a framework for not only the study of sustainability but examining current events and social issues through the lens of urban sustainability.  Additionally, such topics as urban design, green spaces, poverty, transportation, and more are all “fair game” for faculty to tackle.  MDC faculty already participating in EEI’s Global Sustainability and Earth Literacy Studies (GSELS) learning network as well as implementing the Civic Action Scorecard through iCED will find extending into the campus learning community an easy yet rewarding stretch. 

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