Proposal Title
Climate Change Impacts the Future of Lesley University
Abstract
Each year the effects of climate change are more pronounced: increasing human migrations, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, famine, rising sea levels, and other myriad impacts. The “Lesley Futures Document 2030,” writes that Lesley University will prepare its students for the real world by incorporating the pillars of social justice, diversity, inclusion, and interdisciplinarity. Through brief presentations and moderated discussion, our cross-disciplinary panel will argue that these University goals are inextricably linked with the complex issue of climate change and environmental degradation. The panel will address a number of pivotal questions: How will educational institutions be impacted by Climate Change? How is climate change foundational to issues of social justice, diversity and inclusion? How would students benefit from a University focus on this complex and interdisciplinary problem? Along with asking the audience for question and comments, we will brainstorm ways Lesley can better prepare its students academically and emotionally for the real world, a world that is dramatically altered through Climate Change. Human-caused climate change not only threatens all Earth inhabitants, both human and non-human, but it connects and intersects with all of our existing University priorities. Lesley cannot adequately prepare itself or our students for the future without recognizing climate change as the defining problem of our time.
Start Date
27-3-2019 2:00 PM
End Date
27-3-2019 2:50 PM
Room Number
U-Hall 3-094
Presentation Type
Panel
Disciplines
Education | Life Sciences | Medicine and Health Sciences | Physical Sciences and Mathematics | Social and Behavioral Sciences
Climate Change Impacts the Future of Lesley University
Each year the effects of climate change are more pronounced: increasing human migrations, biodiversity loss, droughts, floods, famine, rising sea levels, and other myriad impacts. The “Lesley Futures Document 2030,” writes that Lesley University will prepare its students for the real world by incorporating the pillars of social justice, diversity, inclusion, and interdisciplinarity. Through brief presentations and moderated discussion, our cross-disciplinary panel will argue that these University goals are inextricably linked with the complex issue of climate change and environmental degradation. The panel will address a number of pivotal questions: How will educational institutions be impacted by Climate Change? How is climate change foundational to issues of social justice, diversity and inclusion? How would students benefit from a University focus on this complex and interdisciplinary problem? Along with asking the audience for question and comments, we will brainstorm ways Lesley can better prepare its students academically and emotionally for the real world, a world that is dramatically altered through Climate Change. Human-caused climate change not only threatens all Earth inhabitants, both human and non-human, but it connects and intersects with all of our existing University priorities. Lesley cannot adequately prepare itself or our students for the future without recognizing climate change as the defining problem of our time.
