A Virtual Summit: March-May, 2021
Haverford College
The virtual summit “Educating for a Just Ecological Transition: Building Higher Educational Alliances in a Time of Climate Crisis” engages emerging responses to the climate crisis in higher education—with particular attention to the roles higher education institutions can play in building alliances with social movements, community organizations, artists, intellectuals, and informal educational structures. How can advocacy around climate justice respond to broader questions about inequalities of power? How should institutions of higher education act on their responsibilities to address the climate crisis through curricula, infrastructure, and institutional action? How can higher education institutions learn from, partner with, and provide resources for community organizations and educational programs?
Guiding Questions:
How should institutions of higher education act on their responsibilities to address the climate crisis through curricula and institutional action?
How can advocacy around climate justice respond to broader questions about inequalities of power?
How can higher education institutions learn from and provide resources for community partners and educational programs?
Goals:
Working with a broad range of activists, scholars, artists, and educators, we hope to:
Build alliances between higher educational institutions and social movements, community organizations, artists, intellectuals, and informal educational structures.
Compile best practices to assist institutions of higher education in acting on their responsibilities to address the climate crisis, cognizant of broader questions about inequalities of power.
Create materials for communities, organizations and individuals to foster educational contexts responsive to cascading environmental crises.
Contact: Joshua Moses - jmoses@haverford.edu & Laura McGrane - lmcgrane@haverford.edu
Organized by Education Ecologies Collective. Sponsored by the Leaves of Grass Foundation, the John. B. Hurford ’60 Center for the Arts and Humanities, VCAM, and the Department of Environmental Studies at Haverford College.