Conference: Catalyzing a New York Climate Solutions Community of Practice

催化纽约气候解决方案实践社区旨在解决有组织和统一应对气候危机的国家需求，以及纽约州在《气候法》中概述的政策承诺。通过这一系列会议，战略能源创新（SEI）将与纽约州立大学（SUNY）系统合作，确定并召集纽约州立大学系统内机构类型的多校园网络。实践社区将吸引多达30名教职员工、管理人员、学生服务人员和设施负责人，通过确定共同目标、应对挑战、探索成功项目的例子，加速高等教育中利益相关者的气候解决方案。该项目将通过其改变校园运营的潜力，提高对气候变化的认识并加强学生的职业道路，提高教师对气候变化教学的舒适度和获取资源的机会，为公众利益服务。战略能源创新（SEI）将在纽约州立大学系统内的6个校区开展工作，通过分享跨学科、基于证据的教育和劳动力发展气候工作实践，打破高等教育机构和跨部门的传统孤岛。在纽约州立大学环境科学与林业学院（ESF）内设立的实践社区也将努力扩大资源差距，努力在纽约高等教育机构的地球科学系内外生产跨学科课程和资源，以增加对气候劳动力发展工作的采用。实践社区将建立高等教育领导者的能力：1)分享将气候解决方案纳入跨学科课程的实践和战略，2)了解并发现跨部门和校园的气候联系；3)增加高等教育学生的学习成果和实践经验。通过这个项目，教师和工作人员将制定改进的教学策略和劳动力发展实践，使学生能够增加他们解决气候问题的努力，并将地球科学资源和研究整合到跨学科材料和校园生活实验室中。该奖项反映了美国国家科学基金会的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

The Catalyzing a New York Climate Solutions Community of Practice aims to address the national need for an organized and unified response to the climate crisis as well as New York State’s policy commitments outlined in the Climate Act. Through this conference series, Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI), in partnership with the State University of New York (SUNY) system, will identify and convene a multi-campus network of institution types within the SUNY system. The Community of Practice will engage up to 30 faculty members, administrators, student services staff, and facilities leaders through a process of identifying common goals, addressing challenges, and exploring examples of successful programs that accelerate climate solutions across stakeholders in higher education. This project will serve the public interest through its potential to transform campus operations, increase the awareness of and strengthen student career pathways focused on climate change, and improve faculty comfort and access to resources for teaching about climate change.Strategic Energy Innovations (SEI) will work across a cohort of 6 campuses within New York’s SUNY system in order to break down traditional silos in higher education institutions and across sectors by sharing interdisciplinary, evidence-based practices for educational and workforce development climate efforts. The Community of Practice, anchored within SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (ESF) will also work to amplify resource gaps in an effort to produce interdisciplinary curriculum and resources within and beyond the Geosciences Departments at New York higher education institutions to increase adoption of climate workforce development efforts. The Community of Practice will build the capacity of higher education leaders to: 1) share practices and strategies regarding integration of climate solutions into cross-disciplinary curriculum, 2) understand and find climate connections across departments and campus; and 3) increase the learning outcomes and practical experience for higher education students. Through this project, faculty and staff will develop improved teaching strategies and workforce development practices, empower students to increase their climate solution efforts, and integrate geoscience resources and research into cross-disciplinary materials and on-campus living lab opportunities.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.