Transforming Higher Education

FRIDAY AFTERNOON SESSION: October 16, 2009
2:45pm – 4:15pm

How can we fundamentally re-design our institutions of higher learning to act as leaders of sustainability and equip new generations to usher in a greener future?

With: Two of the nation’s most influential Ecoliteracy visionaries of higher education:

• David Orr, chair of Oberlin’s Environmental Studies Department
• Anthony Cortese, founder of Second Nature

• Julian Keniry, senior director, Campus and Community Leadership, National Wildlife Federation
• Crystal Durham, executive director of the California Student Sustainability Coalition.

Moderated by: Steven Swig, co-founder and president emeritus of Presidio World College.

Location: A3

Topic Areas: Ecological Design; Environmental Education; Social/Environmental Activism

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