Global Environmental Change University of Texas summer institute for teachers, encompasses the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex and Big Bend National Park to study impact of man on the environment. From the University of Washington. An independent institution of higher education dedicated to the study of social ecology. ISE offers intensive summer programs, a year-round B.A. degree program, workshops on issues such as biotechnology, fall and winter lecture series, internship opportunities, and a speakers bureau. The teacher training institute for middle level educators, designed to bring the concepts of sustainability to the classroom through hands-on activities.
Students commence a community investigation and then implement a community action project.
The curriculum is aligned to National Learning Standards. The education department provides teacher training, a variety of lectures, workshops and conferences, and children's programs. The institutes are fully funded and teachers are offered a stipend. Applications for 2001 will be available online in early October, 2000. A program of the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation.