Creating Connections across Communities through High-Impact Practices:A Case Study of Chandler-Gilbert Community College’s Sustainability Program

摘要

Sustainability education is more crucial than ever. High-impact practices, such as hands-on undergraduate research projects and service learning, can help to make the teaching and learning of sustainability relevant through the possibilities they openfor convergence education. This case study describes how Chandler-Gilbert Community College revised and revitalized its sustainability program, as well as the evolution, since 2015, of its annual service-learning event. Sustainability Day. Curriculum isdeveloped by using the overarching issues of climate change with subthemes of water, biodiversity, renewable energy, carbon footprint, and ethnobotany, among others. The case study demonstrates how such a program and event inspired collaboration betweenthe campus and the community involving everyone in finding solutions to sustainability challenges in the face of climate change and points to the potential for deep learning for college students.