CESIF – Mit

The MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative’s (ESI’s) Climate, Environment, and Sustainability Infusion Fellowship (CESIF) launched in February 2023 to empower faculty across MIT to cross their disciplinary boundaries and embed topics of climate science, the environment, and sustainability (CES) into the regular undergraduate curriculum.

Chris Rabe

The Climate, Environment, and Sustainability Infusion Fellowship (CESIF): An Interim Update with Initial Findings

By infusing CES topics into regular undergraduate subjects, MIT students will be introduced to the critical challenges facing society today and the pathways toward planetary sustainability tomorrow.

The Fellowship will have a duration of two years and provide the faculty with funding and opportunities to:

Build community in a cohort of faculty and instructors across disciplines;
Engage in monthly meetings to learn about innovative CES content knowledge and pedagogical methodologies, work with CES area experts and speakers, workshop new instructional material, and get feedback from peers, ESI staff, and visiting experts;
Work closely with peer fellows for additional accountability and feedback; and
Have access to a shared online platform for instructional support.

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