Professional Development
Earth Ethics Institute offers professional development opportunities in collaboration with the Center for Institutional and Organizational Learning (CIOL). Participants can earn FPD credit towards maintenance of rank and promotion while working towards GSELS certification.
Current Offerings (scroll down for multiple listings)
Menu for the Future
A Professional Development Discussion Series Offering 12 Hours of Credit
Menu for the Future invites participants to learn more about modern food systems and to reflect upon their own role as eaters in a global food marketplace. This four-part discussion series explores our intimate connection to what we eat, and how what we eat may, in many ways, define us and our connection to Earth. The readings consider food from multiple perspectives—cultural, economic, and ecological—each presenting a different, though often complementary, angle on the complex modern food systems upon which most of us depend.
Facilitated by:
Michael Matthews, MS
Earth Ethics Institute Collegewide Director
Four Wednesdays (new dates!): February 19, March 5, March 19, April 4Time: first session is noon - 1:00 PM, subsequent sessions noon - 1:30 PM
Location: Virtual, via MS Teams (a link will be provided)
Registration link: EEI1033-2
Immersion: Everglades National Park
A Professional Development Field Immersion Offering 8 Hours of Credit
This immersion for MDC faculty/staff offers participants an overview of South Florida ecology and hydrology by providing a direct field experience of the unique Everglades ecosystem. Participants will explore such habitats as the freshwater slough, sawgrass marsh, tropical hardwood hammock, and the globally imperiled pine rockland, along the way learning about local sustainability issues affecting our watershed and fragile natural areas as well as the plants and animals that make their home in the Everglades bioregion.
Co-facilitated by:Kiki Mutis, MS Institute for Civic Engagement and Democracy (iCED) Wolfson Campus Director
Michael Matthews, MS
Earth Ethics Institute Collegewide Director
Date: Saturday, February 8, 2025
Time: 8:30 AM - 2:30 PM
Registration link: EEI1021-4
Earth Literacy Lesson Plans
EEI has collected lesson plans from MDC faculty and staff who have completed EEI/CIOL professional development. Faculty are invited to browse this extensive collection of lesson plans across a wide variety of disciplines for ideas on how to incorporate Earth Literacy and sustainability into their curriculum!
Note: Must be using @mdc.edu email to view.