Cultivating sustainability through undergraduate research and writing

2011 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference Pub Date : 2011-11-28 DOI:10.1109/IPCC.2011.6087231

M. Feldman, Kimberly Moekle, J. Peterson

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The Stanford Undergraduate Sustainability Scholars (SUSS) fosters engagement with sustainability by supporting undergraduates in creative and persuasive communication targeting an audience of their peers. Our broadest goal is to incubate new ways of talking about and representing sustainability, such that individuals and institutions are motivated to act and cooperate. We do this by working in two areas: 1) in our inaugural year we sponsored two sustainability scholars who carried out ambitious research projects exploring some intersection of the Stanford campus and sustainability 2) we run a blog, SUSSing Sustainability @ Stanford that is an expansive forum for undergraduate writing, art, and projects pertaining to sustainability. This essay details the evolution of the SUSS program and describes a model for supporting undergraduates to reflect on, synthesize and communicate about sustainability-related issues. SUSS is sponsored by an undergraduate writing program; this is critical because many challenges of sustainability will be solved not only through science and policy, but also through writing, communication, and rhetoric. SUSS helps students develop rhetorical and communicative skills to become ambassadors and coalition builders for sustainability, on campus and beyond.

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通过本科生研究和写作培养可持续发展

斯坦福大学本科生可持续发展学者(SUSS)通过支持本科生针对同龄人进行创造性和有说服力的交流，促进对可持续发展的参与。我们最广泛的目标是培育谈论和代表可持续性的新方式，从而激励个人和机构采取行动并进行合作。我们在两个方面开展工作:1)在我们成立的第一年，我们资助了两位可持续发展学者，他们开展了雄心勃勃的研究项目，探索斯坦福校园与可持续发展的一些交叉点;2)我们运营了一个博客，SUSSing sustainability @ Stanford，这是一个与可持续发展有关的本科生写作、艺术和项目的广阔论坛。本文详细介绍了SUSS项目的演变，并描述了一个支持本科生反思、综合和交流可持续发展相关问题的模型。SUSS由本科生写作项目赞助;这一点至关重要，因为可持续发展的许多挑战不仅要通过科学和政策来解决，还要通过写作、交流和修辞来解决。SUSS帮助学生培养修辞和沟通技巧，成为校园内外可持续发展的大使和联盟建设者。

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