Education Into Action
CEI's Education into Action programs convene student-faculty teams to address priority environmental challenges with local communities. Projects are multi-year, interdisciplinary, cross-sector, and culminate in the implementation of pilot projects i local communities. Projects are collaboratively identified and addressed by a Leadership Team composed of agencies, organizations, and universities who work together to explore new solutions that might never be imagined through traditional structures. The goals of these programs are to:
- increase and broaden SSU contributions to North Bay sustainability and resilience challenges
- create a trained workforce with knowledge and expertise needed to create a North Bay resilient to increasing wildfire
Education into Action is organized into four programs that address challenges surrounding water (Rising Waters), fire (Fire Up), forests (Forest Futures), and land management (Eco Edge). For each program is guided by a steering committee composed of community leaders, faculty, and students from a wide variety of sectors and disciplines. The committee identifies emerging challenges, secures funding, and engages faculty-student teams to conduct actionable research and inquiry that results in community pilot projects.
Services provided by CEI staff include:
- Challenge Identification: Forming steering committees, hosting workshops and symposiums, and securing funding.
- Project Identification: Breaking down identified challenges into bite-sized projects compatible with academic disciplines and schedules,
- Actionable Results: Recruiting faculty and students, hosting coordination meetings to ensure that investigations result in actionable formats
- Sharing Project Results: Distributing results through faculty-student presentations, reports, and web archives
- Multi-Project Integration: Integrating results from multiple academic teams and proposing and implementing pilot projects.
CEI Education into Action programs are made possible through contracts and donations. Please consider a donation to support this effort.
