Wake Forest University faculty members are invited to enhance their teaching by participating in the Magnolias Curriculum Project taking place May 21 – 22, 2025. In this workshop, faculty across disciplines are invited to explore how they can engage with the environment and sustainability issues in their teaching. To date, 120 Wake Forest faculty have gone through the workshop.
No prior experience with sustainability-related issues in the classroom or in research is necessary, and faculty at all ranks and career stages are welcome. This innovative approach to curricular change, modeled on the nationally renowned Piedmont Project at Emory University, provides faculty with an intellectually stimulating and collegial experience to pool their expertise.
The workshop will explore how you can meaningfully integrate sustainability—broadly defined—into your courses. Although we start by taking a close look at Wake Forest University and the larger Piedmont region, we invite participants to engage in local-to-global comparisons.
The Magnolias Project kicks off with a two-day workshop that will offer opportunities to extend research and teaching horizons across disciplines and create new networks with fellow colleagues. Following the workshop, faculty participants prepare discipline-specific course materials on their own over the summer. Participants receive a stipend of $500 upon completion of a new or revised syllabus.
Project participants agree to:
- Read some materials prior to the workshop
- Participate in the full 2-day workshop on May 21 – 22, 2025
- Commit time during the summer to prepare or revise a syllabus and submit it in August
- Rejoin colleagues in the fall to discuss their insights and experiences.
Applications will be accepted through March 17, 2025.
Browse the Magnolias or Piedmont Project websites for example syllabi and faculty statements. Still uncertain? Read what previous participants had to say about their time in the program!