The Willamette University Center for Sustainable Communities is pleased to support and encourage rigorous scholarship and teaching that enhances both our understanding of sustainability and its practice within our communities. In doing so, we affirm our vision of a Center for Sustainable Communities that advances academic excellence while focusing the University’s expertise on the fundamental dilemma of our generation—creating sustainable and resilient ecological and social communities which balance the needs and wants of present generations with those of the generations which follow.
In line with the University’s commitment to a robust and interdisciplinary conception of sustainability that embraces President Pelton’s “Four E’s of Sustainability”— Equity, Environment, Economy, and Education, the Center seeks to encourage and support sustainability research and teaching across the disciplines and colleges—from Art and Anthropology to Marketing, Law, Science, and Theater. All grants are offered on a competitive basis.
The Center for Sustainable Communities offers grants for faculty development in three categories: a Faculty Fellow Study Time and Research Grant of $12,000; Faculty Fellow Research Grants of up to $5000; and Sustainability Curriculum Development Grants of up to $3000. Applicants for faculty research grants may apply for an additional $1000 grant to be paid toward a student research assistant associated with the research project.
1. Faculty Fellow Study Time and Research Grants
2. Faculty Fellow Research Grants
3. Sustainability Curriculum Development Grants