Krista Hiser·PinnedEveryone is Complete: Human Ecology and the Nursing Curriculuman interview with Dr. Shanti Shrinivas — I’ve done over fifty interviews now in the Teaching Climate Change in Higher Education study and this live field notes blog. All the transcripts are waiting for me in MAXQDA, but I keep extending the study because I keep meeting amazing educators doing transformative teaching in college courses across every…Nursing10 min readNursing10 min read
Krista Hiser·Oct 26, 2022“How to be a Shrub: Transdisciplinary Thinking and the Making of a Deep Generalist”Interview with Dr. Tina Evans, Colorado Mountain College — I first encountered Tina Evans during the literature review stage of my doctoral dissertation, circa 2005, when I was devouring everything I could find about sustainability curriculum in higher education. I had started out in Educational Psychology, but switched to Educational Administration when my advisor told me that my proposed…Sustainability Education10 min readSustainability Education10 min read
Krista Hiser·Jun 15, 2022Writing a Manifestowith fisherman-poet-teacher Scott T. Starbuck — “ Not everything that is faced can be solved, but nothing can be solved until it is faced.” — James Baldwin I started the Teaching Climate Change in Higher Education research project in the halcyon January of 2020. I am nearing the fiftieth post, which means the fiftieth interview, which…Sustainability Education9 min readSustainability Education9 min read
Krista Hiser·May 18, 2022“Hey, Got a Light?” How Chemistry, Law, and Climate Justice are RelatedWhat does the film, Youth v. Gov. mean for higher education? — Think about it: the rights of youth in the climate crisis came into the spotlight when Greta Thunberg started Skolstrejk för klimatet — which if you don’t speak Swedish well, translates into English as a SCHOOL strike. Sure, they were in high school then (and we college professors love to…Youth Climate Activism10 min readYouth Climate Activism10 min read
Krista Hiser·Mar 14, 2022How to Properly Inflate Your Tires (and You Are the Tire)a guest interview with Dr. Miku Lenentine, Coordinator of the Center for Resilient Neighborhoods at Kapi’olani Community College I have a group of favorite colleagues who are amazing teachers. I’ve interviewed some of them for this blog: Chih-Hao (“A Ham Sandwich is Better than Nothing”, Linda, (“This is not just…Faculty Development10 min readFaculty Development10 min read
Krista Hiser·Feb 1, 2022“Earth on Trajectory to Sixth Extinction, say Biologists”Considering the film Don’t Look Up from the perspective of higher education This actual headline caught my eye, even though it was buried in the links of my weekly campus bulletin. In a nine-paragraph press release, I learned that University of Hawaii biologist Robert Cowie, collaborating with French researchers, had…Climate Change Education8 min readClimate Change Education8 min read
Krista Hiser·Apr 27, 2021A hopely adventure in tumultuous times: in good company with Panu PihkalaField Notes: Teaching Climate Change in Higher Education If there’s one thing to know about me, it’s that I love reading. I consider it my HABU — the Highest and Best Use for my time and energy. This works out well for me to be an English professor, and it…Climate Change Education16 min readClimate Change Education16 min read
Krista Hiser·Mar 2, 2021It Needs to Be Done, and Here I AmSera, the Conservation Biologist, #28 in the Teaching Climate Change study “I’m very clear about the reason I teach. I was drawn to teaching because I wanted to share information about environmental science. I remember sitting in class and being like, people need to know this.” — Sera I am…Climate Education12 min readClimate Education12 min read
Krista Hiser·Dec 3, 2020Is that So? Professional Development, Equanimity, and the Life Path of Faculty (Sebastian, #27)Field notes: Teaching Climate Change in Higher Education — Sometimes, when I think that higher ed in the United States is really falling apart fast, with absolutely zero vision for meeting the planetary climate crisis that unfolding before our eyes, I visit websites of small, alternative colleges. Just to ground myself, and think for a minute. I love colleges…Higher Education Reform8 min readHigher Education Reform8 min read
Krista Hiser·Dec 2, 2020The Union of the Preposterous: Playfully Engaging with Climate ChangeField Notes: Teaching Climate Change Guest Interview with Casey Meehan Very few college teachers receive any training in teaching. And very few of the professors that I interview as part of the Teaching Climate Change study actually set out to become educators — there are a lot of “happy accidents”…Worldfulness12 min readWorldfulness12 min read
