Center for Sustainability

Florida Gulf Coast University is a school that takes environmental preservation very seriously. Through organizations created by students and faculty FGCU is always taking measures to raise students’ awareness of the environment. One organization is the Center for Environmental and Sustainability Education, which actively encourages students to help our environment and provide our generation with a secure and safe future. Using innovative educational research methods, emergent eco-pedagogies, educational philosophy and practice based on ethics of care and sustainability the CESE educates the understanding of environmental goals for FGCU students. The CESE has four main goals that they are trying to achieve. The first is to advance innovative educational research methodologies. The CESE achieves this by doing local and global research. Not only does the CESE do research of the environment, but it also works on making people ecologically literate and advance civic engagement in the critical environmental issues of the Western Everglades and Barrier. This is the CESE’s second goal. Their third goal is to educate the faculty about environmental sustainability. And finally the fourth goal of the CESE is to provide opportunities to help the environment to students and faculties so that the CESE can achieve their environmental mission at FGCU. Resources provided for the students by the CESE are the Earth Charter Youth Iniative, Orion Grassroots Network, National Wildlife Federation Campus Ecology Program, and service learning programs.