The Climate Change Certificate is interdisciplinary, which includes faculty, courses, and collaborations across five Colleges at SF State. The certificate is governed through a campus-wide Steering Committee that isn’t held within a particular academic unit, but is representative of the wider university.
The Climate Change Certificate Steering Committee provides oversight of practical issues including program size, student recruitment, certificate advising, faculty and course recruitment into the Certificate, design and evaluation of curriculum, curricular revisions, developing and carrying out program assessment, and other academic and administrative issues.
The Steering Committee reflects interdisciplinary points of view. As climate change undoubtedly has the largest impact on communities of color, it is important that the committee as a whole reflect multiple dimensions of diversity.
The Steering Committee consists of 7 to 14 voting members, and includes up to 4 students, and 5 to 10 lecturer or tenured/tenure-trackT/TT faculty. Each academic college that houses a course in the certificate can have up to 2 faculty representatives on the Committee.
The Steering Committee bylaws can be found here.
The current Climate Change Certificate Steering Committee members are:
Faculty Members
- Kai Burrus, Professor of Biology, Co-Director Climate HQ
- Gopal Dayaneni, Lecturer Faculty
- Logan Hennessy, Associate Professor of Liberal Studies
- Aritree Samanta, Associate Professor in the School of the Environment, Steering Committee Chair, Co-Director Climate HQ
- Autumn Thoyre, Associate Professor in the School of the Environment, Co-Director Climate HQ
Student Members
- Skylar Aldridge, Department of Recreation, Parks & Tourism with Holistic Health Studies
- Gwenndolyn Campbell, Department of Biology
- Kora Spiak, School of the Environment
- Raine Yenlinn, School of the Environment
Past Members
Faculty Members
- Sami Reist, Professor in Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts (BECA)
- Alexander (Zan) Stine, Professor in the School of the Environment
Student Members
- Nicholas Rackard-Hilt, School of the Environment
- Justine Kanzler, Department of Broadcast and Electronic Communication Arts (BECA)
- Elizabeth McGraw, School of the Environment