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Sustainability Faculty Fellow
The Sustainability Faculty Fellow (SFF) worked closely with the Office of Sustainability in Facilities Management, the Center for Teaching and Learning, the Colleges, and the Office of the Provost to implement and evaluate programs to support sustainability during AY 21-22, AY 22-23, and AY 23-24. Read more
Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow
The TEK Faculty Fellow is a Cal Poly Humboldt faculty member whose role is to promote Traditional Ecological Knowledge (TEK) and Indigenous Science within the university system.
Trillium Project
The Trillium Project is a Humboldt based faculty development program that advances sustainability across the curriculum. The Sustainability Learning Retreat is a part of the Trillium Project and is hosted each year. Through these offerings Cal Poly Humboldt is recognized as a Center for Sustainability Across the Curriculum, a program which aims to accelerate the infusion of sustainability content into curriculum by partnering with institutions of higher education to offer workshops and other professional development opportunities.
See the 2025 Trillium Project Conference curated content.
Contact Sustainability Librarian Morgan Barker (mew11@humboldt.edu) to inquire about future programs.
Sustainability Librarian
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The Cal Poly Humboldt Library has a dedicated Sustainability Librarian to support students, staff and faculty in academics and research specific to sustainability topics. In the Summer of 2025 the Library was awarded Sustainable Library Certification from the Sustainable Libraries Initiative. Librarians at Cal Poly Humboldt promote and integrate sustainable, accessible practices into the development, management, and delivery of library resources and services, using methods grounded in socially just and environmentally and economically sound principles. This includes how information and materials are created, accessed, taught, and stewarded over time. Librarians also collaborate across disciplines to embed sustainability principles into curricula, research, and projects, ensuring practices that support ecological, cultural, and educational reverence.
Cal Poly Humboldt Library Sustainability Research Guide
Morgan Barker, Sustainability Librarian
(707) 826-4930, Office LIB 206
The Press at Cal Poly Humboldt Cal Poly Humboldt is home to the CSU Journal of Sustainability and Climate Change which offers a place for Journal Articles, Student Research Briefs and Conference Proceedings.
Sustainable Learning at the Library centers student life and needs - advocating for open, accessible, inclusive, affordable education for lifelong learning.
OER/AL$ Open Educational Resources, CSU Affordable Learning Solutions Program
Faculty Professional Development
Oct 2025 Faculty Learning Retreat flyer
(Advancing Sustainability Across the Curriculum)
- Goal- Gather for a combination of indoor and outdoor experiences at the Sequoia Park Zoo. It will be a day of authentic connection, case studies from Cal Poly Humboldt faculty, and reflection activities—surrounded by redwoods, gardens, skywalks, and animals. Healthy, local food included. *limited to first 30 registrations
- Number of participants - 24 in-person attendees; 37 people signed up for asynchronous exploration of the tools
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: catered meals, rental of Sequoia Zoo Conference Center Flamingo Room (3414 W Street, Eureka, CA 95501) space; all programming offered at no cost to attendees; stipend payment to presenters; contract credit to in-person attendees
- Led by campus facilitators Morgan Barker (Sustainability Librarian), Leah Choi (CNRS Librarian), Katie Koscielak (Sustainability Analyst & Faculty lecturer ENST & GEOG)
- Supporting docs
- Book- The Water Remembers: My Indigenous Family’s Fight to Save a River and a Way of Life by Amy Bowers Cordalis of the Yurok Tribe
- Goal: Explore real-world, place-based application of the themes of Indigenous resistance and sovereignty by Yurok Tribal members in the Klamath basin, environmental justice, rights to land, water, fish, and “the enduring power of Indigenous knowledge, family legacy, and the determination to ensure that future generations remember what it means to live in balance with the earth,” (synopsis from Hachette Book Group).
- 19 faculty/staff participants from 16 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow; wages allocated for an assistant to support the program
- Led by faculty Dr. Kaitlin Reed
- Meeting times: weekly on Fridays, 8- 9:30 a.m. on Zoom, October 31 through December 5, 2025.
Spring 2025- Indigenizing Your Curriculum Faculty Workshop
- What was it: Two-part workshop on anti-colonial curriculum development for Cal Poly Humboldt faculty. Included work sessions, guest presentations from Native American Studies faculty, and opportunities to discuss and share curricula feedback with peer faculty.
- Goal: Provide space for faculty members to design ways to incorporate Indigenous and decolonial scholarship into curricula
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?:WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow; wages allocated for an assistant to support the program; catered lunch for participants
- Led by Dr. Kaitlin Reed and the Native American Studies department
- Meeting times: May 15th and 16th from 10 AM - 2 PM
- Book - The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Goal: Consider lessons of “how to orient our lives around gratitude, reciprocity, and community, based on the lessons of the natural world” can apply to teaching sustainability, especially by challenging contemporary notions of economic exchange by juxtaposing them with the “gift economy” of the serviceberry: “The tree distributes its wealth—its abundance of sweet, juicy berries—to meet the needs of its natural community. And this distribution insures its own survival,” (from https://birchbarkbooks.com/products/the-serviceberry).
- 20 faculty / staff participants from 15 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow; wages allocated for an assistant to support the program
- Led by faculty Dr. Kaitlin Reed
- Meetings times: five group discussion sessions held from 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM on Wednesdays via Zoom, beginning 2/19/2025 and ending 3/26/2025.
Jan 2024 Faculty Learning Retreat flyer
(Advancing Sustainability Across the Curriculum)
- Goal- Develop tools by which to integrate sustainability into your course (format draws heavily from the Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University and adapted at Emory in the Piedmont Project regarding integrating sustainability across the curriculum)
- Number of participants still to be determined (as of Dec 2023)
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: catered meals, rental of Humboldt Coastal Nature Center (220 Stamps Ln, Arcata, CA 95521) space; all programming offered at no cost to attendees; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Sustainability Fellow
- Led by campus facilitators Dr. Jennifer Ortega, Morgan Barker, Katie Koscielak
- Book- Ka'm-t'em: A Journey Toward Healing by Dr. Kishan Lara-Cooper and Walter J. Lara Sr.
- Goal: Explore “Indigenous testimonials of resistance, renewal, advocacy, resilience, beauty, and awakening” and encourage faculty to engage with the notion that “In the sharing and in the listening of Indigenous testimonials, we are reminded of the beauty and the strength within us. The precious knowledge shared in this book inspires reclamation of identity and encourages readers to seek, search, embrace, and value their own truth,” (from https://kamtem-indigenousknowledge.com/book-info/).
- 21 faculty / staff participants from 18 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow; wages allocated for an assistant to support the program
- Led by faculty Dr. Kaitlin Reed
- Meeting times: from October 4 - November 8, 2024, and weekly meetings will be held on Fridays from 1 - 2:30 PM on Zoom.
- Book - Carbon Sovereignty: Coal, Development and Energy Transition in the Navajo Nation by Dr. Andrew Curley (Diné)
- Goal: Engage with the author’s examination of “the history of coal development within the Navajo Nation, including why some Diné supported coal and the consequences of doing so” and explore the notions of “capitalism through colonialism and the construction of resource sovereignty, in both the Navajo Nation’s embrace and its rejection of a coal economy,” (from https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/carbon-sovereignty).
- 18 faculty / staff participants from 14 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow; wages allocated for an assistant to support the program
- Led by faculty Dr. Kaitlin Reed
- Meeting times: 5 group discussion sessions held from 11:30am - 1:00pm on Wednesday afternoons (beginning 02/21/2024)
- Book- Settler Cannabis: From Gold Rush to Green Rush in Indigenous Northern California by Kaitlin Reed
- Goal: Explore the notion of "resource rushing" in Northern CA through the lens of Indigenous sovereignty, science, and history
- 19 faculty/staff participants from 13 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow; wages allocated for an assistant to support the program
- Led by faculty Dr. Kaitlin Reed
- Book- Traditional Ecological Knowledge: Learning from Indigenous Practices for Environmental Sustainability Edited by Melissa K. Nelson and Dan Shilling
- Goal: Explore essays and chapters that "define, interrogate, and problematize the many definitions of Traditional Ecological Knowledge and sustainability"
- 21 faculty/staff participants from 18 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow; wages allocated for an assistant to support the program
- Led by faculty Dr. Kaitlin Reed
- Goal- Become familiar with the philosophy of change in higher education developed through the Ponderosa Project at Northern Arizona University and adapted at Emory in the Piedmont Project regarding integrating sustainability across the curriculum.
- 8 participants joined the workshop from 5 CSU campuses spanning disciplines of History, Chemistry, Business, Religious Studies, Environmental Studies, and Geography, among others.
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: paid facilitator expert, catered lunch, rented Humboldt Coastal Nature Center (220 Stamps Ln, Arcata, CA 95521) space; all programming offered at no cost to attendees; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator who serves as Sustainability Fellow
- Led by guest facilitator Dr. Geoffrey Chase; coordination supported by Dr. Jennifer Ortega
- Book- Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science by Jessica Hernandez
- Goal: Build language and literacy around Latinx Indigeneity of Central and South America within environmental discourse
- 24 faculty/staff participants from 16 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; WTU time buyout for faculty facilitator via creation of ongoing Traditional Ecological Knowledge Fellow
- Led by faculty Dr. Kaitlin Reed
Spring 2022 Faculty Learning information
- CSU Systemwide collaboration (6 participating campuses, including Cal Poly Humboldt)
- Goals: With a focus on climate change & resilience, modify course curriculum, network with colleagues doing similar work, and design pedagogy that invokes solutions
- 6 Cal Poly Humboldt faculty participants; 61 participants total across CSU
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: Stipends for participants who provided required evidence of modifications to their course
- Led by Chico State Faculty Mark Stemen
- Book- Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, & the Teaching of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer
- Goal: Increase awareness of reciprocal relationships with human and non-human relatives via Indigenous ways of knowing
- 18 faculty/staff participants from 11 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants; stipends provided to guest speakers from Tribal nations
- Led by faculty Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy & Dr. Kaitlin Reed, and Sustainability Staff Katie Koscielak
Fall 2021 Speaker Series flyer
- Series Name: Decolonizing Sustainablity: Amplifying Indigenous Perspectives & Transforming Sustainability Discourse
- Goal: Increase literacy and understanding of Indigenous and decolonial sustainability perspectives
- 331 summative audience members attended on Zoom in real-time
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: stipends for guest panelists
- # of events: 4 (access recordings here)
- Led by faculty Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy & Dr. Kaitlin Reed, and Sustainability Staff Katie Koscielak
- Book- We Are the Land: A History of Native California by Damon B. Akins and William J. Bauer Jr.
- Goal: Foreground Indigenous history of place when teaching about land and resources in California
- 19 faculty/staff participants from 12 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books purchased for participants
- Led by faculty Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy & Dr. Kaitlin Reed, and Sustainability Staff Katie Koscielak
- Book- As Long As Grass Grows: The Fight for Indigenous Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock by Dina Gilio-Whitaker
- Goal: Explore Indigenous Environmental Justice as a lens for environmental educators
- 19 faculty participants from 14 departments
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: books, mugs, Pomo acorn bites purchased for participants
- Led by faculty Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy & Dr. Kaitlin Reed, and Sustainability Staff Katie Koscielak
Spring 2020 Faculty Learning Community information
- Campus specific program
- What did the institution materially or financially invest in this program?: stipends for participants
- Led by faculty Jennifer Ortega and Sustainability Staff Morgan King