Sustainability initiatives in higher education are growing in importance. This case study may guide faculty at other institutions who seek to gain deeper insight into the state of sustainability education where they work. Members of the Vancouver Island University Sustainability Advisory Committee hosted a workshop for faculty, students, and staff to explore how sustainability is incorporated into teaching and learning at the institution, to share perspectives, and examine ways to enhance individual and collective pedagogical practices. A World Café activity posed four questions for participants to answer as they rotated between tables. The resulting qualitative data was content analyzed and interpreted. Key themes and categories from data concerning participants' successes and inspirations while teaching and learning at VIU, challenges and barriers in blending sustainability into coursework, faculty's perceptions of student perspectives of sustainability in VIU courses, and about resources and opportunities to integrate sustainability in interdisciplinary courses are reported and discussed. This case study differs from research in that it does not describe an evaluation of a program but, rather, explicates a process that faculty working at a new university can use to elicit information from their peers and develop networks to engage their university in interdisciplinary sustainability for years to come.
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