ABSTRACT
Wake Forest is a place ripe for exploration of the nexus of values, skills, and wisdom. Like most of the places in the southeastern United States, it is a landscape rife with deep temporal and social wounds. Wake Forest is pursuing engaged education and education for sustainability simultaneously. Wake Forest has pursued the former model, attempting to integrate sustainability learning outcomes across the educational spectrum, from student orientation to commencement. Other universities have found different ways to conceive of encouraging the sort of transdisciplinary learning characteristic of problem-based and engaged pedagogies, for instance introducing a core sustainability course required by all students, or an internship-based capston. The commitment to sustainability was driven both from the top down and from the bottom up. Ulrike Wiethaus was working with youth from the Eastern Band of Cherokee in North Carolina, helping them train for the MCAT exams, and also on a literacy program with inmates at a maximum-security prison.
