February 4th, 2025: Connecting Climate Change and Business: Making Climate Science Relevant to Undergraduate Business Students with Tamara Ledley
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Abstract: The Connecting Climate Change and Business Semester Project, implemented in a Global Climate Change course at Bentley University, an undergraduate business school, enables students to explore how climate change is impacting and is impacted by a company and consider how that company is and should integrate climate change information into its decision making. The project has three parts: a Wikipedia contribution, the Final Paper and Final Presentation. The Wikipedia contribution is completely fact based drawn from secondary vetted resources and provides students the opportunity to inform the public beyond the university. In the Final Paper students' express opinions about what the company is and should be doing about climate change. In the Final Presentation students share what they could do as an entry level employee to help their company address climate change. Pre- and post-course surveys provide insight into the impact this innovation had on students' understanding of the relevance of climate change for businesses.
Bio: Dr. Tamara Shapiro Ledley is a STEM education consultant, Earth and climate scientist, an En-ROADS Climate Ambassador, an Adjunct Professor at Bentley University, and co-founder of the CLEAN Network and the founding PI of the CLEAN Collection. She was a 2017 Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative Fellow and served as a senior scientist and chair of the Center for STEM Teaching and Learning at TERC. Dr. Ledley is the 2013 American Geophysical Union's Excellence in Geophysical Education Awardee and received Bentley University's Innovation in Teaching Award in 2024 for her work to make climate science relevant to business students future careers.
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