Congratulations UN SDG Fellows & Wilson School of Design!

Congratulations to Monica Affleck and Reynold Vaz, recipients of the 2021-22 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals Open Pedagogy Fellowship!

This fellowship is designed to assist faculty with creating renewable assignments (all of which will carry a Creative Commons license) to help students become agents of change in their own communities.  Each fellowship team (which will include at least one faculty member from KPU and one faculty member from a partner institution will design three renewable assignments during the Summer 2021 semester.  A minimum of two renewable assignments will be deployed in the classes of each fellowship team during the subsequent academic year. 

Congratulations to the Wilson School of Design on its second  Zero Textbook Cost (ZTC) program—the Bachelor of Interior Design!

KPU’s ZTC programs allow students to pursue an education without spending a cent on textbooks. The IDSN program joins the Wilson School of Design’s Certificate in Foundations in Design along with five other ZTC programs. Search the KPU timetable to find a growing list of for-credit courses without the cost of textbooks. Students who enrol in this four-year program can expect to save money!

Hear what Lucie Gagne, Chair of Interior Design, has to say:

“Our Interior Design Program is a highly regarded program, one that, in large part, focusses on student success. Given the global economy and issues of fundamental affordability, we have made it a priority to ensure the program remains viable and sustainable by finding cost savings strategies for our students. We are thrilled that we have been able to implement making the Interior Design Degree a Zero Textbook Costs (ZTC) program”

-Lucie Gagne, Chair of the Interior Design Program

Best,

	Urooj Nizami; MISt, MA (she/her) Open Education Strategist, Office of Open Education Kwantlen Polytechnic University e urooj.nizami@kpu.ca w www.kpu.ca/open Subscribe to the KPU Open listserv here
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