The 1994-1995 Teachers Institutes for Sustainable Development was a two year project cosponsored by Sarah Lawrence College, the City of Yonkers, The Westchester Land Trust and the United Nations Environment Programme and supported by the Dwight D. Eisenhower Leadership Development Program grant under the U.S. Department of Education.
The 10-day Institutes were held August 15-26, 1994 and August 14-25, 1995, including three follow-up workshops. In total thirty-six teachers and twelve Sarah Lawrence College students participated in the summer institutes. The objective of the program was to teach middle school teachers from southern Westchester County urban public schools to more fully understand the relationships between critical ecological and economic issues, and to develop creative activities for middle school students so that capacity building might begin for the environmental leaders of the 21st century.
The programs were developed by a steering committee led by the Institute Co-Directors- Dr. Charlotte A. Price and Dr. Raymond D. Clarke- and the Institute Coordinator, Alice W. Bamberger.
Alice Bamberger a former high school biology teacher received her B.A. in Biology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and her M.S. in Science Education from Iona College. She was the coordinator of the 1994 and 1995 Teachers Institute for Sustainable Development. Her role consisted of coordinating the recruitment of the participants and the college students, managing the budget, arranging follow-up workshops and preparing final reports.
For a complete history and detailed information of the Teachers Institute for Sustainable Development see the Institute’s Final Report.
The collection consists of administrative documentation, as well as materials used for the 1994 and 1995 Teachers Institutes for Sustainable Development. Some of the materials include general correspondence, press releases, newspaper clippings, meeting minutes, applications, reports, evaluations, handouts, notebooks, schedules, budget and additional funding information and speaker’s resumes and bios. The collection is divided into two series:
The folders that contain the meeting minutes in Series I also include other material relating to the meeting such as agendas, correspondence, articles, attendance lists, and notes. In addition, the follow up correspondence in Series II are letters between Alice Bamberger, the Institute Coordinator, and some former Institute participants that continued working with Sustainable Development projects in their schools and/or their communities. Some other folders contain copies of the agenda and schedules for the 1994 and 1995 Summer Institutes as well as copies of the faculty/speakers list. All folders are arranged alphabetically.
All photographs were removed from the collection and housed with the photograph collection under Academic Programs and Services – Teachers Institute for Sustainable Development. Photocopies of the images were placed in the folders from which they were removed.
Restricted or Closed folders are marked as such in the finding aid and on the folder itself. Generally, folders are restricted due to correspondence with members of the public with which copyright does not reside with the College Archives. Photocopies are not allowed for this correspondence. Please ask the Archivist for further assistance with restricted folders.
Contains general correspondence, correspondence among the Institute’s directors and the U.S. Department of Education and other partner organizations, applications, reports, and speakers’ resumes and bios for both Institutes. The series is divided into two sub-series: Sub-series A. General; Sub-series B. Steering Committee.
Consists of evaluations, correspondence, workshop material, handouts, notebooks, and schedules.
Applications, 1994 (contains RESTRICTED material)
Applications, 1995 (RESTRICTED)
Correspondence – Alice Bamberger, 1993-1996
Correspondence – Charlotte Price, 1993-1996
Correspondence – Copyright, 1994-1995
Correspondence – General, 1993-1995
Correspondence – U.S. Department of Education, 1993-1996
Correspondence – Westchester Land Trust, 1993-1995
Environmental Protection Agency, 1995
Faculty Bios and Resumes, n.d (RESTRICTED)
Faculty Bios and Resumes, 1993, 1995 (RESTRICTED)
Food and Transportation Requests, 1994-1995
Future Institutes and Additional Funding, 1995
Miscellaneous, 1992-1996
Participant Lists, 1994-1995 (RESTRICTED)
Participant Stipends and Salaries, 1994-1996 (RESTRICTED)
Reports – Final 1, 1994
Report – Final 2, 1996
Report – Interim, 1994
Student Applications, 1995 (RESTRICTED)
Westchester Land Trust Thank You Letters, 1994
Budget, 1993-1996 (contains RESTRICTED material)
Eisenhower Grant Proposal, 1994
Faculty Correspondence and Releases, 1994-1995 (RESTRICTED)
Minutes, July 1992
Minutes, June 1993 - December 1993
Minutes, January 1994
Minutes, February 1994
Minutes, March 1994
Minutes, April 1994 - June 1994
Minutes, November 1994
Minutes, December 1994
Minutes, June 1995
Addendum to Continuation Request, 1994-1995
Evaluations, 1994 (RESTRICTED)
Evaluations, 1995 (RESTRICTED)
Follow Up Correspondence, 1995 (RESTRICTED)
Follow Up Workshop 1, October 1994
Follow Up Workshop 2, November 1994
Follow Up Workshop 3, December 1994
Handouts, 1994
Handouts, 1995
Notebook, 1994
Notebook, 1995
Notebook Annotated, 1994
Observers, 1994 - 1995
Press Releases and Clippings, 1993- 1995
Schedules, 1993-1995
Week I Correspondence, Handouts and Notes, 1994 (RESTRICTED)
Week II Correspondence, Handouts and Notes, 1994 (RESTRICTED)
Week II Handouts, 1995
Yonkers Joint Treatment Plan, n.d