Principal Investigator
Prof. John Fernandez and Dr. Chris Rabe, Environmental Solutions Initiative
Fund:
Alumni Class Funds
Funding Period:
AY2025
Department/Lab/Center:
Environmental Solutions Initiative (ESI)
Based on the Imperative of Justice in Fast Forward, MIT’s Climate Action Plan for the Decade, The Climate Justice Instructional Toolkit (CJIT) was launched in the fall of 2023 in order to provide supportive tools to enhance professor and instructor teaching content and approaches across Departments, Labs and Centers (DLCs). Version 2.0 of the Toolkit will focus on creating additional disciplinary specific modules in the areas of computing, technology, and engineering to better connect MIT’s most popular courses with critical climate justice issues facing the world’s most vulnerable groups. As the climate crisis intensifies and exacerbates local and global inequities, it is critical to provide more opportunities for MIT undergraduates to engage with climate justice content and experiences across new and emerging disciplinary contexts.