Opening address

9:30*  a.m. - Welcome by Dean Jennifer Drake, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
9:40 a.m. -  Opening address by George Heartwell, the CCESS2020 Honorary Chair

*Eastern Time, passcode CCESS2020

The OPEDUCA Approach to Climate Change Education and Education for Sustainable Development 

10:00 - 10:30 a.m. - Jos Eussen, University of Maastricht, the Netherlands

10:30 - 10:45 a.m. - Q&A with Dr. Eussen

10:45 - 11:00  a.m. - Break

Trajectories in Climate Change Education

11:00 - 11:45 a.m. - Panel discussion with Jos Eussen, OPEDUCA and Maastricht University (the Netherlands), Denise Keele, Western Michigan University (USA), Charlotte da Cunha, University of Versailles in St. Quentin-en-Yvelines (France), and Jessica Thompson, Northern Michigan University (USA), moderated by Elena Lioubimtseva, GVSU.

Lunch break

11:45 - 1:00 a.m. - Lunch break on your own

Liberal Education and Climate Change: A Call to Action

1:00 - 1:30 p.m. -  Shaily Menon, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Saint Joseph's University

1:30 - 1:45 p.m. - Q&A with Dean Menon

1:45 - 2 p.m. - Break

Climate Change Education and Climate Action

2:00 - 2:45 p.m. - Panel discussion with Deirdre Courtney (WMU and Schools for Climate Action), Janet Vail (GVSU), Denise Keele (WMU and Kalamazoo Climate Coalition), Marty Buehler (Hastings High School), and Jessica Thompson (NMU and Northern Climate Adaptation Network), moderated by Erik Nordman, GVSU .

Climate Change and Water-Energy-Food Nexus

3:30 - 4:00 p.m. - Jiaguo Qi, Director of the Center for Global Change and Earth Observations, Michigan State University

4:00 - 4:15 p.m. - Q&A with Professor Qi

Concluding Remarks

4:15 - 4:30 p.m. - Where are we going from here?  Concluding remarks by George Heartwell