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The SPIKE Center for Sustainability Education Faculty Fellows Focus on Information Integrity

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After a successful launch in Spring 2026, the SPIKE Center for Sustainability Education Faculty Fellows program welcomes 15 faculty members to form a new cohort this academic year.

The SPIKE Faculty Fellows continue to build a cross-campus network of faculty committed to integrating sustainability into our educational mission, while providing critical faculty perspective to broader university initiatives connected to sustainability education focused on our past, present, and future. (Note, this is not curriculum work, which is advanced through a separate yet coordinated SPIKE Curriculum Ambassadors program.)

These faculty members have been selected from a competitive pool as SPIKE Faculty Fellows for this 2026-2027 academic year, galvanizing a conversation and network to address transformational learning on information integrity. This theme includes research on climate change and environmental relations that intersect with building societal trust, fostering healthy public spheres of engagement, mis-/disinformation campaigns, pedagogical challenges created by “artificial intelligence,” and transparency of data.

"In these dynamic times, we are centering and upholding information integrity as a cornerstone of sustainability education. The work of these expert SPIKE Faculty Fellows will bolster CU ǸԹ’s commitments to function as a leading hub for sustainability and to serve the students attending CU ǸԹ”, says SPIKE Center Faculty Executive Director Max Boykoff.

Once again, the fellows will collectively prepare and deliver an annual Sustainability Across the Curriculum training for CU ǸԹ faculty, including a digital toolbox with local, state, and global resources for sustainability pedagogy. This year, we also aim to co-create and publish a coauthored project related to information integrity and sustainability education.

AY26-27 SPIKE Faculty Fellows

The SPIKE Faculty Fellows include leading experts in information, from historical and natural archives to contemporary digital data. Pedagogical and research expertise includes a range of epistemologies or ways of knowing how to best to discern sustainable and unsustainable ecological, economic, and equitable relations.

The new cohort of faculty fellows focused on information integrity includes:

  • Thomas Andrews, Director of the Center for American West, Professor, History, Arts & Humanities Division of the College of Arts and Sciences
  • Jed Brown, Associate Professor, Computer Science, College of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Clint Carroll, Director of the Center for Native American and Indigenous Studies, Associate Professor, Ethnic Studies, Division of Social Sciences of the College of Arts and Sciences
  • Jolene Fisher, Associate Professor, Advertising, Public Relations, and Design, College of Communication, Media, Design & Information
  • Joshua Herrington, Business Research & Instruction Librarian, University Libraries
  • José Izaguirre, Associate Professor, Communication, College of Communication, Media, Design & Information
  • Brian C. Keegan, Associate Professor, Information Science, College of Communication, Media, Design & Information
  • Cresten Mansfeldt, Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering, College of Engineering and Applied Science
  • Zannah Mae Matson, Assistant Professor, Environmental Design, College of Communication, Media, Design & Information
  • Rebecca Safran, Distinguished Professor, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Division of Natural Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences
  • Cosetta Seno, Associate Professor, Italian, Division of Arts & Humanities in the College of Arts and Sciences
  • Nancy J. Stevens, Institute Director of the Natural History Museum & Professor, Anthropology, Division of Social Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences
  • Angel Y. Tang, Assistant Professor, Science & Engineering Librarian, University Libraries
  • Meghan Van Portfliet, Assistant Teaching Professor, Leeds School of Business
  • Hong Tien Vu, Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism and Professor, Journalism, College of Communication, Media, Design & Information

Together, these faculty leaders represent a wide range of disciplines, ranks, and perspectives, underscoring the SPIKE Center’s commitment to interdisciplinary collaboration and inclusive approaches to sustainability education at CU ǸԹ.

For more information on various ways faculty may play a role in the SPIKE Center for Sustainability Education from fellows to affiliates, please see: /center/spike/faculty.