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The Collaborative for Leadership, Education, and Assessment Research (CLEAR) envisions a world where everyone can research and innovate to solve our problems effectively. We utilize a collaborative K-20 multi-stakeholder approach to support effective education and collaborative leadership to increase the participation and engagement of traditionally underrepresented groups. CLEAR works towards collaborative change through a collective impact approach. This work relies on community participation to solicit input from stakeholders to develop a shared agenda, mutually reinforcing actions, shared goals and metrics, as well as leadership and continuous communication.

CLEAR's newest program, STEM for Success, consolidates the collaborative's experience and will bring together stakeholders to coordinate efforts and develop needed resources and activities to promote career readiness through collaborative Technology, Engineering, Applied Arts, Math and Science (TEAMS) best practices in education. STEM for Success will initiate a long-term alliance-building effort to support women in STEM. This new initiative will impact girls from elementary school through college and early career supported by the STEM Education Support Program and the 321STEM kid’s journal. STEM for Success will also take an active role in the NSF INCLUDES Coordination Hub, a national network connecting all NSF INCLUDES programs across the United States. To learn more about STEM for Success, visit STEMforSuccess.org

 

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First-year students, undeclared students, and students who are transitioning into another major at NJIT should contact the Office of Academic Advising (OAA) for advising:

Kupfrian Hall Suite 201
Phone: (973) 596-5598
Email: oaa@njit.edu

Non first-year students and declared CSLA majors should contact their department's designated academic advisors for advising:

Overview

The Minor in Environmental Studies and Sustainability (ESS) provides students with interdisciplinary training to enable engagement with some of the most pressing social, ecological, and technological challenges of the 21st century. The Minor is designed to complement the education that comprises a Major course of study and to enable all academic programs to add an ESS component. Several departments at NJIT deliver courses that contribute to the ESS Minor. The ESS Minor offers students interested in environmental studies and sustainability with a centralized advising destination.

Requirements

The ESS Minor entails successful completion of five approved courses (15 credits) at the 300-level or higher. Students enrolling in the ESS minor are expected to have a GPA of at least 3.0. Course substitutions can be made only with the approval of the Coordinator of the ESS Minor.

Customized course sequences have been developed for students in specific degree programs (see below). Other Majors can formulate a program of study in collaboration with the Coordinator of the ESS Minor.

Students interested in the ESS Minor should contact:

Professor Maurie Cohen
Office: Cullimore 433
Telephone: (973) 596-5281
 

ESS Minor for Students Majoring in Architecture 

  • ARCH 314 (Environmental Control Systems II)
  • STS 363 (Introduction to Sustainability Studies)
  • STS 364 (Sustainability Policy and Practice)
  • Two eligible ARCH electives as designated by the director of the ESS minor.

ESS Minor for Students Majoring in Interior Design

  • ​INT 321 (Methods and Materials)
  • STS 363 (Introduction to Sustainability Studies)
  • STS 364 (Sustainability Policy and Practice)
  • STS 360 (Ethics and Environment)
  • AD 490 (Eco-tectures) or AD 490 (Life Cycle Assessment for Designers)

ESS Minor for Students Majoring in Chemical Engineering (ChE)

  • ChE 312 (Chemical Process Safety)
  • STS 363 (Introduction to Sustainability Studies)

Three courses from list below:

  • STS 364 (Sustainability Policy and Practice)
  • CHEM 360 (Environmental Chemistry I)
  • CHEM 361 (Environmental Chemistry II)
  • CHEM 365 (Environmental Organic Chemistry)
  • EVSC 325 (Energy and Environment)
  • EVSC 335 (Environmental Law)
  • EVSC 375 (Environmental Biology)
  • EVSC 385 (Environmental Microbiology)
  • EVSC 416 (Environmental Toxicology)
  • EVSC 484 (Environmental Analysis)
  • EnE 360 (Water and Waste Water Engineering)
  • EnE 361 (Solid and Hazardous Waste Engineering)

Dr. Kevin Belfield was appointed Dean of the Jordan Hu College of Science and Liberal Arts at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and professor of chemistry and environmental science in November 2014. Belfield received a B.S. in Chemistry from Rochester Institute of Technology in 1982 and, after spending one year at Bristol-Myers Pharmaceutical Co. in Syracuse (1982-83), went on to earn a Ph.D. in Chemistry from Syracuse University in 1988 (under the mentorship of John E. Baldwin). He then worked as a senior chemist at Ciba-Geigy Corp. before performing postdoctoral research at SUNY College of Environmental and Forestry (with Israel Cabasso) and at Harvard University (with William von E. Doering). Subsequently, Belfield was a member of the faculty at the University of Detroit Mercy and Graduate Coordinator. While at the University of Detroit Mercy, Belfield was an AFOSR Summer Faculty Fellow in 1997 and 1998.

Prior to joining NJIT he served as Pegasus Professor and chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Central Florida (1998-2014). In 2010, Belfield was inducted into the National Commission of Cooperative Education (NCCE) Co-op Hall of Fame. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2013), the American Chemical Society (2019), and the Royal Society of Chemistry (2022). Belfield has served as PI or co-PI on over 45 grants from federal, foundation, and corporate agencies. Kevin has over 300 publications, holds over a dozen US patents, and serves on several editorial advisory boards of scientific journals. Belfield is a pioneer in two-photon photochemistry and organic photonic materials. His research interests range from developing contrast agents for early cancer detection and new paradigms for photodynamic cancer therapy, to ultrafast photophysics and 3D high density optical data storage.

For more information, please visit the Belfield Research Group website.

Contact Information

Email: belfield@njit.edu
Phone: (973) 596-3676
Fax: (973) 596-6063
Office: Cullimore Hall, Room 207

Faculty in the Department of Biological Sciences (DBS) lead research programs in ecology, evolution, organismal biology and neuroscience, applying quantitative approaches to discover the structure and organization of the living world from the level of molecules and cells, up to entire ecosystems.

Our Department of Chemistry & Environmental Science (CES) has faculty working at the frontiers in biophotonics, biosensors, nanotechnology, environmental microbiology, atmospheric & climate science, analytical & forensic chemistry, and quantum & computational chemistry.

Research within the Department of Physics has particular strengths in solar & terrestrial physics, imaging & photonics, and materials science & condensed matter physics, with state-of-the-art research facilities both on- and off-campus (most notably the Big Bear Solar Observatory in California).

The Department of Mathematical Sciences (DMS) is a national leader in applied mathematics research. Its faculty conduct research in a broad range of application areas using techniques of scientific computation & numerical analysis, partial differential equations, mathematical modeling, dynamical systems theory, and statistics. DMS faculty collaborate across HCSLA and NJIT with their colleagues from the experimental sciences to solve real-world problems.

Finally, our Federated Department of History and Department of Humanities & Social Sciences host a vibrant community of researchers in areas as diverse as sustainability, psychology, communications, literature & digital poetry, the relationship between humanity and nature, the history of science and medicine, sexuality, and feminism.

HCSLA also houses or has faculty closely involved with, a number of Research Centers and Institutes, whose members conduct focused, collaborative, leading-edge research of national and international repute. More information on these Centers and Institutes can be found by following the tabs to the left.

In recent years, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have identified a number of Grand Challenges for the country, and research priorities of the Endless Frontiers Act have been codified in the United States Innovation and Competition Act for the National Science Foundation (NSF) as ten key technology focus areas. In the same spirit of directing and harnessing the nation’s research talent, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) developed a “Roadmap for Medical Research,” and the United Nations announced Sustainable Development Grand Challenges. Informed by these national and global priorities, HCSLA will direct future research efforts to address pressing issues related to sustainability, the environment, health, and the big data revolution, with a focus on:

  • biotechnology, genomics, and synthetic biology
  • natural or anthropogenic disaster prevention, including space weather sciences
  • materials science and advanced energy, modeling and simulation
  • creating efficient, healthy, secure, resilient communities
  • developing an understanding of and creating new technologies for detecting and treating disease to improve health and the quality of life
  • quantum computing
  • developing the cyberinfrastructure, data science methods, artificial intelligence, machine learning, data storage technologies, and security for the 21st century
  • fostering informed policies, decisions, and actions

Our graduate and undergraduate degree programs prepare students for professional success and readies them for the pursuit of their goals and aspirations. Our students learn how to ask questions about the world, how to collect and analyze data, how to express their ideas with clarity and precision, how to think critically, and work as part of multidisciplinary teams. These skills transcend professional competence and prepare our graduates to lead the way for others into our rapidly developing future.

We also play an important role in the education of all NJIT students through our commitment to General Education Requirements (GER). It is through our GER courses that students develop a contextual understanding of society and human history. Students are given the opportunity to reflect and understand how their actions impact their interests and the interests of others. They learn to investigate the natural world through a mastery of mathematics and scientific principles. We aim to ensure that all NJIT graduates are provided these core academic experiences so that they can be both self-reliant and public-spirited when they enter their chosen professions.

I hope you will use the links provided on our website to explore in more detail the research, scholarship, and artistic endeavors of our faculty and students. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about CSLA and our programs, please contact us at csla@njit.edu.

Sincerely,

Kevin D. Belfield
Dean, Jordan Hu College of Science & Liberal Arts
Distinguished Professor, Department of Chemistry & Environmental Science

James M. Lipuma, PhD
Director of CLEAR
lipuma@njit.edu
(973) 642-4743

James M. Lipuma, PhD is a Senior University Lecturer in the Humanities Department at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). He holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University, an MS in Environmental Policy Studies and a PhD in Environmental Science from NJIT, and a Masters of Education in Curriculum and Teaching focused in Science Education from Teachers College, Columbia University. He conducts extensive research in digital learning, curriculum, and instructional design and is currently piloting online converged course delivery methods.

Bruce Bukiet, PhD
STEM Expert
bukiet@njit.edu
(973) 596-8392

Bruce Bukiet is Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences and Associate Dean of the College of Science and Liberal Arts at the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). His interests have always been involved with applying mathematics, modeling and computation to real world issues. In this regard, he has made mathematical contributions to a number of “B” areas: Baseball, Biology, Bombs and Bugs. In recent years he has been involved in a number of projects working to improve education both at the K-12 level as well as in the university.

 

 

History of the CLAS Network

Since 2006, the New Jersey Institute of Technology’s (NJIT) College of Science and Liberal Arts (CSLA) has promoted and implemented a number of projects designed to leverage the University’s technological and educational expertise for the improvement of K-12 education. Under the vision of Dr. Fadi Deek, now NJIT’s Provost, and the direction of Dean Kevin Belfield of CSLA, Drs. James Lipuma and Bruce Bukiet have worked to improve both in-class and digital learning aspects of primary and secondary education. These efforts are now focused on digital learning and learning object design in several forms.

Dr. Lipuma and Dr. Bukiet recognized the growth of the availability of resources online, while simultaneously experiencing how time consuming it can be to find appropriate learning objects. For example, often one must sift through many videos before finding one appropriate to the situation. From this realization, the Curriculum, Learning and Assessment Studies (CLAS) Network was conceived. The CLAS Project is an integrated framework for K-16 research and professional development. Through an on-line network, conferences, workshops, and a peer-reviewed journal, the project seeks to bring together educators in order to create a community of evidence-based best practices. An essential component of the CLAS Project is the CLAS Network.

 

What is the CLAS Network?

The CLAS Network is a repository for educational resources and materials, thus providing access to these materials to all educational stakeholders including teachers, students, parents, and beyond. Users can either create Learning Objects or a variety of other forms of content, or consume those materials published on the CLAS Network by other users. This contributes to a major goal of the CLAS Network, to become a ‘one-stop shop’ for digital learning resources. The Network also connects educational stakeholders around content and pedagogy with user-defined groups, personal messaging, and the ability to collaborate with other users on topics and issues defined by the users themselves. The mission of the CLAS Network is to address the need for a repository of vetted educational videos and learning objects of various types, which are easily accessible and searchable, so that educators can find what they need quickly and efficiently, while connecting with their peers and colleagues around the world.

 

The CLAS Network is coming soon! When the website launches, the URL will be placed here!

 

Publications about the CLAS Network

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