Climate Across the Curriculum

CSU's climate training program for educators across all disciplines

"There is No Planet B" is a performance created by Dance Faculty Member Grace Gallagher, who participated in the Climate Across the Curriculum program in 2024. It has since become a fully produced, public performance, supported by The Sharon Prize Colorado. Click the image to view the original Fall 2024 performance.
"There is No Planet B" is a performance created by Dance Faculty Member Grace Gallagher, who participated in the Climate Across the Curriculum program in 2024. It has since become a fully produced, public performance, supported by The Sharon Prize Colorado. Click the image to view the original Fall 2024 performance.

Climate Across the Curriculum (CATC) is a training program that helps educators bring climate change into any classroom, regardless of discipline. 


Whether you teach math, literature, or the arts, CATC equips instructors with tools, strategies, and content to integrate climate science and dialogue into existing coursework and disciplinary expertise.
In our first year, we trained 38 instructors, updated 37 university courses, and reached approximately 3,600 students.
We have expanded our training offerings beyond Colorado State University. In 2025, we partnered with Denver Public Schools and connected with representatives from other higher education institutions for our Train the Trainer program, which aims to replicate this program within other schools across the country.

Climate Across the Curriculum aims to:

– Introduce faculty, and therefore, students, to climate change content, engaging with their discipline of choice​

– Upgrade existing classes and enhance course eligibility for interdisciplinary climate change credentials​

– Build a network of educators exploring how their discipline can more directly connect with climate change

Climate Across the Curriculum Training from 2025. Group of educators around a table discussing workshop program.

Impacts from our first full academic year

Climate Across the Curriculum Impact Flyer noting key stats from the first full year of integrating climate content into courses.
The training equipped faculty to incorporate climate content through diverse methods, such as climate video game analysis in Ethnic Studies and carbon footprint estimation in Chemistry labs.

Click here to view and download the flyer above.

"Imagining 2070... Now Visualizing" classroom image of students.

We’ve released our Compendium of Examples from the 2024/2025 cohort, available here. This collection showcases post-CATC examples of how climate change is integrated into university courses across various disciplines. It offers inspiration for instructors wanting to include climate topics, organized by subject, course level, and strategy, with clickable page numbers for easy navigation.


We’ve expanded in 2025!​

2024 – onward: Training CSU faculty members and instructors across multiple colleges and departments (2024 CSU agenda)​

2025: High school and middle school educators from public school districts, specifically Denver Public Schools Sustainability Team (2025 DPS agenda)​

2025: Staff from external higher education who are positioned and see an opportunity in advancing a similar training within their own institutions (2025 CSU and Train the Trainer agenda)

Interested in partnering with us or supporting us?

Give financial support or reach out to [email protected]

Denver, Colorado skyline and with front range in the background.