Faculty development is a powerful lever for advancing the adoption and sustained implementation of green chemistry in undergraduate education.This presentation describes the design, implementation, and emerging outcomes of Green Chemistry Faculty Mentoring Networks (FMNs) developed through a national collaboration between the BioQUEST Curriculum Consortium, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and the ACS Green Chemistry Institute (ACS-GCI). Current FMN cohorts focus on adapting and implementing curricular materials developed through the ACS-GCI module project, drawing on BioQUEST’s decades of experience designing, facilitating, and sustaining Faculty Mentoring Networks that support collaborative curricular innovation and STEM education reform across diverse institutional contexts. Together, this partnership integrates high-quality disciplinary resources with a proven network-based model for faculty learning, implementation support, and community building. This presentation examines key design principles, facilitator development structures, and early evidence of pedagogical and curricular change emerging from ongoing FMN cohorts. Particular attention is given to how structured peer collaboration, sustained facilitation, and networked community support enable scalability and durability beyond individual grant cycles. Faculty Mentoring Networks function not simply as professional development programs but as national infrastructure for translating green chemistry resources into sustained teaching practice, institutional momentum, and scalable STEM education reform. Implications for cross-institutional scaling, facilitator pathways, and the future of green chemistry education within an evolving funding landscape will be discussed.
Sarah Prescott (Tue,) studied this question.