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As the sustainability manager in the Campus Sustainability Office, Meredith Rutherford works with groups to optimize sustainability in campus operation and collaborates with campus partners to further develop the living laboratory initiative. Through her Engaged Faculty Fellowship, Rutherford is creating a structured guideline to support faculty seeking to integrate an experiential learning or Living Lab component to their course work. 

Building on her experience with experiential learning, Rutherford notes that there are often pieces of the planning and implementation process that are overlooked as well as appropriate planning for project continuity. She is engaging with other Engaged Faculty Fellows, as well as other faculty actively integrating Living Lab or experiential learning into their curriculum, to understand their successes and challenges. Building upon this knowledge, she will create an architecture to provide a repeatable guideline for course preparation, implementation and outcomes continuity or archival. The tool will then be tested among faculty and fellows who are interested in building Living Lab or experiential learning components into their course work.