Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 71.89
Liaison Isabel Savransky
Submission Date Nov. 14, 2023

STARS v2.2

Ontario Tech University
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Isabel Savransky
Sustainability & Asset Planner
Office of Campus Infrastructure and Sustainability
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Does the institution have an ongoing program that offers incentives for academic staff in multiple disciplines or departments to develop new sustainability courses and/or incorporate sustainability into existing courses? :
Yes

A brief description of the incentive program(s):
Faculty of Social Science and Humanities offers incentives for faculty; One faculty member was provided a course release to help develop the new Minor In Sustainability Studies (offered starting Sept 2018) and a new sustainability courses were developed (POSC 3303- Policies in Sustainability)

Link to minor: https://calendar.ontariotechu.ca/preview_program.php?catoid=20&poid=3882&returnto=826

A brief description of the incentives that academic staff who participate in the program(s) receive:
Faculty have been granted course release support; if faculty are willing to develop courses relating to sustainability they may be eligible (case-by-case basis).

Website URL where information about the incentives for developing sustainability course content is available:
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