Babson College
AC-1: Sustainability Course Offerings

Total number of courses: Registrar generated a report of all courses offered during AY 2022-2023, including Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter via in-person, blended, hybrid, and online teaching modes. Sustainability Courses identification procedure: 1.) used course descriptions for all courses to identify the following terms (environment, sustainability, ecology, climate, UN SDG, ESG, justice, inequality). 2.) All course descriptions were reviewed to determine how the key term was used (note: in many course descriptions terms like "business environment" or "central bank policies are sustainable" or "economic climate" were provided, and these courses were excluded from further review as they do not pertain to environmental sustainability). 3.) Courses that made it through these first two filters were evaluated for full versus inclusive based upon course content, student projects and objectives, and the way in which sustainability was integrated into the course (F) or describe as one consideration when considering the entire course topic (I) or considered one topic discussed in a broader course (I).

Two faculty coordinators of the sustainability concentration (Joanna Carey and Jon Dietrick) work with the registrar and the student hub/college marketing website coordinators to add/remove course details to the listing.

The faculty director of integrated sustainability receives a course release/yr and a stipend. SES courses are developed and co-taught by two faculty. The faculty receive a financial incentive for initially developing the course and a second incentive for co-teaching it with a different faculty member than the initial development.

The Faculty Director of Integrated Sustainability manages the socioecological systems (SES) course, which has multiple sections with different teaching partners and course content. The faculty who teach in this program (from the Math, Analytics, Science, and Technology (MAST), History and Society (H&S), Arts and Humanities (A&H), Economics, and Marketing Divisons) meet before and after each semester to share best practices. At the end of each Spring semester, there is a longer workshop to share teaching approaches with a focus on alignment with the broader curriculum. All SES faculty also have access to and contribute to a shared digital drive where common slides, readings, and activities for either a.) key SES concepts or b.) individual SES courses are available to review and use.