Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.69
Liaison Laurie Husted
Submission Date June 8, 2020

STARS v2.2

Bard College
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.89 / 14.00 Emily McLaughlin
Associate Dean of the College & Assoc. Professor Chemistry
Office of the Dean
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Part 1. Sustainability course offerings

Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses offered by the institution that are sustainability course offerings:
Undergraduate Graduate
Total number of courses offered by the institution 615 95
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 37 27
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 137 4

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
28.87

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
36

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
21

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
58.33

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
The registrar was consulted to gain information on the total number of courses offered by the institution. Courses were assessed by Professors and Bard Es to assess if their courses addressed one or more of the Sustainable Development Goals and SDG Learning Objectives.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each course was counted as a single course regardless of the number of offerings or sections

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
A course that is held twice in an academic year, once in the fall semester and once in the spring semester, is counted as two courses. A course held once in an academic year but has multiple sections is counted only as one course. A course listed as both an undergraduate and a graduate course is counted as two courses.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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