Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.91
Liaison Natalie Hayes
Submission Date July 9, 2014
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Bentley University
EN-8: Staff Professional Development

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Natalie Hayes
Associate Director of Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution make available training and/or other professional development opportunities in sustainability to all staff at least once per year?:
Yes

A brief description of the sustainability trainings and professional development opportunities available to staff :

As part of the Student Eco Rep's Green Department Certification Program, the Office of Sustainability offers "Lunch & Learn" training to discuss areas of sustainability improvement as well as reinforce topics such as recycling practices, paperless operations, and energy efficiency.

Staff members are also an integral part of our Faculty and Staff Eco-Rep Program. The Faculty and Staff Eco Rep program, created in June 2010. This program aims to engage faculty and staff in sustainability initiatives and to help train faculty and staff to communicate sustainable behaviors to their departments. Faculty and staff Eco-Reps meet together as a group with the Manager of Sustainability once or twice per month during the academic year and once a month over the summer.


The percentage of staff that participated in training and/or other professional development opportunities in sustainability during the previous year:
20

The website URL where information about staff training opportunities in sustainability is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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