Overall Rating	Silver
Overall Score	53.99
Liaison	Amy Parrish
Submission Date	Feb. 19, 2025

STARS v3.0

Boise State University
AC-3: Graduate Programs

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	7.05 / 8.00

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3.1 Graduate programs with sustainability-focused learning requirements

Does the institution offer at least one sustainability-focused degree or major for graduate students?:

Yes

List and description of the institution’s sustainability-focused degrees and majors for graduate students:

Master of Environmental Management

This interdisciplinary program prepares versatile, creative managers in the best practices and strategies of effective problem solving in a wide range of environmental career areas. The focus is on interdisciplinary training for the governance side of environmental issues and it prepares students to serve government, industry, education, and nonprofit agencies.

The Master of Environmental Management (MEM) has three tracks: Human Dimensions of Environmental Management, Biophysical Dimensions of Environmental Management, and Research Track. These three tracks draw upon existing strengths across disciplinary areas and allow students to specialize in management issues particular to the human or biophysical domains. All MEM students will take a set of core courses common to all tracks and then students to select from an array of existing courses to specialize in one of the three tracks including a thesis option for Research Track students.

Environmental challenges—including more intense wildfires, water scarcity, farmland conversion, and declining wildlife and fish populations—adversely affect communities in Idaho and beyond. Preparing innovative and capable problem-solvers in Idaho who understand the complexities and intricacies of environmental challenges across the state and region will greatly benefit our economic and environmental future. MEM graduates will have the tools and skills to address social-ecological challenges in all their complexity, including understanding the roots of these challenges and innovative pathways for addressing them. The program will additionally expose students to national and global environmental challenges with an emphasis on how regional environmental change is both distinct and reflective of broader trends. This provides students with a larger ‘tool box’ for understanding the underlying causes of environmental challenges and best practices in addressing or mitigating them.

https://www.boisestate.edu/graduatecatalog/#/content/6451433a5435e5001c19d0f0

Does the institution offer at least one sustainability-focused certificate, concentration, or minor for graduate students?:

Yes

List and description of the institution’s sustainability-focused certificates, concentrations, and minors for graduate students:

Graduate Certificate in Environmental Governance

The Boise State University Graduate Certificate in Environmental Governance assists working professionals and students with additional training and coursework to further develop their expertise and skills within the context of the unique challenges that emerge for public, private, and non-profit sectors in governing the environment.

https://www.boisestate.edu/graduatecatalog/#/programs/SyGaz1qWA8?bc=true&bcCurrent=Graduate%20Certificate%20in%20Environmental%20Governance&bcGroup=Public%20Policy%20and%20Administration&bcItemType=programs

Does the institution offer at least one graduate qualification focused on a subject other than sustainability that has a sustainability-focused learning requirement?:

Yes

List and description of the institution’s graduate qualifications focused on subjects other than sustainability that have sustainability-focused learning requirements:

Master of Science in Civil Engineering

Identify and use advanced mathematical, computational, design, and/or experimental skills to solve complex civil engineering problems
Demonstrate advanced technical knowledge in chosen focus area

*Focus Areas: Environmental Engineering, Geotechnical/Geoenvironmental Engineering, Sustainable Infrastructure Materials, Transportation Geotechnics, Transportation Systems, or Water Resource Engineering. All courses to be selected with student input and approved by the advisor or supervisory committee.

This Sustainable Infrastructure Materials subdiscipline seeks to provide a platform for future sustainable engineering of civil infrastructure systems, linking the material microstructural tailoring to the full-scale field performance of civil infrastructure. This program covers the development, application, characterization, recycling, remediation, disposal, modeling, and monitoring of engineering materials as part of infrastructure design, development, and management. It will emphasize fundamental understanding of materials and property relationships, knowledge-guided microstructural development and its impact on long-term performance, durability, and sustainability of civil engineering materials, as well as rehabilitation, assessment, and repair of infrastructure. Major research areas include: Multiphysics coupled degradation, multiscale control for improved microstructure, predictive modeling and performance-based design, high-performance infrastructure materials, and materials at high-strain rates and extreme events for hazard resilience.

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3.2 Percentage of graduate qualifications awarded that have sustainability-focused learning requirements

Performance year for graduate qualifications:

2022

Total number of graduate qualifications awarded:

1,255

Number of graduate qualifications awarded that are sustainability-focused:

Number of graduate qualifications awarded that are focused on subjects other than sustainability but have sustainability-focused learning requirements:

473

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Total number of graduate qualifications awarded that have sustainability-focused learning requirements:

479

Percentage of graduate qualifications awarded that have sustainability-focused learning requirements:

38.17

Points earned for indicator AC 3.2:

3.05

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