Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	53.97
Liaison	Stephen Ellis
Submission Date	Aug. 2, 2019
Executive Letter	Download

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Boston University
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.65 / 3.00	Lisa Tornatore Sustainability Director BU Sustainability

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Total number of employees (staff + faculty, headcount):

10,182

Number of employees served (i.e. directly targeted) by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program (avoid double-counting):

8,990

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer educator program:

88.29

1st Program

Name of the employee educators program:

Sustainability Liaisons

Number of employees served (i.e. directly targeted) by the program (headcount):

8,990

A brief description of the program, including examples of peer-to-peer outreach activities:

The Sustainability Liaisons program was created to promote campus sustainability through peer-to-peer awareness within each of the schools and colleges on both the Charles River Campus and the Boston University Medical Campus.

A brief description of how the employee educators are selected:

Faculty and staff either volunteer or are appointed by their dean/director to become Sustainability Liaisons.

A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive to prepare them to conduct peer outreach:

Sustainability Liaisons meet quarterly with sustainability@BU to improve communication on campus sustainability issues, discuss potential projects within individual schools, and share challenges, solutions, and successes. All volunteers are provided with information and materials to promote sustainable initiatives among their faculty, staff or students.

A brief description of the financial and/or administrative support the institution provides to the program (e.g. annual budget and/or paid faculty/staff coordination):

The Assistant Director for Sustainability serves as a leader for the Sustainability Liaisons Program. There is no financial support provided by the institution.

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2nd Program

Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):

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Number of employees served (i.e. directly targeted) by the program (headcount) (2nd program):

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A brief description of the program, including examples of peer-to-peer outreach activities (2nd program):

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A brief description of how the employee educators are selected (2nd program):

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A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive to prepare them to conduct peer outreach (2nd program):

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A brief description of the financial and/or administrative support the institution provides to the program (e.g. annual budget and/or paid faculty/staff coordination) (2nd program):

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Additional Programs

A brief description of all other employee peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs, including the number of employees served and how employee educators are selected, trained, and supported by the institution:

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Optional Fields

Total number of hours employee educators are engaged in peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education activities annually:

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The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

http://www.bu.edu/sustainability/what-you-can-do/green-teams/be-a-sustianability-liaison/

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Methodology: We took the number of offices and departments on campus and verified if there was at least one liaison per offices and department. Knowing that each office and department holds a percent of the total staff and faculty; we then added the percent of staff and faculty to get the represented percent of "number of employees served".