Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 53.85
Liaison Stephen Ellis
Submission Date Oct. 7, 2021

STARS v2.2

Boston University
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.35 / 3.00 Lisa Tornatore
Sustainability Director
BU Sustainability
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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:
10,517

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
9,096

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
86.49

1st program 

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
Sustainability Liaisons

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
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 the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
The Sustainability Liaisons Liaisons are comprised of faculty, staff, and graduate students and represent every school and college. They meet regularly with BU Sustainability to improve communication on campus sustainability issues, discuss potential projects within individual schools, and share challenges, solutions, and successes.

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
90

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
35

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
0.10

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
315

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :

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2nd Program

Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
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A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
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Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):
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Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):
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Additional Programs 

A brief description of all other employee peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Number of trained employee educators (all other programs):
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Number of weeks, on average, the employee educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
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Part 2. Educator hours per employee served by a peer-to-peer program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):
315

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.03

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
This represents FY2020 BU Metrics.

Methodology: We took the number of offices and departments on campus and verified at least one liaison per office or 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".

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