Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 53.91
Liaison Tom Hartzell
Submission Date Dec. 21, 2022

STARS v2.2

Calvin University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 9.49 / 14.00 Tom Hartzell
Campus Sustainability Program Coordinator
Ecosystem Preserve
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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 988 60
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 31 2
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 73 4

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
10.50

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
34

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
27

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
79.41

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 course inventory was conducted by obtaining a list from Melisa Hubka from the registrar's office of all unique courses offered during the 2021-2022 school year. Courses were then designated as a "Sustainability Focused" if it had the term "Sustainability" in the course name or were known by the Responsible Party to be about sustainability. Courses were designated as being "Sustainability-Inclusive" if they were identified as such by faculty in those programs or through catalog descriptions. The number of programs with sustainability courses was obtained by counting the unique programs with sustainability courses in the above list.

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:
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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:
Academic course inventory provided by Dr. Becky Haney for FY 18-19. Edited and updated by Eleanor Ludwig for 2021-2022 with data from Melisa Hubka from Registrar's office.

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