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Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Aug. 1, 2011
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Carnegie Mellon University
PAE-21: Sustainability in Continuing Education

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete Reporter Millicent Lynch
Sr. Administrative Coordinator
University Libraries System
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Does the institution offer continuing education courses that are focused on or related to sustainability?:
Yes

Number of sustainability continuing education courses offered :
10

Total number of continuing education courses offered:
306

Does the institution have a sustainability-related certificate program through its continuing education or extension department?:
No

A brief description of the certificate program:

The OSHER Lifelong Learning Institute at Carnegie Mellon is a non-credit program supported and chartered by Carnegie Mellon University in 1992. The Institute promotes a gathering of people eager to extend education in their senior years by attending classes at the University. Any adult in the Pittsburgh area is able to join the Institute, and there are no age restrictions.


Year the certificate program was created:
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The website URL where information about sustainability in continuing education courses is available :
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The number of courses provided below may vary from year to year.

Winter/Spring 2011
1) Biodiversity: the New Landscape Aesthetic?
2) Intentional Communities

Summer 2011
1) Technology for Smart Living
2) Global Crisis Issues
3) Tours of the Gates Building (3 tours)

Fall 2011
1)Intentional Communities
2)Slow Food
3)Architectural Design, Technology and Everything Else
4)Energy Environment: By-product Waste and Public Policy
5)Fukushima, Chernobyl, TMI and Radiation


The number of courses provided below may vary from year to year.

Winter/Spring 2011
1) Biodiversity: the New Landscape Aesthetic?
2) Intentional Communities

Summer 2011
1) Technology for Smart Living
2) Global Crisis Issues
3) Tours of the Gates Building (3 tours)

Fall 2011
1)Intentional Communities
2)Slow Food
3)Architectural Design, Technology and Everything Else
4)Energy Environment: By-product Waste and Public Policy
5)Fukushima, Chernobyl, TMI and Radiation

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