Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 55.41
Liaison Deborah Steinberg
Submission Date Feb. 18, 2013
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STARS v1.2

Carnegie Mellon University
ER-14: Incentives for Developing Sustainability Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 3.00 David Dzombak
Hamerschlag University Professor and Department Head
CEE: Civil & Environmental Engineering

Criteria

Institution has an ongoing program or programs that offer incentives for faculty in multiple disciplines or
departments to develop new sustainability courses and/or incorporate sustainability into existing
courses or departments.  The program aims to increase student learning of sustainability.
 
Incentives may include release time, funding for professional development, and trainings offered by the
institution. 
 
Incentives for expanding sustainability offerings in academic, non‐credit, and/or continuing education
courses count for this credit.  


Applicability

This credit applies to all institutions. 


Scoring

Institutions earn 3 points for meeting the criteria outlined above.   Partial points are not available for
this credit. 


Measurement

Timeframe

Programs or incentives that were offered within the past three years are eligible for this credit.

Sampling and Data Standards

Not applicable

 

 

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