Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 75.79
Liaison Mary Whitney
Submission Date Sept. 22, 2015
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STARS v2.0

Chatham University
EN-8: Staff Professional Development

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Mary Whitney
University Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution make available training and/or other professional development opportunities in sustainability to all staff at least once per year?:
Yes

A brief description of the sustainability trainings and professional development opportunities available to staff :

At Chatham University, we train our Student Affairs employees in sustainability and green practices, and Chatham Ambassadors from the university admissions offices also receive in-depth training on our sustainability initiatives. We also train our facilities employees on green facilities operations (as part of our membership in AICUP) and have several green cleaning seminars for all housekeeping employees at Chatham University. We conduct a monthly staff Lunch-and-Learn where program directors and other staff attend to learn about Chatham's various sustainability initiatives, including green purchasing, green cleaning, composting, etc.


The percentage of staff that participated in training and/or other professional development opportunities in sustainability during the previous year:
95

The website URL where information about staff training opportunities in sustainability is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Every new hire at Chatham attends a sustainability orientation and training so that they understand our initiatives and our institutional expectations for their participation.


Every new hire at Chatham attends a sustainability orientation and training so that they understand our initiatives and our institutional expectations for their participation.

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