Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 68.91
Liaison Susan Powers
Submission Date April 10, 2024

STARS v2.2

Clarkson University
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.82 / 3.00 Susan Powers
Director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment
ISE
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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:
667

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
100

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
14.99

1st program 

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
SDGs and Clarkson

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
Engagement with faculty and staff through workshops and trainings about how the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals relate to their work in campus academics or operations. Representatives from all departments on campus were invited (and most departments participated) in workshops about the SDGs and relating those goals back to their work here at Clarkson. Specific workshops were offered for faculty where they could think about their course offerings and research in the context of the SDGs. These faculty workshops were well attended with dozens of participants. Many one on one discussions were held with faculty using a team of volunteers to further spread this message of broad sustainability through our academic programs. Impacts from this effort include that the HR department has agreed to including sustainability in both job descriptions and performance evaluations and they are currently working on these initiatives. The campus administration has also included sustainability as defined by the SDGs into the campus strategic framework as one of only 4 pillars. The successes from these workshops and meetings are highlighted in the weekly newsletter.

The employee educators for this program were faculty and staff from the ISE including Dr. Susan Powers, Director of the Institute for a Sustainable Environment, and Alex French, Assistant Director of Sustainability.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
All campus departments (academic and non-academic departments) were targeted through this initiative.

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
2

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
5

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
4

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
40

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 (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):
40

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.06

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Data from FY22

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