Dickinson College
EN-9: Staff Professional Development and Training

Training sessions are hosted once a year for the entire Dining Services staff, housekeeping staff, admissions staff, academic department coordinators, development staff, diversity team, President's staff forum and all new staff of the college. Training sessions including green cleaning, sustainable food and dining, waste minimization, green devil certification, green office certification and how to connect sustainability to departmental responsibilities and goals.

As part of our path to Carbon Neutrality, the Center for Sustainability Education hosted a college wide tour in 2019-20 to meet with as many offices and departments as possible to encourage their active participation in our Climate Change Needs Behavior Change campaign. We provided tips and tools for more sustainable/lower carbon operations across the college.

In addition, the Center for Sustainability Education (CSE) routinely offers various forms of staff trainings and workshops:
1. CSE annually hosts an open house forum that allows Dickinson employees the opportunity to learn more about the services of both academic and administrative departments by visiting their spaces and programs. This session is open to any staff member at the college.
2. CSE offers Sustain IT Workshops, open to staff, that are content specific action workshops with an educational component.
3. CSE has also partners with Human Resource Services offering wellness programs including lunch-and-learn workshops and biking seminars for staff of the college.

Additionally, the Center for Sustainability Education engages all new employees through the College's new employee orientation program.

In 2019, Dickinson Dining Services offered a professional training to their chefs and staff in support of building a stronger plant-based menu. We hired a demonstration chef from Impossible Foods to come and demonstrate recipes, host a tasting, and work with staff to build excitement around meat alternatives.

The Center for Sustainability Education (CSE) is continuously networking with campus offices and departments to find ways to connect staff to the living laboratory that is Dickinson College. Custom training workshops have been developed and implemented for a wide range of audiences to help incorporate sustainability into all aspects of life and work at Dickinson.