Overall Rating Reporter
Overall Score
Liaison Kathleen Hilimire
Submission Date Feb. 23, 2022

STARS v2.2

Fort Lewis College
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
-- Reporter Kathleen Hilimire
Assistant Professor
Environmental Studies
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Part 1. Sustainability course offerings

Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses offered by the institution that are sustainability course offerings:
Undergraduate Graduate
Total number of courses offered by the institution 449 12
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 35 0
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 39 0

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
16.05

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
29

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
16

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
55.17

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
Three

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
We sent a survey to all faculty asking them to indicate courses taught in the past three years with sustainability themes. We also searched the course catalog for key terms: sustainability, environment, and/or social change. We then reviewed course descriptions for suitability, removing, for example, courses that used the term “environment” in a non-sustainability way (e.g., the business “environment”). Finally, we sent the inventory to chairs for editing. The date range addressed with this inventory was from spring semester 2015 through fall semester 2017.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each course was counted as a single course regardless of the number of offerings or sections

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
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Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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