Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 51.46
Liaison Laura Bain
Submission Date Jan. 31, 2011
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Furman University
PAE-21: Sustainability in Continuing Education

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 6.60 / 7.00
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Does the institution offer continuing education courses that are focused on or related to sustainability?:
Yes

Number of sustainability continuing education courses offered :
40

Total number of continuing education courses offered:
445

Does the institution have a sustainability-related certificate program through its continuing education or extension department?:
Yes

A brief description of the certificate program:

In Fall 2010, Furman offered for the first time a Post-Graduate Diploma in Corporate Sustainability. This program is targeted to people who are serving as sustainability officers or are being asked to lead sustainability efforts for their organization. The program was highly successful, and the university is planning to continue to offer the program. The key learning and application outcomes are as follows:
-Review of key drivers in existence and on the horizon that may influence your business
-Defining and applying corporate sustainability to the business, including:
• assessing and defining sustainable business practices as they pertain to your business and industry
• determining which sustainable business practices make the most sense in terms of realizing an effective return on investment
• ascertaining which tools are most appropriate to understand and utilize
• ensuring that sustainability becomes a strategic business practice
• developing an individual “capstone” organizational project which will be submitted to the program facilitation team for evaluation and critique


Year the certificate program was created:
2,010

The website URL where information about sustainability in continuing education courses is available :
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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