Overall Rating	Silver - expired
Overall Score	56.72
Liaison	Christie-Joy Hartman
Submission Date	May 12, 2017
Executive Letter	Download

STARS v2.1

James Madison University
EN-12: Continuing Education

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	0.55 / 5.00	Sarah MacDonald Senior Director Outreach and Engagement

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Part 1

Does the institution offer continuing education courses that address sustainability?:

Yes

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Total number of continuing education courses offered:

110

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Number of continuing education courses offered that address sustainability:

Percentage of continuing education courses that address sustainability:

1.82

Course Inventory

A copy of the list and brief description of the continuing education courses that address sustainability:

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A list and brief description of the continuing education courses that address sustainability:

Continuing Education courses that included sustainability that were offered in FY2015-2016: 1. Bioethics- This course will examine ethical perspectives on problems in contemporary biological and medical research and practice. Topics may include abortion, cloning, access to medical treatment in the United States, advanced medical directives/living wills, Do Not Resuscitate directives, animal research, use of frozen embryos, medical tourism, pre-implantation diagnosis, gene therapy and genetic enhancement, genetically modified organisms (including foods), confidentiality, human research in vulnerable populations, and use of antibiotics. 2. Ten Pioneering Women- We will examine the extraordinary lives of 10 women whose energy and creativity helped to transform human life and thought. Among the individuals are Rachel Carson (environmental science), Mary Leakey (human evolution), Jocelyn Bell Burnell (radio astronomy), and Elizabeth Blackburn (biology of aging). We will highlight the great diversity of scientific styles and talents as well as changes in the accepted scientific process over the past century.

Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:

One

Part 2

Does the institution have at least one sustainability-themed certificate program through its continuing education or extension department?:

A brief description of the certificate program(s), including the year the program was created:

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Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Responsible party for course information: Sarah MacDonald, Senior Director, and Carol Fleming, Interim Assistant Vice Provost, Office of Outreach and Engagement. Information from FY2015-2016. Data entered into the tool by Melissa Altman.