Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 50.13
Liaison Ronnie Dorsnie
Submission Date April 25, 2023

STARS v2.2

John Abbott College
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Roberta Silerova
Program Dean
Dean's Office
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Does the institution have an ongoing program that offers incentives for academic staff in multiple disciplines or departments to develop new sustainability courses and/or incorporate sustainability into existing courses? :
Yes

A brief description of the incentive program(s):
The college has provided the opportunity to attend conferences on sustainability and has paid for release time from teaching for faculty to do research on Sustainability in the Curriculum. There is also release time to coordinate the Environmental Studies Certificate, the Peace & Social Justice Studies Certificate and the Women's and Gender Relations Studies Certificate.

A brief description of the incentives that academic staff who participate in the program(s) receive:
Reimbursement of conference and workshop expenses, and salary paid during release from teaching to coordinate and do research around SDG themes.

Optional Fields 

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