Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.06
Liaison Kristina Hope
Submission Date Dec. 18, 2020

STARS v2.2

Knox College
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 6.08 / 14.00 Deborah Steinberg
Director of Campus Sustainability Initiatives
Office of Sustainability
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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 480 0
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 14 0
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 19 0

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
6.88

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
20

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
10

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
50

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?:
One

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
The Sustainability Office was provided a list of courses taught during the 18-19 academic year. Sustainability staff reviewed the course description for each course, and from that description determined if sustainability issues were covered.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each offering or section of a course was counted as an individual course

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
Individual courses as well as sections of the same course were tallied for each term. The number of offerings each term were added together for a total for the entire academic year.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings 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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