Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.74
Liaison Catherine Lockhart
Submission Date Sept. 23, 2019

STARS v2.2

Lawrence University
EN-12: Continuing Education

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 5.00 Kelsey McCormick
Sustainability Coordinator
President's Office
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Total number of continuing education courses offered:
37

Number of continuing education courses that are sustainability course offerings:
4

Percentage of continuing education courses that are sustainability course offerings:
10.81

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its continuing education sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
Institution’s inventory of its continuing education sustainability course offerings and descriptions:

Courses:
Listen to the birds 9/14/19
This course references sustainability and natural ecological systems.

Timefulness: How thinking like a Geologist Can Help Save the World 6/16-21/19
This course references sustainability and the human impact on the environment.

The Geopolitics of Energy: Past, Present and Future 8/25-30/19
This course references the interdependence of ecological and social/economic systems through the lens of time.

Wildflowers, Birds and Mushrooms 9/8-13/2019
This course references sustainability, natural ecological systems and their interdependence


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

Does the institution have at least one sustainability-focused certificate program through its continuing education or extension department?:
No

A brief description of the certificate program(s):
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Website URL where information about the institution’s continuing education courses and programs in sustainability is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

These seminars are offered during the summer and fall at Bjorklunden, Lawrence's 425-acre nature preserve in Door County, WI. Bjorklunden Seminars are open to members of the Boyton Society as well as the general public that have a connection to Lawrence. The purpose of the seminars is to provide an opportunity of an expanded audience for faculty research and to provide those that have a continued desire for learning the opportunity to engage the intellectual discussions that are occurring at Lawrence.


These seminars are offered during the summer and fall at Bjorklunden, Lawrence's 425-acre nature preserve in Door County, WI. Bjorklunden Seminars are open to members of the Boyton Society as well as the general public that have a connection to Lawrence. The purpose of the seminars is to provide an opportunity of an expanded audience for faculty research and to provide those that have a continued desire for learning the opportunity to engage the intellectual discussions that are occurring at Lawrence.

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