Overall Rating Bronze
Overall Score 41.51
Liaison Lori Chance
Submission Date May 16, 2024

STARS v2.2

Messiah University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 6.67 / 14.00 Brandon Hoover
Director of Sustainability
Operations
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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 1,066 389
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 11 0
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 63 0

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
5.09

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
23

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
16

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
69.57

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?:
Three

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :

Faculty serving on the Sustainability Committee combed through the two schools and each department's course listing to determine if the course contained any reference to "environment" "Social" "economics." If it did, the course was flagged and the course description was read through to determine if Sustainability was a learning objective, and further if it was primary or just included.


How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each course was counted as a single course regardless of the number of offerings or sections

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
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Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

cross listed courses were counted as individual courses only 1x (i.e. a SOAN and PSYCH cross listed class is counted as a single class). student teaching is not counted because it is considered a practicum


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