Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.26
Liaison Allison Jenks
Submission Date Nov. 30, 2012
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New Mexico State University
PAE-21: Sustainability in Continuing Education

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 7.00 / 7.00 David Boje
Professor and Bill Daniels Ethics Fellow
College of Business
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Does the institution offer continuing education courses that are focused on or related to sustainability?:
Yes

Number of sustainability continuing education courses offered :
3

Total number of continuing education courses offered:
6

Does the institution have a sustainability-related certificate program through its continuing education or extension department?:
Yes

A brief description of the certificate program:

Water & Water Conservation
Water Task Force
Promotes and supports the role of science and technology in addressing critical water issues facing New Mexico through research, education, and Extension outreach.
Rio Grande Basic Initiative
This project focuses on irrigation water use efficiency and water conservation throughout the Rio Grande basin.
Windmill Technology Center
Web site devoted to preserving an Icon of the American Frontier
New Mexico Farm*A*Syst
A voluntary groundwater protection program for New Mexico farms, ranches, and rural homeowners.
Low Water-Use Landscape Plants for the Southwest
Soil, Water, and Agricultural Testing
Environment, Energy & Weather
NEW!! - Renewable Energy
Video series introduces homeowners to systems that use natural light, heat, or wind energy to replace or supplement more traditional energy sources that may one day diminish.
New Mexico Drought Strategies
New Mexico Climate Center


Year the certificate program was created:
2,002

The website URL where information about sustainability in continuing education courses is available :
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

for example of community and undergraduate certificates: "With the purpose of encouraging better government through education, County College began in 2002 as a dream of the late Sam Montoya, the executive director of the New Mexico Association of Counties, who asked NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences’ Cooperative Extension Service to develop an educational program for New Mexico’s county officials and employees." source: http://newscenter.nmsu.edu/7463/
here is an example of graduate program certificate in energy http://ece.nmsu.edu/pdf/power-certificate-Flyer.pdf


for example of community and undergraduate certificates: "With the purpose of encouraging better government through education, County College began in 2002 as a dream of the late Sam Montoya, the executive director of the New Mexico Association of Counties, who asked NMSU’s College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences’ Cooperative Extension Service to develop an educational program for New Mexico’s county officials and employees." source: http://newscenter.nmsu.edu/7463/
here is an example of graduate program certificate in energy http://ece.nmsu.edu/pdf/power-certificate-Flyer.pdf

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