Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.39
Liaison Dayna Cook
Submission Date Oct. 8, 2012
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Northern Arizona University
PAE-21: Sustainability in Continuing Education

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.00 / 7.00 Bryan McLaren
NAU Sustainability Coordinator
Office of Sustainability
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Does the institution offer continuing education courses that are focused on or related to sustainability?:
No

Number of sustainability continuing education courses offered :
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Total number of continuing education courses offered:
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Does the institution have a sustainability-related certificate program through its continuing education or extension department?:
Yes

A brief description of the certificate program:

Northern Arizona University's Master of Arts in Sustainable Communities Program presents the

2011 Summer Institute for Sustainable Communities
Join us in beautiful Flagstaff, AZ for sustainability workshops themed on democracy, civic engagement and community building!

The SUS Summer Institute for Sustainable Communities offers graduate students and the greater Flagstaff community the opportunity to learn some hands-on skills.

The SUS Summer Institure offers a variety of workshops and certificate courses each year including but not limited to a permaculture certification course (2010) and a master bee-keeper course (2011).

Seperate from the SUS Summer Institute program, NAU offers a CM 499 LEED Design course than can be taken to work towards the LEED GA certification. This past spring 16 students and community members attended the course, took the LEED GA exam, and passed to become accredited LEED GA's.


Year the certificate program was created:
2,003

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