Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 60.05
Liaison Jessica Thompson
Submission Date Feb. 15, 2023

STARS v2.2

Northern Michigan University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 13.06 / 14.00 Jessica Thompson
Professor/SAC Co-Chair
Business
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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 994 160
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 39 11
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 157 16

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
19.32

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
25

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
20

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
80

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 :

In October 2022, the Sustainability Advisory Council sent a survey out to all NMU faculty members to ask about sustainability-related coursework, research, and outreach. We added these data to our existing Excel spreadsheet from 2016 and 2019. Members of the Sustainability Advisory Council verified that the sustainability courses identified in 2022 had been offered in the year by working with the Registrar's Office and looking at online bulletins of course offerings for the Winter 2022 and Fall 2022 semeaters. Members of the Sustainability Advisory Council also reached out to individual faculty members and department heads who teach courses on the list to get more details about how they incorporate sustainability principles and practices in their courses.


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:

We simply counted each course once, even if there were multiple offerings. The total number of courses offered included any course taught from January through December, 2022.


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:
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