Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 73.38
Liaison Brandon Trelstad
Submission Date Dec. 9, 2022

STARS v2.2

Oregon State University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 11.87 / 14.00 Leticia Cavazos
Sustainability Program Specialist
Sustainability Office
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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 3,419 2,312
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 247 182
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 305 171

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
15.79

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
42

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
35

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
83.33

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 :

We are using information from Fiscal Year 2021.

The process below was utilized to identify and categorize OSU's FY21 course inventory:

Process to select which courses to evaluate:
-Stage 1: Utilize online course catalog to identify all courses available in FY21
-Stage 2: Fully read course description
-Stage 3: Based on course description, determine if courses are sustainability-focused, sustainability-inclusive, or neither, based on STARS guidelines


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:
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