Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	65.39
Liaison	Patrice Langevin
Submission Date	March 3, 2023

STARS v2.2

Pitzer College
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.54 / 3.00	Angelica Gonzalez Apple Assistant Director Robert Redford Conservancy

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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:

390

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:

2.56

1st program

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):

Department Based Training

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):

The Assistant Director of Sustainability meets with each sub department leader, as well as student leaders of the facilities department to assist with best practices, project planning and training of sustainable concepts that are missing and can be integrated into our facilities. The departments are as follows but not limited to.
Construction
Maintenance
Operations
Grounds
Custodial and building maintenance
He trains these individuals to go out and train the people under them in different aspects of sustainability as they pertain to each department. The assistant director is qualified through many layers of experience and education holding a MBA, Electrical Contractors license, California LIghting controls professional certificate, and numerous other certificates ranging from HVAC to grounds and water conservation. Again these individuals take that knowledge and train their employees on the aforementioned topics

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):

The Assistant Director meets with each department on current practices and provides educational resources on how we can improve our practices, including an advisory role on current grants or funding that may incentive sustainable change over. real examples are using green cleaning solutions in our facilities, upgrading our current controllers to controllers with leak detection and remote access capabilities, upgrading our mechanical systems, more drought tolerant landscape and the conversion of non functional turf to a more drought tolerant landscape.

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):

2,000

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :

https://www.pitzer.edu/sustainability/

If reporting employees served by additional peer-to-peer programs, provide:

2nd Program

Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):

Pitzer Committee of Sustainability

A brief description of the employee educators program (2nd program):

The Work with all Pitzer constituencies to reduce resource
consumption:
25% reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by 2016
Carbon neutrality by 2050
Develop holistic plan for campus sustainability Contribute to discussions and decisions about activities
and policies (including space development) with
substantial sustainability impacts
Oversee and evaluate programs and policies that foster
sustainability (including new-student orientation)

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (2nd program):

The Committee of Sustainability brings students, faculty and staff together to make these changes on campus.

Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (2nd program):

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (2nd program):

1,110

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (2nd program):

https://www.pitzer.edu/sustainability/wp-content/uploads/sites/66/2015/03/Committe-on-Sustainability-Charter.pdf

If reporting employees served by more than two programs, provide:

Additional Programs

A brief description of all other employee peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:

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Number of trained employee educators (all other programs):

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Number of weeks, on average, the employee educators programs are active annually (all other programs):

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Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (all other programs):

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Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all other programs):

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Part 2. Educator hours per employee served by a peer-to-peer program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):

3,110

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:

7.97

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:

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