| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 69.84 |
| Liaison | Zachary Czuprynski |
| Submission Date | Jan. 21, 2025 |
Prescott College
AC-1: Sustainability Course Offerings
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
11.24 / 14.00 |
Zachary
Czuprynski Sustainability Coordinator Green Mountain Center for Sustainablity |
1.1 Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings
Number of academic departments with at least one sustainability course offering:
Annotated list or inventory of the institution’s sustainability course offerings by department:
Description of the process used to identify the institution’s sustainability course offerings by department:
Sustainability-focused courses investigate specific ecological and socio-economical challenges as the predominant theme of the course. Courses were marked sustainability-inclusive if they included a unit or module on sustainability, addressed a sustainability challenge, involved one or more sustainability-focused activities, or integrated sustainability challenges, issues, and concepts throughout the course. All course syllabi from the previous two years were reviewed for these criteria by student Seth Gardner ('25). The sustainability coordinator made edits for the final selection.
As a separate method, students can search for "sustainability" in the Prescott College course catalog to view courses with sustainability in the title or course description; however, this list is not fully comprehensive of sustainability-inclusive courses as the list in the online spreadsheet.
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following two figures:
Points earned for indicator AC 1.1:
1.2 Published sustainability course listings
Online location where the institution’s sustainability course listings are maintained:
Publication where the institution’s sustainability course listings are maintained:
Description of the process used to create and maintain the institution’s sustainability course listings:
The Green Mountain Center for Sustainability maintains the course listing, involving student workers, as an ongoing project to add/remove classes from the list. The center works with Academic Operations to gather all course syllabi from the previous two years and classifies each course as per the method stated above. Most classes are taught repeatedly on a yearly or bi-yearly basis, and there is rarely a need to add or remove courses from the list unless a course has not been taught in over three years or if a new course is developed that qualifies as sustainability-focused or inclusive.
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:
1.3 Support for academic staff to integrate sustainability into the curriculum
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the incentives provided for individual academic staff to integrate sustainability into the curriculum:
Funds for travel, room and board, and food were given to two teachers (one undergraduate and one graduate) to attend the 2023 Valley & Ridge Sustainability Across the Curriculum Workshop at Dickinson, an EcoLeage partner with Prescott College. At the workshop, one new sustainability course was developed--an undergraduate Introduction to Ecological Economics course--and a master's program requirement was edited by faculty Laird Christensen.
See one of our participant profiles here.
Does the institution host an ongoing multidisciplinary community of practice, sustainability across the curriculum training program, or equivalent support program for academic staff who are working to integrate sustainability into the curriculum?:
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview the institution’s sustainability-focused community of practice, sustainability across the curriculum training program, or equivalent support program:
The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:
Optional documentation
A course inventory was conducted before each semester began. Some listed courses were dropped due to, for example, low enrollment. Our submission reflects ALL courses originally listed in the course catalog before any final course changes.
Additional documentation for this credit:
The information presented here is self-reported. While AASHE staff review portions of all STARS reports and institutions are welcome to seek additional forms of review, the data in STARS reports are not verified by AASHE. If you believe any of this information is erroneous or inconsistent with credit criteria, please review the process for inquiring about the information reported by an institution or simply email your inquiry to stars@aashe.org.