Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 66.09
Liaison Elizabeth Drake
Submission Date March 3, 2023

STARS v2.2

Swarthmore College
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.81 / 3.00 Elizabeth Drake
Director of Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Total number of employees:
1,025

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
211

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
20.59

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

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

The Sustainability Advocates Program offers staff and faculty the opportunity to take a leadership role in the collective effort to create a healthy and sustainable campus community. Advocates are each partnered with a student Green Advisor for the academic year; together they work to implement sustainability projects within the Advocate's department. The Sustainability Advocates Program supports the College's commitment to achieve a range of sustainability targets and to engage and educate all community members about sustainability topics.


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

Sustainability Advocates aims to involve as many departments across campus as possible, including academic departments (Film and Media Studies, Biology, Theater/Music & Dance), Grounds, Off-Campus Study, Purchasing, etc.).


Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
14

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
32

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

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
352

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :
Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
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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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Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all other programs):
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Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):
352

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.34

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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This credit was assembled by representatives from the Office of Sustainability.


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