Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 46.23
Liaison Martín Sánchez Gutiérrez
Submission Date June 29, 2024

STARS v3.0

Tecnológico de Monterrey – Campus Chihuahua
AC-1: Sustainability Course Offerings

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 8.24 / 14.00
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1.1 Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings

Total number of academic departments that offer courses that may be taken for credit:
29

Number of academic departments with at least one sustainability course offering:
19

Annotated list or inventory of the institution’s sustainability course offerings by department:
Cursos_Totales_Chihuahua.xlsx

Description of the process used to identify the institution’s sustainability course offerings by department:

The sustainability related courses are available to all students in the university. Some of them are offered as electives. We recognized and measure the current state of sustainability in the institution's curriculum and establish the inclusion strategy. We use a Python code to classify our courses using keywords (Sustainability Keywords). Research on keywords for SDGs 35 - 79 (Total 1017). Selection of 324 most significant sustainability keywords (by SDG) and general.


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Percentage of departments with sustainability course offerings:
65.52

Points earned for indicator AC 1.1:
5.24

1.2 Published sustainability course listings

Does the institution maintain a public multidisciplinary listing of its sustainability course offerings as a resource for current and prospective students?:
No

Online location where the institution’s sustainability course listings are maintained:
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Publication where the institution’s sustainability course listings are maintained:
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Description of the process used to create and maintain the institution’s sustainability course listings:
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Points earned for indicator AC 1.2:
0

1.3 Support for academic staff to integrate sustainability into the curriculum

Does the institution provide incentives for individual academic staff working to integrate sustainability into the curriculum to pursue relevant professional development and/or training?:
Yes

Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the incentives provided for individual academic staff to integrate sustainability into the curriculum:

Strategy for the Integral Inclusion of Climate Change and Sustainable Development in Degree Plans Altough, Not an incentive perse, Ruta Azul is working on a strategy for the short and medium term, divided into two phases, for the integral inclusion of climate change and sustainable development. In phase one, we integrated climate change into 2019 degree plans, while phase two is a strategy for 2026 plans aimed at the holistic integration of ESD from the design stage, as described below:

Phase 1: In conjunction with the National Schools, we began implementing phase 1 to ensure that all undergraduate degree plans have at least one required unit of study that relates the discipline to climate change. By August 2023, all 2019 degree plans will have at least one required undergraduate course related to climate change. Within phase 1, we have also worked on designing and implementing pilot training courses and including climate change and sustainable development in the undergraduate curriculum. In the second year of this phase, the pilot programs have been consolidated to become permanent activities. 

An example is Tec Week with Human Significance: Climate Emergency and Sustainability Culture, designed in 2021 in collaboration with the School of Humanities and Education and the Director of Social Impact. A total of 4,746 students have taken this unit of study and have worked with a Training Partner to propose sustainability projects on their campus.

Phase 2: The strategy consists of including ESD in the new degree plans by updating the curriculum design, ensuring that sustainable development is addressed in systemic, integrated form into design guidelines for courses. Phase 2 includes the integration of sustainability into transversal competencies for 2026 degree plans. The purpose is to develop the knowledge, skills, values, and attitudes necessary for leadership in sustainable development among students in all undergraduate majors

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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?:
Yes

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:
In the Education Area of Tecnológico de Monterrey's 2025 Sustainability and Climate Change Plan, the main goal is to train leaders committed to forging a sustainable future. This Education Area designed the course “Educate to confront climate change”. This resource is part of the Continuing Education Courses in the Disciplines (Cursos de Actualización en las Disciplinas (CADI) in Spanish) which were designed to contribute to the updating knowledge of teachers in different professional specialization areas.
The main objective of the course focused on climate change is to provide the concepts, methodologies, pedagogies, and tools necessary to integrate climate change and sustainable development transversally into teaching practices and training units. The course is offered in February and August since the year 2022 and has impacted 176 teachers from the institution.
 
Update: All activities, resources, training courses, materials included in the continuining education programs in CADi have no cost for all our faculty members. Until this day, these activities and materials were not mandatory for current faculty, however starting the school year 2024-2025, these programs will be mandatory for all new faculty members and current academic staff will have a maximum deadline to start these programs by August 2025.
 
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Points earned for indicator AC 1.3:
3

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Additional documentation for this credit:
Mapeo_de_Sostenibilidad_en_UF_PC_1.xlsx

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