Overall Rating	Reporter
Overall Score
Liaison	Brian Webb
Submission Date	March 5, 2025

STARS v3.0

The College of Wooster
AC-1: Sustainability Course Offerings

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	Reporter	Brian Webb Director of Campus Sustainability President's Office

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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:

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

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

Sustainability_Courses__Research.xlsx

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

We used two key methods:

From our Course Catalog, we identified courses that have sustainability as an element of course goals and cross-compared to this to courses offered in the past three years
We also surveyed faculty to learn whether other courses should be added
We then compared to the two lists and made sure to avoid double counting

The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following two figures:

Percentage of departments with sustainability course offerings:

54.55

Points earned for indicator AC 1.1:

4.36

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?:

Yes

Online location where the institution’s sustainability course listings are maintained:

https://wooster.edu/sustainability/education-research/

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:

This is a new document that has been just recently placed online to help students learn about opportunities to take sustainability related courses. It will be updated annually as new courses are added or old courses are no longer offered.

The Reporting Tool will automatically calculate the following figure:

Points earned for indicator AC 1.2:

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?:

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

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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?:

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:

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Points earned for indicator AC 1.3:

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