Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.59
Liaison Chris Bond
Submission Date Oct. 30, 2014
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

Unity Environmental University
EN-6: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.33 / 3.00 Steve Kahl
Director of Sustainability
Sustainability
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Does the institution administer or oversee an ongoing faculty/staff peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program that meets the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

Total number of employees:
144

Name of the employee educators program (1st program) :
HR sustainabiilty orientation

Number of employees served by the program (1st program):
20

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

HR staff and the Sustainability Office collaborate each semester to offer sustainability orientation for new staff, faculty, and adjuncts.


A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive (1st program):

HR staff are well versed in the sustainabiliy mission of the campus and conduct a substantial one on one sustainability orientation for each new hire. At the group orientation, the sustainability office provides materials and may conduct a session. The HR 1 on 1 orientation for each new hire does into the sustainability mission of the college in great detail.

+ Date Revised: Dec. 18, 2014

A brief description of the staff and/or other financial support the institution provides to the program (1st program):

HR and Sustainability Office staff


The website URL where information about the program is available (1st program):
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Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
Sustainabilty Office email informational blasts
+ Date Revised: Dec. 18, 2014

Number of employees served by the program (2nd program):
44

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

All employees receive email blasts distributed through either our office or HR about sustainability issues in their own lives. We believe that staff who are more sustainable at home will be more sustainable at work. Recent topics have included maintaining tire air pressure, hot water heating options for home, air source heat pumps de-mystified.

+ Date Revised: Dec. 18, 2014

A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive (2nd program):

The employee educators are staff (or sometimes students) in the Sustainabilty Office.

+ Date Revised: Dec. 18, 2014

A brief description of the financial or other support the institution provides to the program (2nd program):

The Sustainability office has two staff members who jointly lead this initiative


The website URL where information about the program is available (2nd program):
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Name(s) of the employee educator program(s) (all other programs):
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Number of employees served by all other programs:
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A brief description of how the employee educators are selected (all other programs):
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A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive (all other programs):
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A brief description of the staff and/or other financial support the institution provides to the program(s) (all other programs):
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The website URL where information about the program(s) is available (all other programs):
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