Overall Rating	Gold - expired
Overall Score	68.22
Liaison	Mary Ellen Mallia
Submission Date	Dec. 21, 2018
Executive Letter	Download

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University at Albany
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	9.46 / 14.00	Mary Ellen Mallia Director of Environmental Sustainability Finance and Business

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Part 1

Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses offered by the institution that are sustainability course offerings:

	Undergraduate	Graduate
Total number of courses offered by the institution	1,911	2,151
Number of sustainability courses offered	47	30
Number of courses offered that include sustainability	192	147

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

10.24

Part 2

Total number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer courses (at any level):

None

Number of academic departments (or the equivalent) that offer at least one sustainability course and/or course that includes sustainability (at any level):

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

80.43

Course Inventory

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:

Undergraduate Courses.xlsx

Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:

One

A brief description of the methodology used to determine the total number of courses offered and to identify sustainability course offerings, including the definitions used and the process for reviewing and/or validating the course inventory :

The database was developed by taking an inventory from the undergraduate and graduate bulletins. Each course 's description was aligned with the appropriate UN Sustainable Development Goal(s) as determined by the reviewer. Then, courses such as seminars, internships, independent studies were eliminated from the database as the exact content of those courses could not be determined. The renaming courses were judged to a to whether they contain sustainability content or a course focused on sustainability based on the type of SDG's the course covered. The SDG's were determined to have social (#1,2,3,4,5, 16 and 17), economic (#8,9,10,11,12) and environmental (#6,7,13,14,15) properties. We defined a sustainability focused course as a course that incorporates all three aspects of sustainability: social, economic and environmental. We defined a course that contains sustainability as one that incorporates two of the three aspects of sustainability.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:

Each offering or section of a course was counted as an individual course

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted (if different from the options outlined above):

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Are the following course types included in the inventory? :

	Yes (included) or No (not included)
Internships	No
Practicums	No
Independent study	No
Special topics	No
Thesis / dissertation	No
Clinical	No
Physical education	No
Performance arts	Yes

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:

http://www.albany.edu/gogreen/7.courses.shtml

Additional documentation to support the submission:

Graduate Courses.xlsx

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The count of courses in the inventory marks a reflection of the learning outcomes that align with the UN SDGs, as opposed to a mark of every course at the undergraduate and graduate level. This is to clarify the discrepancy within the initial submission. Summary is available at: https://livealbany-my.sharepoint.com/:x:/r/personal/mmallia_albany_edu/_layouts/15/Doc.aspx?sourcedoc=%7B8c0c37de-76e9-487f-bcfd-353a0624a691%7D&action=default&uid=%7B8C0C37DE-76E9-487F-BCFD-353A0624A691%7D&ListItemId=396&ListId=%7B66771716-FB94-4A66-A7A7-DF3410911113%7D&odsp=1&env=prod