Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 67.87
Liaison Nurit Katz
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

University of California, Los Angeles
EN-9: Staff Professional Development and Training

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.25 / 2.00 Nurit Katz
Chief Sustainability Officer
Sustainability
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Does the institution make available professional development and training opportunities in sustainability to all non-academic staff at least once per year?:
Yes

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (the rate of staff participation in sustainability professional development and training)?:
Yes

Estimated percentage of regular, non-academic staff that participates annually in sustainability professional development and training:
1-24%

If sustainability professional development and training opportunities for staff are made available or supported, provide at least one of the following:

A brief description of any internal sustainability professional development and training opportunities that the institution makes available to non-academic staff:
UCLA has a professional development program (PDP) where staff work on projects in teams. There have been multiple teams that have focused on sustainability, one team produced a Staff and Faculty Sustainability Handbook that is now available online as a resource for all UCLA staff. Another team did research on recycling, and another team examined the potential of satellite offices in reducing GHG emissions and saving resources. A current team is evaluating what's required to take the university paperless.

Through Staff Assembly, UCLA offers Learn at Lunch seminars on sustainability topics including recycling and office sustainability; these seminars are open to all staff.

Finally - the sustainability team provides training on sustainability, green events, green office and how to become zero waste to offices, departments and campus organizations. Last year the team averaged 50 trainings, including all custodians and trades, all administrative staff members in Facilities Management, and other academic and administrative groups across the campus.

A brief description of any external professional development and training opportunities in sustainability that are supported by the institution :
UCLA holds a USGBC gold membership through which it has access to benefits and resources made available to all of UCLA's full-time staff, including access to LEED courses and credential maintenance webinars. Consequently, the Office of Sustainability at UCLA has been advertising to all full-time employees that they can complete a free LEED certification and more if they wanted to.

Optional Fields 

Estimated percentage of regular non-academic staff for which sustainability is included in performance reviews:
0

A brief description of how sustainability is included in staff performance reviews :
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Website URL where information about staff professional development and training in sustainability is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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