Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 67.63
Liaison Konrad Schlarbaum
Submission Date March 1, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of Colorado Colorado Springs
AC-7: Incentives for Developing Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Niki Juhl
Instructor
Chemistry & Biochemistry
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Does the institution have an ongoing program that offers incentives for academic staff in multiple disciplines or departments to develop new sustainability courses and/or incorporate sustainability into existing courses? :
Yes

A brief description of the incentive program(s):
The Compass Curriculum General Education Sustainability Committee supports the creation of new Sustainability Focused or Sustainability Inclusive courses through an application and training process.

A brief description of the incentives that academic staff who participate in the program(s) receive:
In addition to support and training for academic staff to create sustainability curricula across disciplines, there is optimism for the return of monetary grant awards for academics to assist them, pending funding that was discontinued during COVID-19. Grants tend to follow after the STARS assessment period as we identify areas for improvement and funding becomes available.

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Website URL where information about the incentives for developing sustainability course content is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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