| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 84.74 |
| Liaison | Patrick McKee |
| Submission Date | Dec. 30, 2024 |
University of Connecticut
EN-7: Employee Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.64 / 3.00 |
Patrick
McKee Senior Sustainability Program Manager Office of Sustainability |
Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program
Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
1st program
A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
As of spring 2023, 95 offices have been certified, with a goal of reaching 100 by the academic year's end. The Green Office Certification Program is aimed at reducing the campus environmental footprint, one office at a time. The Office of Sustainability provides technical support to offices on campus by assessing their behavioral sustainability in the office through the use of a survey. Once we receive the results from these surveys, we calculate a raw score that determines how the office ranks competitively amongst other UConn offices. We focus on encouraging behavioral changes that will have a large impact on office water and energy consumption as well as waste reduction. https://sustainability.uconn.edu/green-office-certification-program/
A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
Any office or department, regardless of scope or size, is encouraged to participate in UConn's Green Office Certification program. Participating offices range from individual dining hall offices and academic departments to local museums on campus and RA offices. All UConn employees are therefore targeted and served by this program.
Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :
If reporting employees served by additional peer-to-peer programs, provide:
2nd Program
A brief description of the employee educators program (2nd program):
A cross-university interdisciplinary seminar on how nature, science, and society interact. This seminar was a course titled EEB 5895: Special Topics - Nature, Science, & Society, led by UConn faculty member Dr. Mark Urban with the goal of furthering faculty members understanding the important sustainability topics to further share with their students and colleagues. Weekly meetings were held online on Mondays at 4:30 p.m. throughout the fall 2023 semester topics covered:
September 11- Diesel Vehicles, Social Justice Cost of Extraction Tom Bontly, Peter Millman, Paul Aho
September 18 - Fire in Our Future - Paul Aho, Greg Anderson Covering two books: Fire Weather: A True Story From A Hotter World, Under A Flaming Sky: The Great Hinckley Firestorm of 1894
September 25 - Fact vs Opinion - How do we know? Epistemeology- Tom Bontly
October 2 - Lecture & Panel Discussion with Dr. Jennifer Roberts "We are each other's harvest. We are each other's magnitude and bond: Understanding the Racialization of Nature."
October 9 - Discussion lead by Bethany Davis Noll October 16 - Water supply/availability & pollution - Gene Likens
October 23 - Discussion of Likens' symposium presentations and considerations of UConn Decarbonization report
October 30 - Student-led Climate Action - Dave Wagner, Mark Urban, various student leaders
November 6 - Declining cold temperate forest diversity and structure - losses of Elm, Chestnut, Ash; declining
November 27 - Steve Hamburg, Environmental Defense Fund - first UConn discussion of MethanSat
A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
Faculty members spanning a variety of academic disciplines that relate to sustainability.
Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):
Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):
Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (2nd program):
Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (2nd program):
Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (2nd program):
If reporting employees served by more than two programs, provide:
Additional Programs
Number of trained employee educators (all other programs):
Number of weeks, on average, the employee educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (all other programs):
Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all other programs):
Part 2. Educator hours per employee served by a peer-to-peer program
Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
Optional Fields
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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