Overall Rating	Silver
Overall Score	56.22
Liaison	Olivia Wiebe
Submission Date	Jan. 28, 2022

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University of Idaho
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	7.08 / 14.00	Sara Mahuron Associate Director of Accreditation and Assessment Vice Provost for Academic Initiatives

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Part 1. Sustainability course offerings

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	1,913	1,036
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered	81	45
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered	94	56

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:

9.36

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:

Documentation

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

AC 1 Class List Excel document_2.xlsx

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

Two

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :

All active courses in the University of Idaho course catalog were categorized by subject in an Excel document. They were then separated into undergraduate or graduate level courses. The course descriptions were then critically examined for their potential relation to sustainability, and categorized as a “sustainability course”, “sustainability related”, or “neither.” The definition of "sustainability course" used for reference was: “courses in which the primary and explicit focus is on sustainability” while a sustainability related course was distinguished as “a course that is primarily focused on a topic other than sustainability, but incorporates sustainability within.” Once all of the courses were categorized, they were cross checked with the course catalog for the 2015-2016 and 2016-2017 academic years to identify which courses were offered by the university during this 2-year period. Upon completion of this analysis, the courses were classified by department and counted. The attached inventory contains only those courses that were identified as sustainability courses or sustainability related, complete with their course descriptions, department, undergraduate or graduate determination, and which semester(s) they were offered.

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

Each course was counted as a single course regardless of the number of offerings or sections

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:

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Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:

http://www.webpages.uidaho.edu/catalog/2015/courses.htm

Additional documentation to support the submission:

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

There has not been a more recent catalogue of courses since the last submission in 2019, however the Presidential Working Group for Sustainability hopes to complete an updated, more comprehensive catalogue in Spring 2022.

Research completed by Maraya Hanson; former student