| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 77.34 |
| Liaison | Sally DeLeon |
| Submission Date | Feb. 27, 2022 |
University of Maryland, College Park
EN-7: Employee Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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2.56 / 3.00 |
Tanvi
Gadhia Outreach Coordinator Environmental Safety, Sustainability, and Risk |
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Total number of employees:
10,000
Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
7,087
Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
70.87
Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
Green Office Program
A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
The Green Office Program engages staff, faculty and students in a voluntary, self-guided initiative that promotes best environmental practices at the University of Maryland. The program supports and promotes offices that are taking steps toward reducing their environmental footprint. A series of checklists and tools will guide offices through three levels of certification. Each of these three checklists includes at least 20 different ways in which an office can be more sustainable. Examples of these items range from simpler tasks such as recycling toner/ink cartridges and unplugging vampire power to more difficult items such as hosting zero-waste office events and incorporating sustainability into PRDs. Each checklist must be 75% complete in order to be considered certified at that level. It is up to the Green Office representatives in each participating office to go through the checklists, ensure the staff are changing their behaviors and completing the actions, and report back to us when they have completed a new level of certification.
A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
Green Office Representatives work with their colleagues in their office to engage, inform and motivate them to collaboratively implement their Green Office checklist of actions. Green Office Representatives are required to attend a 1 hour training and receive monthly newsletters with tips and reminders around rotating themes. They also receive checklists of sustainability actions alongside instructions, templates and tips for each action, and can earn Green Office Certification at the Bronze, Silver, Gold or Platinum levels.
Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
140
Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
48
Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
1
Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
6,720
Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :
Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
Sustainability Teaching Fellows
A brief description of the employee educators program (2nd program):
The Sustainability Teaching Fellows are faculty from across the campus who are working on integrating sustainability into their courses. Through discussion, collaborative activities, and ongoing networking, participating faculty members educate one another (as peers) about the interdisciplinary nature of sustainability by sharing information about how each of their individual disciplines is connected to broad sustainability concepts.
A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
Teaching Fellows engage with other Teaching Fellows participants, members of their academic departments, and other faculty and staff as they integrate sustainability into their course curriculum. Faculty involved with the Teaching Fellows program act as ambassadors, helping to connect students, staff, and faculty with Office of Sustainability programming. Over the ten year history of the program, more than 200 faculty have participated with around 129 still active in the UMD teaching community. While the Office of Sustainability has not hosted a Teaching Fellows workshop since 2018, the Office hosted a few workshops for Fellows in 2019 before the university's transition to remote learning and working for the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The Fellows are frequently engaged via email and social media with sustainability-related opportunities to share with their peers.
Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):
129
Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):
24
Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (2nd program):
0.50
Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (2nd program):
1,548
Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (2nd program):
A brief description of all other employee peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Number of trained employee educators (all other programs):
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Number of weeks, on average, the employee educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
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Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (all other programs):
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Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all other programs):
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Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):
8,268
Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.83
Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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