Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 80.84
Liaison Teddy Lhoutellier
Submission Date April 26, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of Miami
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.84 / 3.00 Teddy Lhoutellier
Sustainability Manager
Environmental Health and Safety
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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:
11,035

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
11,035

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
100

1st program 

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
Green Office Program

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
University of Miami faculty and staff are invited to volunteer as Green Liaisons for their respective offices and pursue the Green Office Certification. Green Liaisons will share information about environmental sustainability initiatives and opportunities while identifying improvements in their own units, to support the University’ Sustainability Mission. The Green Office Program awards units a certification level dependent on the amount of sustainable actions they undertake each year.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
The Green Office Program is mainly targeting staff, but faculty and student employees can also lead their office to certification if they want to.

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
200

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
44

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):
8,800

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :

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2nd Program

Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
Green Lab Program

A brief description of the employee educators program (2nd program):
University of Miami faculty and staff are invited to volunteer as Green Liaisons for their respective labs and pursue the Green Lab Certification. University of Miami’s Green Lab Program is designed to promote and support world-class science by engaging researchers in best practices to enhance safety, conserve resources, and reduce waste.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
Lab PIs, Lab Managers, Researchers, Graduate and Undergraduate students in labs.

Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):
24

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):
44

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (2nd program):
1

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (2nd program):
1,056

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (2nd program):

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Additional Programs 

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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Part 2. Educator hours per employee served by a peer-to-peer program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):
9,856

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.89

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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