Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 73.84
Liaison Andrew Horning
Submission Date Dec. 19, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Michigan
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.51 / 3.00 Andrew Horning
Managing Director
Graham Sustainability Institute
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Total number of employees:
45,269

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
45,269

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

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

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):

The University of Michigan Green Team Program encourages U-M staff and faculty to join in working towards a more sustainable university by increasing sustainability practices in their workplace. By engaging staff and faculty in a voluntary program, we can promote sustainable behavior across the campus, make greater strides toward our sustainability goals, and strengthen our position as a leader in sustainability. Any staff or faculty can start a green team in their workplace or at a building level. Green Team members gain access to a suite of resources, small scale grant funding, monthly collaboration sessions, and support from a staff liaison with the Office of Campus Sustainability.


A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):

All U-M Ann Arbor staff


Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
450

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
52

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
0.75

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
338

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :
Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
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A brief description of the employee educators program (2nd program):
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A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
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Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):
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Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):
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Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (2nd program):
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Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (2nd program):
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Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (2nd program):
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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):
338

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.01

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The Green Team program is tracked by the number of teams, not by individuals. We have approximately 200 Green Teams registered on campus with an average size of 2-3 people. We used these averages to calculate the total number of trained employee educators as well as the total number of hours worked.


The Green Team program is tracked by the number of teams, not by individuals. We have approximately 200 Green Teams registered on campus with an average size of 2-3 people. We used these averages to calculate the total number of trained employee educators as well as the total number of hours worked.

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