Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 46.93
Liaison Kevin Salfen
Submission Date Oct. 21, 2024

STARS v2.2

University of the Incarnate Word
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 3.65 / 14.00 Kevin Salfen
Co-Director, Office of Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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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 1,820 696
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 24 0
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 56 0

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
3.18

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
56

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
20

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
35.71

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
Information about the courses offered in AY 2022-23 were reported by the Director of Institutional Research. The list of sustainability course offerings had already been compiled when the degree plan for the Concentration in Sustainability Studies was being developed, in part through a summer workshop for developing sustainability content in the curriculum.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Other (please describe below)

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
In order to account for courses that were offered only once in an academic year, data from Fall 2022 and Spring 2023 were compiled. If multiple sections of a course were offered in a single semester, that course was only counted once per semester.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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