Western University
PRE-4: Reporting Methodologies

Each of the sections were divided between the 5 lead personnel (Office of Sustainability staff), and campus partners were  identified for each data point.  The campus partners provided all requested data, and the leads verified the data with publicly available information where possible.  All data was tracked in a modified version of the STARS 3.0 Credit Checklist, to ensure that all required data was collected prior to entering the submission in the STARS Reporting Tool.

The members of the Office of Sustainability led the reporting process, including Joan Ang, Jessica Cordes, Laura Mantz, Mary-Lee Townsend and Heather Hyde.

Many different groups on contributed data and information for this STARS submission. These include

·        Office of the Registrar

·        Institutional Planning and Budgeting

·        Student Experience

·        Housing and Ancillary Services

·        Procurement Services

·        Finance

·        Western Research

·        Human Resources

·        Government Relations

·        Continuing Education

·        Student Experience

·        Sports and Recreation

·        Western Libraries

·        Facilities Management

Once data was collected and updated in the STARS 3.0 Credit Checklist, the information was reviewed by another member of the Sustainability Team and preliminary scores were calculated based on the STARS 3.0 Technical Manual.  Data comparisons were made between the data collected for this submission and previous submissions, where possible, to verify trends or anomalies in the data.  The data was uploaded into the STARS reporting tool by one member of the Sustainability Team to ensure consistency.  Once uploaded, it was saved as “In Progress” in the tool.  The final review of the data was done in the STARS reporting tool when the original member of the team that collected the data and prepared the response for each credit reviewed each of their credits in the Reporting Tool itself.