Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 58.26
Liaison Caitlin McLennan
Submission Date Oct. 10, 2022

STARS v2.2

Utah State University
EN-9: Staff Professional Development and Training

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.25 / 2.00 Alexi Lamm
Sustainability Coordinator
Facilities
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Does the institution make available professional development and training opportunities in sustainability to all non-academic staff at least once per year?:
Yes

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (the rate of staff participation in sustainability professional development and training)?:
Yes

Estimated percentage of regular, non-academic staff that participates annually in sustainability professional development and training:
1-24%

If sustainability professional development and training opportunities for staff are made available or supported, provide at least one of the following:

A brief description of any internal sustainability professional development and training opportunities that the institution makes available to non-academic staff:
The Sustainability Council supports the Green Office program. Offices can choose to participate and receive one group training per year and one-on-one guidance about specific issues within their office at any time. The Green office program is available to any office on campus.

A brief description of any external professional development and training opportunities in sustainability that are supported by the institution :
In 2021, USU was a host institution for the AASHE conference, which opened 200 registrations for USU students and employees. The Sustainability Council also supports a limited number of people to attend the Intermountain Sustainability Summit every year. Usually, students take the available spots. Since this is limited by budget, we are not including these numbers in the percentage of people reached for this credit.

Optional Fields 

Estimated percentage of regular non-academic staff for which sustainability is included in performance reviews:
0

A brief description of how sustainability is included in staff performance reviews :
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Website URL where information about staff professional development and training in sustainability is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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