Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 50.18
Liaison Allen Bottorff
Submission Date Oct. 8, 2012
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STARS v1.2

Valencia College
ER-6: Sustainability-Focused Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.32 / 10.00 Deborah Green
Director of Sustainability
Facilities
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The number of sustainability-focused courses offered :
16

The total number of courses offered :
690

Number of years covered by the data:
One

A list of sustainability-focused courses offered:

Environmental Science;
Florida Environmental Systems;
Central Florida Habitats;
Everglades Ecology;
Neotropical Ecology;;
Neotropical Biology; 
Introduction to Birdwatching; 
Natural History of Florida Rivers; 
Introduction to Alternative and Renewable Energy;
Engineering Materials and Processes; 
Materials and Methods of Construction;
Building Materials and Construction Methods;
Building Service Systems;
Types and Systems of Agricultural Operations; 
Introduction to Horticulture and Landscape Technology;
Soils and Fertilizers


The website URL where the publicly available sustainability course inventory that includes a list of sustainability-focused courses is available:
A copy of the sustainability course inventory:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

A Sustainability Across the Curriculum Qualtrics Survey was administered by email on September 11, 2012. The purpose of the survey was to request full time and adjunct instructors to identify courses that were Sustainability-focused and Sustainability-related as well as to gauge interest in the upcoming Sustainability Across the Curriculum Professional Development course. 219 faculty members opened the survey and 106 completed it.


A Sustainability Across the Curriculum Qualtrics Survey was administered by email on September 11, 2012. The purpose of the survey was to request full time and adjunct instructors to identify courses that were Sustainability-focused and Sustainability-related as well as to gauge interest in the upcoming Sustainability Across the Curriculum Professional Development course. 219 faculty members opened the survey and 106 completed it.

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