Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 69.86
Liaison Nicole Arsenault
Submission Date April 3, 2024

STARS v2.2

York University
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.55 / 3.00 Nicole Arsenault
Program Director, Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:
6,474

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
200

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
3.09

1st program 

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
SDGs-in-the-Classroom Community of Practice

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
"The SDGs in the Classroom Toolkit enables the pan-university interdisciplinary infusion of the SDGs into classrooms at York University which reinforces the commitment to make positive change for students, campuses, and our local and global communities. The toolkit provides instructors with academic information, practical materials, and examples along with tools and resources to assist them with infusing the SDGs into their classrooms. There are three trained education leaders who are responsible for hosting faculty workships, conference presentations, community of practice meetings, and a SDG Teach-in event to train instructors on how to infuse SDGs into their classroom and use the Toolkit.

The SDGs-in-the Classroom Community of Practice (CoP) at York is created with a vision to track, weave, amplify and inspire the infusion of the SDGs into the curriculum. It is for York faculty and instructors who are involved or interested in infusing the SDGs into the curriculum across the campus. The CoP group members, known as SDG Curricular Champions, support and mentor other faculty in the university to understand the latest pedagogical thinking on how to integrate SDGs into learning and teaching activities.. There are currently 75 CoP members. The Community of Practice has recorded 8 Curricular Champion videos which can be found here: https://www.yorku.ca/unsdgs/toolkit/the-sdgs-in-the-classroom-community-of-practice-york-university/curriculum-champions-of-the-sdgs-at-yorku/"

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
Staff and faculty at York University.

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
3

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
47

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
10

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
1,410

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :

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2nd Program

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Additional Programs 

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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Part 2. Educator hours per employee served by a peer-to-peer program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):
1,410

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.22

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