Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 75.14
Liaison Kylee Singh
Submission Date July 10, 2023

STARS v2.2

California Polytechnic State University
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.55 / 3.00 Kylee Singh
Sustainability Coordinator
Energy Utilities and Sustainability
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Total number of employees:
2,995

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
100

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
3.34

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
Green Office Program

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):

The Green Office Certification (GOC) Program at Cal Poly is designed to engage all employees including students, staff and faculty in implementing sustainable practices in their workplace. The program provides a method to educate and evaluate how sustainable a particular office is and uses a point system to quantify these efforts.

GOC focuses on actions that individuals can practice rather than infrastructure changes. By participating in the GOC, the office can educate and engage its employees, reduce its environmental footprint, save the university money, and meet campus sustainability goals.

The employee educators participating in the Green Office program work with Sustainability staff to learn all the ways in which their office and colleagues can be more sustainable. The educators are trained in 3 1 hour training sessions and expected to incorporate their learning through staff meetings and team communications.


A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):

The Green Office Certification (GOC) Program at Cal Poly is designed to engage all employees including students, staff and faculty in implementing sustainable practices in their workplace.


Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
25

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
52

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

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
1,300

Website URL where information about the employee educators program is available (1st program) :
Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
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Number of trained employee educators (2nd program):
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Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (2nd program):
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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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Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (all other programs):
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Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all other programs):
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Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (all programs):
1,300

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.43

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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