| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 61.45 |
| Liaison | Alan Brew |
| Submission Date | July 30, 2011 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Northland College
PAE-15: Employee Sustainability Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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5.00 / 5.00 |
Total number of people employed by the institution:
Program name (1st program) :
Number of employees served by the program (1st program):
A brief description of how the employee educators are selected (1st program):
Education is a key mechanism of the community change led by Environmental Council. Staff educators are appointed to the committee based on their roles at the college. Faculty educators are elected to the committee by Faculty Council once per year.
A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive (1st program):
Because we have a forty-year-old environmental liberal arts mission, sustainability literacy is very high and widespread at Northland. We attempt to follow a transformative model of education rather than a transmissive model. Rather than the institution training employee educators, we leverage the disciplinary and professional expertise of our faculty and staff to describe the interdisciplinary and cross-functional emergent properties of sustainability at Northland. In a sense, employee educators train the institution. Those faculty and staff facilitate the strategic development of sustainability theory and praxis with their peers. So, the formal training employee educators receive is decentralized, employee-driven, and discipline-specific, rather than imposed from "above".
A brief description of the staff and/or other financial support the institution provides to the program (1st program):
Staff participation is counted as part of work responsibilities. Faculty participation is counted as part of faculty service to the institution, and is part of faculty load. Approximately 17 work-study students support the work of Environmental Council.
The website URL where information about the program is available (1st program):
Program name (2nd program):
Number of employees served by the program (2nd program):
A brief description of how the employee educators are selected (2nd program):
Staff and faculty are appointed to the Sustainability Work Group by the President and Cabinet.
A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive (2nd program):
Because we have a forty-year-old environmental liberal arts mission, sustainability literacy is very high at Northland. We also attempt to follow a transformative model of education rather than a transmissive model. Rather than the institution training employee educators, we leverage the disciplinary and professional expertise of our faculty and staff to describe the interdisciplinary and cross-functional emergent properties of sustainability at Northland. Those faculty and staff facilitate the strategic development of sustainability theory and praxis with their peers. So, the formal training employee educators receive is decentralized, employee-driven, and discipline-specific, rather than imposed from "above".
A brief description of the financial or other support the institution provides to the program (2nd program):
The work of staff members of the Sustainability Working Group is built into regular job responsibilities. Faculty members of the Sustainability Working Group are given one course release to support their time commitment to this group.
The website URL where information about the program is available (2nd program):
Program name(s) (all other programs):
Number of employees served by the program(s) (all other programs):
A brief description of how the employee educators are selected (all other programs):
A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive (all other programs):
A brief description of the staff and/or other financial support the institution provides to the program(s) (all other programs):
The website URL where information about the program(s) is available (all other programs):
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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