| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 78.28 |
| Liaison | Lori Collins-Hall |
| Submission Date | Jan. 26, 2017 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Sterling College (VT)
EN-7: Employee Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.00 / 3.00 |
Christian
Feuerstein Director of Communications Communications |
Total number of employees (staff + faculty, headcount):
Number of employees served (i.e. directly targeted) by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program (avoid double-counting):
Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer educator program:
Name of the employee educators program:
Number of employees served (i.e. directly targeted) by the program (headcount):
A brief description of the program, including examples of peer-to-peer outreach activities:
The Lands & Energy committee presents at weekly faculty meetings, periodic All College Meetings, and at weekly community meetings about energy saving ideas, new processes on campus, recycling measures, water use, paper use, and more. They also have put up kiosks across the campus that inform about different features on campus, such as our solar array or hoop houses, and they update those on a yearly basis. They also survey employees yearly for ideas and brainstorming about how to move forward with sustainability issues on campus.
A brief description of how the employee educators are selected:
The employee educators self-select themselves to be on the Lands & Energy Committee. Currently the employees on the Lands & Energy Committee are:
Adrian Owens, faculty in Outdoor Education
Farley Brown, faculty in Ecology
Kelly Jones, Director of Buildings & Grounds
Gwyneth Harris, Farm Manager
A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive to prepare them to conduct peer outreach:
Each year the Director of Communications meets with the Lands & Energy committee as a whole and talks to them about best ways to conduct peer outreach on campus, how to best use the e-news as a vehicle, and updating the kiosks across campus with up-to-date info and graphics.
A brief description of the financial and/or administrative support the institution provides to the program (e.g. annual budget and/or paid faculty/staff coordination):
Sterling College has a budget line for the Lands & Energy committee that can go toward training and outreach materials. There is also a weekly e-news from the Communications office that goes out to faculty & staff that has periodic updates from the Lands & Energy committee. The same updates also reach students.
Name of the employee educators program (2nd program):
Number of employees served (i.e. directly targeted) by the program (headcount) (2nd program):
A brief description of the program, including examples of peer-to-peer outreach activities (2nd program):
A brief description of how the employee educators are selected (2nd program):
A brief description of the formal training that the employee educators receive to prepare them to conduct peer outreach (2nd program):
A brief description of the financial and/or administrative support the institution provides to the program (e.g. annual budget and/or paid faculty/staff coordination) (2nd program):
A brief description of all other employee peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs, including the number of employees served and how employee educators are selected, trained, and supported by the institution:
Total number of hours employee educators are engaged in peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education activities annually:
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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