Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 79.37
Liaison Jillian Leach
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

California State University, Chico
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.19 / 3.00 Jennifer Rotnem
Director of Energy and Sustainability
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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:
1,981

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
1,018

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
51.39

1st program 

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
SCOOP

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
Sustainable Consultations of Office Practices (SCOOP) is designed to assess current practices in an office setting. Through assessment, SCOOP formulates sustainable recommendations for improvements to achievable sustainable office goals. Student consultants are fully trained on how to measure energy, recycling, lighting, and other practices. They then work with offices to implement changes and train at least one SCOOP Champion per office consulted. This person is educated and empowered to act as a role model for sustainable behavior and office practices to their co-workers, and are recognized for their leadership.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
Members are trained to integrate the policies of the SCOOP handbook into the workplace, working with faculty and staff. SCOOP’s ultimate goal is to create effective and lasting partnerships among the students, faculty and Green Campus collaborative that lead to campus wide sustainable, forward-moving solutions.

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
6

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
32

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained employee educator (1st program):
5

Total number of hours worked annually by trained employee educators (1st program):
960

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

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2nd 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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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):
960

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.48

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Sustainable Consultants of Office Practices (SCOOP) is open to and marketed to all managers, staff, faculty and offices groups on campus. SCOOP typically works with 5-10 offices / year of varying sizes. The estimated total new staff and faculty directly engaged annually at 250. The estimated total staff and faculty in previously certified offices that are served by the group on an ongoing basis through follow-up outreach and events at 750. (Total 1000) 2019 was SCOOP's 10th year of operation, the group has worked with nearly 60 offices across campus to-date, representing many hundred faculty and staff employees. SCOOP Champions from these offices are invited and often participate in ongoing trainings and brown bag luncheons. This program was suspended in 2020, and hasn't resumed after COVID.

SCOOP engages employees as peers on a regular basis. SCOOP employee educators are responsible for engaging all managers, staff, faculty and offices groups on campus; however campus staff are the primary group of employees directly targeted and served by the program. Since all campus managers and staff are targeted, we used the total number of managers and staff on campus in 2019 as the "total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program" as per the credit guidelines eventhough not all staff employees actively participate.

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