Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 63.24
Liaison Victoria Ho
Submission Date Feb. 8, 2024

STARS v2.2

OCAD University
EN-9: Staff Professional Development and Training

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.25 / 2.00 Victoria Ho
Advisor, Strategic Sustainability
Office of Diversity, Equity & Sustainability Initiatives
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Does the institution make available professional development and training opportunities in sustainability to all non-academic staff at least once per year?:
Yes

Does the institution wish to pursue Part 2 of this credit (the rate of staff participation in sustainability professional development and training)?:
Yes

Estimated percentage of regular, non-academic staff that participates annually in sustainability professional development and training:
1-24%

If sustainability professional development and training opportunities for staff are made available or supported, provide at least one of the following:

A brief description of any internal sustainability professional development and training opportunities that the institution makes available to non-academic staff:
Training topics include:
Integrating sustainability into strategic planning
United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
Circular economy concepts
Intro to Climate Crisis
Food waste reduction strategies
Reusing materials for model-making

A brief description of any external professional development and training opportunities in sustainability that are supported by the institution :
Procurement staff take Sustainable Procurement training
Social procurement training
Sustainability staff take waste audit training
Climate anxiety and climate grief training
Life cycle analysis and life cycle cost workshop

Optional Fields 

Estimated percentage of regular non-academic staff for which sustainability is included in performance reviews:
1-24%

A brief description of how sustainability is included in staff performance reviews :
Sustainability is included in the institutional scorecards for OCAD U's executive leadership.

Website URL where information about staff professional development and training in sustainability is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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