Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 68.42
Liaison Andrew D'Amico
Submission Date Aug. 25, 2021

STARS v2.2

Princeton University
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.23 / 3.00 Shana Weber
Director
Office of Sustainability
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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:
7,157

Total number of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
3,506

Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
48.99

1st program 

Name of the employee educators program (1st program):
Sustainability Staff Ambassadors

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):
The Ambassadors attend seasonal lunch and learn sessions during the academic year. There are four sessions total including, an orientation that covers the history of sustainability initiatives at the institution and the progress made toward reaching the University’s sustainability goals; how to incorporate sustainability at work; how to live sustainably at home; and a student-led green tour of campus.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):
Sustainability Ambassadors are either appointed by their department directors to participate in the program or are self-nominated. Additionally, a growing number of Ambassadors are referred to the program by alumni of the program.

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):
149

Number of weeks the employee educators program is active annually (1st program):
39

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):
5,811

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):
5,811

Hours worked annually by trained employee sustainability educators per employee served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.81

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The number of employees served was determined by totaling the number of employees in each of the departments that have one or more sustainability staff ambassadors.

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