Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 49.22
Liaison Paul Scanlon
Submission Date March 4, 2022

STARS v2.2

Slippery Rock University
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 6.41 / 14.00 Paul Scanlon
Special Assistant to the President
President's Office/Sustainability
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Part 1. Sustainability course offerings

Figures required to calculate the percentage of courses offered by the institution that are sustainability course offerings:
Undergraduate Graduate
Total number of courses offered by the institution 979 152
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 28 6
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 50 3

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
7.69

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
36

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
18

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
50

Documentation

A copy of the institution’s inventory of its sustainability course offerings and descriptions:
Do the figures reported above cover one, two, or three academic years?:
One

A brief description of the methodology used to complete the course inventory :
Faculty members met with each department to describe the current STARS definitions for sustainability courses and courses that include a sustainability component, and to request that individual faculty members document those courses they teach that (a) fit under one of these categories, (b) was actually taught during the previous academic year, and (c) had 4 or more students enrolled in the class. Each course was only counted once, regardless of the number of times it was offered during the year. Courses excluded from the inventory included internships, practicums, workshops, thesis, independent studies, courses jointly taught with the Univ. of Pittsburgh, and "one-time only" courses.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Not applicable; no courses with multiple offerings or sections were included

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
NA- They were not counted (only one course was counted even if it was offered multiple times per year).

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the sustainability course offerings is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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