Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 73.84
Liaison Andrew Horning
Submission Date Dec. 19, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Michigan
EN-12: Continuing Education

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 5.00 / 5.00 Andrew Horning
Managing Director
Graham Sustainability Institute
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Part 1 . Continuing education courses in sustainability

Total number of continuing education courses offered:
143

Number of continuing education courses that are sustainability course offerings:
17

Percentage of continuing education courses that are sustainability course offerings:
11.89

Course Inventory 

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

Part 2. Sustainability-focused certificate program

Does the institution have at least one sustainability-focused certificate program through its continuing education or extension department?:
Yes

A brief description of the certificate program(s):
The Planet Blue Ambassador Program allows alumni to continue their education be learning how to be "models" of sustainability. To earn a certificate, five training modules must be completed. The modules are related to energy, food, water, waste and community.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s continuing education courses and programs in sustainability is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The data submitted for the Continuing Education courses comes from our current Coursera offerings at the time of submission. We are using Coursera courses as a proxy for all U-M Continuing Education offerings because there is no way to gather data on all U-M continuing ed offerings. Such offerings originate at many levels (e.g., school/college, departments, institutes, centers, programs, alumni association, etc.). There is no centralized system in place to identify how many courses are offered, who's offering them, and what their content is. Because Coursera is a university-sanctioned platform that is open to faculty throughout the university, we believe it provides a reliable and relevant proxy for all Continuing Ed offerings across the university.

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