Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	73.33
Liaison	Maria Dahmus
Submission Date	Nov. 30, 2023

STARS v2.2

University of St. Thomas
EN-7: Employee Educators Program

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	1.54 / 3.00	Rachel Harris Director of Finance & Planning Student Affairs

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Part 1. Percentage of employees served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Total number of employees:

1,996

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

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

2.76

1st program

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

Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED)

A brief description of the employee educators program (1st program):

At the University of St. Thomas, SEED is a peer-to-peer-focused education program that trains our St. Thomas employees to become “experts” in creating conversational communities to drive change toward greater equity and diversity, and these SEED leader experts then train their peers on these topics through a 25-hour SEED seminar. To lead a SEED seminar, a faculty or staff member participates in New Leaders Training through the national SEED organization, a national program that trains hundreds of educators, parents and community leaders (https://www.nationalseedproject.org/). SEED leaders also put in about 10-20 additional hours of prep time for each year's seminar. SEED is sponsored by the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. We have had 285+ faculty and staff participate in a SEED seminar over the last five+ years.

A brief description of the employee educators program’s target audience (1st program):

Full time Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Exempt and Non-exempt Staff are the target audience of this program.

Number of trained employee educators (1st program):

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

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

2.50

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

300

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

https://one.stthomas.edu/sites/office-of-the-president/office-for-diversity-equity-and-inclusion/SitePageModern/96417/seed

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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):

300

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

0.15

Optional Fields

Website URL where information about the employee sustainability educators programs is available:

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Additional documentation to support the submission:

Seeking_Educational_Equity__Diversity_SEED.pdf

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

The total number of employees and information about the SEED program are based on current program status and offerings at the time of submission for fall 2023. As a result, the total number of employees in this credit varies slightly from those reported in PRE 5.

The website URL where information about the employee educators program is available is through the St. Thomas intranet, OneStThomas, which requires a University of St. Thomas login to view. Attached is a PDF of the home page of the SEED OneStThomas site.

Additional information about the SEED program at St. Thomas and the National SEED Project Workshop hosted at St. Thomas in 2022 can be viewed at: https://news.stthomas.edu/driving-change-st-thomas-hosts-national-seed-project-workshop/

SEED National Program website:
https://www.nationalseedproject.org/

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