Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 58.23
Liaison Sarah Williams
Submission Date July 24, 2023

STARS v2.2

Whitman College
AC-1: Academic Courses

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 13.00 / 14.00 Sarah Williams
Sustainability Manager
Office of Sustainability, Facilities Services
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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 1,264 0
Number of sustainability-focused courses offered 37 0
Number of sustainability-inclusive courses offered 219 0

Percentage of courses that are sustainability course offerings:
20.25

Part 2. Sustainability course offerings by department

Total number of academic departments that offer courses:
40

Number of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
30

Percentage of academic departments with sustainability course offerings:
75

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 :
Working from the current course catalogs and a report of course offerings provided by the Office of Institutional Research, course descriptions were evaluated on whether they met the criteria for being sustainability-focused, sustainability-inclusive, does not qualify, or excluded.

How were courses with multiple offerings or sections counted for the figures reported above?:
Each offering or section of a course was counted as an individual course

A brief description of how courses with multiple offerings or sections were counted:
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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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