WHO WE A R E
S U RVEYING FACU LT Y ENG AG E M E N T
The first survey on faculty interest in sustainability at
Kent State University was conducted in 2010; this survey
revealed a number of very small pockets of interest in
different colleges across the university. Resulting faculty
gatherings produced a multidisciplinary minor in Sustainability,
housed in the College of Applied Engineering, Sustainability
and Technology, and first offered in 2013. This 19-credit
minor contains six elective sustainability-infused courses
from the College of Business Administration: Principles of
Microeconomics, Economics of the Environment, Introduction
to Entrepreneurship, Principles of Management, Supply
Chain Management and the Business Case for Sustainability.
These were the only sustainability-infused courses in the
College of Business Administration in 2013.
College faculty voted to be come a member of
PRME. The second College survey occurred in May
2017. This survey found that sustainability/CSR content was
now in 48 courses! Clear progress.
The SDGs were introduced to the College in August 2017. The
third College survey occurred in May 2018. This survey found
that sustainability/CSR/SDGs had been incorporated in at least
60 courses, primarily at the undergraduate level.
The first survey on faculty interest in sustainability in the
College of Business Administration was administered in 2015.
Results indicated that sustainability/CSR content had spread
to a few courses beyond those supporting the sustainability
minor. Prior to the start of the 2015-16 academic year, the
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