Organizational Development, Equity, and Health

Developed by the Office of Sustainability in 2012, Green Spaces celebrates the efforts of offices and events that strive for sustainability. The program allows for three levels of certification (Bronze, Silver, and Green & Gold) in a process that encourages across campus to adopt sustainable practices in their work, school, and living environments. Participants sign up for the program and a leader within their organization is identified who guides the office or event planning through a series of sustainable actions. The actions are identified on an easy to use checklist that is customizable to the needs of the space or event itself. A Green Office is defined by the Office of Sustainability as a ‘work unit that has made a collective commitment to reducing resource use and improving the overall sustainability of their day to day operations.’ A Green Event is ‘an event of conference that incorporates multiple sustainable features into its delivery and attendees are encouraged

At OLE, we are proud to be recognized among the leaders and developers of learning and development on campus at the UofA. Check out an excerpt on learning and development opportunities from the April issue of the NASA newsletter entitled @WORK  (Sent 23 April 2013):   Learning & Development Opportunities—Everywhere You Look There are a number of venues from which you can access learning. There are also a variety of funding sources that you might be able to use in pursuit of your development goals. Within the Collective Agreement, you will find tuition remission for University (of Alberta) Credit Courses as well as the Human Resources Development Fund (HRDF). They provide support in very different ways. After one year of service, Regular and Auxiliary employees are entitled to a subsidy for credit courses. Tuition remission applies only to the instructional fee attached to the credit course; as a student, you are still responsible for all the non-instructional fees (e.