Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 83.26
Liaison Megan Litke
Submission Date Feb. 12, 2014
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STARS v1.2

American University
ER-T2-8: Themed Semester or Year

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Joshua Kaplan
Sustainability Outreach Specialist
Office of Sustainability
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Has the institution chosen a sustainability-related theme for its themed semester, year, or first-year experience during the past three years?:
Yes

A brief description of the themed semester, year, or first-year experience:

Every year incoming first-year students read a community text before attending AU. The 2012 selection was The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone by Seamus McGraw, a nonfiction book about natural gas fracking. Students discussed and wrote about the book in their first semester writing class, and attended a discussion with the author. The book examines the potential profits and risks of natural gas fracking.


The sustainability-related book that was chosen, if applicable:
The End of Country: Dispatches from the Frack Zone by Seamus McGraw

The website URL where information about the theme is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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