Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 60.97
Liaison Natalie Hayes
Submission Date Aug. 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

Bentley University
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Natalie Hayes
Associate Director of Sustainability
Office of Sustainability
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Are the following students provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability?:
Yes or No
First-year students Yes
Transfer students Yes
Entering graduate students Yes

Percentage of all entering students that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability:
100

A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation :

The Office of Sustainability educates the Orientation Leaders (OLs) each August on basic sustainability issues on campus. OL's then share this information with incoming freshmen during new student orientation. In addition, the Office of Sustainability co-sponsors a water bottle and literature in new student packets that they receive which includes information on recycling, water bottle filling stations on campus and transportation.

The Office of Sustainability educates Residence Directors (RDs) and Resident Advisors (RAs) each August on recycling, waste and energy use issues in residence halls. RDs and RAs in turn educate Bentley's residential students on living sustainably in Bentley's residence halls.

Transfer students go through the same orientation process as first-year students and therefore receive the same information.

Graduate students attend a Graduate Resources fair where the Office of Sustainability informs attendants of resources and services available on campus from sustainable commuting to farm-to-table programs.


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