Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.74
Liaison Stephen Ellis
Submission Date March 1, 2016
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STARS v2.0

Boston University
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Dennis Carlberg
Associate Vice President for Sustainability
BU Sustainability
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The percentage of 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 Sustainability Director and Outreach Coordinator provide an orientation presentation during each of the seven weeks of new student orientation each summer and one session for students entering in the spring term. The presentation introduces students to sustainable principles, quantitative facts, and initiatives that take place on campus, including efforts toward energy saving and the sustainable criteria BU’s Dining services fill. Encouraging specific sustainable habits that they can adopt as soon as students move in and start adapting to their new environment, they are provided with practical information such as the location of recycling bins, what bulbs to use, sustainable printing behaviors, where indoor and outdoor bike racks can be found and how to sustainability get around campus. All students receive reusable water bottles and recycling fabric bags when given keys to their new living space. In addition, sustainability@BU holds a booth at the main fair amongst other on campus organizations, exposing students with what they can expect, what is expected of them, opportunities to get involved and what resources and events are available to them.


The website URL where information about sustainability in student orientation is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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