| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 53.57 |
| Liaison | Noah Upchurch |
| Submission Date | March 3, 2023 |
Catawba College
EN-1: Student Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.08 / 4.00 |
Cathy
Green Operations Director Center for the Environment |
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A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):
Environmental Stewards Service Scholarship Program:
Established in 2012, the Environmental Stewards Service Scholarship Program is a service-based environmental education program for students at Catawba College. Stewards embody the ideals, values and commitment of conservationists and environmental stewards. The Environmental Stewards program helps the College to sustain a dynamic community of learners and seeks to unite a diverse population of students, faculty and staff as active co-participants in scholarship and service. Stewards are awarded financial support and are expected to create student serving education-based sustainability projects throughout their time in the program.
The vision that drives the Environmental Stewards Service Scholarship Program is that service and commitment to environmental stewardship are vital to the complete education of our future leaders. Through the Environmental Stewards Service Scholarship Program, Catawba College enables talented and committed students to develop as community leaders with the skills necessary to create positive change in their present and future communities.
Environmental Stewards are student leaders who wish to make a greater commitment to environmental stewardship and work with the Catawba College Center for the Environment to make the Center’s ambitious educational efforts even better.
The Environmental Stewards Program is a peer educators program, but also provides the opportunity for individual service and project creation. Examples of programs run and projects completed by Stewards include:
Recycling Day – Stewards set up educational displays in student community center to demonstrate habits of recycling. Presentations were given to students on a rolling basis throughout the day.
Sustainable Garden Renewal – Stewards replaced deteriorating garden beds within Catawba’s Sustainable Garden with longer lasting, more sustainable beds, cleaned up the garden area, and implemented gardening methods such as hügelkultur and no till gardening.
Outdoor Learning Benches – Stewards built benches that were placed by the lake in the Fred Stanback, Jr. Ecological preserve. These benches allow for Catawba classes and visiting K-12 classes to use this area as an outdoor classroom.
Girl Scout Wildlife Day – Stewards conducted an outdoor education event on the Fred Stanback, Jr. Ecological Preserve for Girl Scout Troops to work toward obtaining their environmentally based badges.
Campus Wildlife Day - Stewards conducted an indoor education program in Catawba College’s Center for the Environment and an outdoor education event on the Fred Stanback, Jr. Ecological Preserve for interested Catawba students, faculty, and staff. Interactive programming involved various types of wildlife education.
Stewards Energy Showcase – Stewards set up tables in the student center to highlight energy efficiency practices and alternative energy options for our community and beyond.
Tower Gardens – Stewards set-up, showcased, and maintained tower gardens which grew various herbs and leafy green vegetables.
Paracords for bird strikes – Stewards created a diversion system using paracord hanging in front of windows to help cut down on the number of bird strikes and bird deaths related to the reflective windows on the Center for the Environment.
Movie Series – Stewards planned and carried out a series of events showcasing sustainability-themed movies.
Sustainability at Catawba Assessment – Stewards conducted an open assessment of how people understand “sustainability” at Catawba. Informal interviews were conducted with campus staff, students, and faculty in variety of departments/offices to gather information regarding sustainability habits and needs.
Bees and Honey – Stewards participated in bee keeping education class, maintained bee boxes located in the Fred Stanback, Jr. Ecological Preserve. Stewards were involved in the harvesting and canning of the honey.
Stewards are trained by Center for the Environment Staff, Faculty, or other professional programs before training their peers to interact with and help with projects.
*Note – The Environmental Stewards Service Scholarship Program was suspended during the Covid-19 pandemic and is in the process of being reinstated.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):
The Environmental Stewards Program targets education for all on-campus student peers. Some projects also target education for community groups and faculty members.
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Students served by peer-to-peer educators program is based on an estimate of all on-campus students, since the Stewards program targets education for all in-person students, but not fully online students. This figure is from the most recent year of active Environmental Stewards (2019-2020) due to suspension of the program for the Covid-19 pandemic. Information was collected from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).
Students served by peer-to-peer educators program is based on an estimate of all on-campus students, since the Stewards program targets education for all in-person students, but not fully online students. This figure is from the most recent year of active Environmental Stewards (2019-2020) due to suspension of the program for the Covid-19 pandemic. Information was collected from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).
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