| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 67.84 |
| Liaison | Noah Upchurch |
| Submission Date | March 1, 2024 |
Catawba College
EN-1: Student Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
3.81 / 4.00 |
Noah
Upchurch Senior Sustainability Specialist Center for the Environment |
Number of students enrolled for credit:
Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
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Name of the student educators program (1st program):
A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):
Environmental Stewards Program:
Reinvigorated in 2023, the Environmental Stewards Program is a service-based environmental education and leadership program for students at Catawba College. 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:
- Conducting Zero-Waste events for athletics, student life, and more by collecting and sorting waste while simultaneously engaging campus community members on issues of consumption
- Giving tours of the Fred Stanback Jr. Ecological Preserve for students and other members of the campus community, highlighting several ecological features and interactions that are present on the College's campus
- Conducting a Food Waste Audit in the College's Dining Hall in order to understand how much food is being wasted. While collecting food waste, the Stewards engage and interview students and employees alike on the causes and effects of food waste
- Holding SDG Movie Nights for all students to learn more, and engage with each other, about the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals through the lens of a series of movies, which are screened in the Center for the Environment building
- Designing and planting several native gardens across the College's campus, providing the opportunity for the campus community to learn more about the benefits of native plants and sustainable landscape design
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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A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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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 (2023-24). Information was collected from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).
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