| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 48.08 |
| Liaison | Maddie LoDico |
| Submission Date | Feb. 5, 2013 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Colby College
ER-T2-7: Outdoors Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.25 / 0.25 |
Jed
Wartman Associate Dean of Students and Director of Campus Life Campus Life |
Does the institution have a wilderness or outdoors program that organizes hiking, backpacking, kayaking, or other outings for students and follows Leave No Trace principles?:
A brief description of the program:
Colby College has been a member of the Leave No Trace partnership since 2009.
The Colby Outing Club is a student run program that schedules hikes, kayaking trips, and other outdoor activities. It also provides students with equipment for a broad range of activities, including camping, hiking, backpacking, ice/rock climbing, cross country skiing, canoeing, kayaking, snow shoeing, etc. The officers of this club are offered an optional LNT certificate course. Ten students were involved last year. These students apply many of these principles during the club’s scheduled trips.
http://www.colby.edu/campus_cs/clubs/coc/
The Colby Outdoor Orientation Trips (COOT) program is offered to all first year students entering Colby in either the fall or spring semester. The students are divided into groups, each of which goes on a different trip. The majority of the trips involve backpacking or camping in established campgrounds in Maine. Each group is assigned three COOT leaders who are chosen from the student body using an application and interview process. These 140 or so leaders are required to go through a two day Leave No Trace (LNT) training program and are provided with durable LNT note cards designed to be attached to a backpack with a carabineer for easy reference. The goal of the COOT program is to build strong bonds between incoming freshmen while instilling them with the principles necessary to interact with the outdoors in a respectful and sustainable manner.
http://www.colby.edu/administration_cs/dos/coot/index.cfm
The website URL where information about the program is available:
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