Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 49.10
Liaison David Husemoller
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

College of Lake County
EN-1: Student Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 4.00 Kamden Kuklinski
Intern
Sustainability
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Number of students enrolled for credit:
14,193

Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
12

Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
0.08

Name of the student educators program (1st program):
Environmental Club

A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):

CLC's Environmental Club choose its own peer-to-peer outreach activities throughout the year. This year, they led a presentation on ethylene oxide (EtO) use in the region, the dangers, and how students can get involved. This was a student led presentation, but we had a community organizer available on speaker phone to answer questions that students had. Students gave presentations on water pollution, the forest fires in Brazil, and recycling. The students made organic, vegan pancakes at the meeting and had a presentation on the impacts of agriculture and how our food choices can impact the environment. They volunteered to paint rocks for the Japanese garden. The club hosted a campus clean-up day last fall, which attracted about 15 students. The club organized the Mr. Lancer competition last semester, a male talent show, that raised money for teamtrees.org, a social media campaign which raised enough money to plant over 21 million trees last year. The club showed two environmentally related movies (The Lorax and Wall-E) last semester.


A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):

The target audience of of CLC's Environmental Club is a combination of the student body and the greater community. This club seeks to ensure all who interact with the campus are able to do so in a way that is friendly to the environment and that all students served by this campus are educated in both local and global environmental issues.


Number of trained student educators (1st program):
5

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (1st program):
30

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (1st program):
2

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (1st program):
300

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (1st program):
Name of the student educators program (2nd program):
Sustainability Club

A brief description of the student educators program (2nd program):

CLC's Sustainability Club chose its own peer-to-peer outreach activities throughout the year. This year, they hosted a beach clean-up event in Wisconsin which attracted about 25 people. They hosted the campus and community pumpkin composting event with the Engineering Club which impacted 10-12 Engineering students and/or club members and involved an estimated 75 community members. They participated in our 50th Anniversary Tree-Planting, screened a Ted Talk on the Climate Crisis and music for a club meeting, and educated the campus community on recycling with the Recycling Wheel game.


A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (2nd program):

The target audience of CLC's Sustainability Club is a combination of the student body and the greater community. The club makes a special emphasis on community service in order to ensure that the environmental, social, and economic needs of the community are met.


Number of trained student educators (2nd program):
3

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (2nd program):
28

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (2nd program):
1

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (2nd program):
90

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (2nd program):
Name of the student educators program (3rd program):
Reduce, Recycle, Compost

A brief description of the student educators program (3rd program):

This program is designed to stop people at the waste center after lunch in order to educate them about how they can effectively and sustainably sort their waste. Student ambassadors are trained by the campus' Sustainability Manager and work one hour shifts, five days each week, to accomplish this goal. This program is in effect at the start of the spring and fall semesters as well as during Earth Week.


A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (3rd program):

The target audience of this initiative is students approaching the waste center after lunch. The goal is to ensure that these students are able to understand the information presented to them on the signage above the waste bins.


Number of trained student educators (3rd program):
10

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (3rd program):
3

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (3rd program):
1

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (3rd program):
30

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (3rd program):
A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Number of trained student educators (all other programs):
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Number of weeks, on average, the student educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
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Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per student educator (all other programs) :
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Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (all other programs):
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Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators (all programs):
420

Hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators per student served by a peer-to-peer program:
35

Website URL where information about the student sustainability educators programs is available:
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