Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 53.05
Liaison April Thompson
Submission Date Sept. 22, 2023

STARS v2.2

Creighton University
EN-5: Outreach Campaign

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.00 / 4.00 April Thompson
Project and Reporting Coordinator
Office of Sustainability
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Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at students and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes

Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at employees and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes

1st campaign 

Name of the campaign:
Energy Reduction Challenge Spring 2022

A brief description of the campaign:
One of Creighton Environmental Club, the Green Jays applied and was awarded funding to create a monitoring webpage to track dorms energy usage for a specified number of weeks.

A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign:
Using a dashboard, students could see the energy being used by each resident hall.
During the competition, students were conscientious about their energy usage. After the two-week competition, as a whole the resident halls reduced their energy usage by 8 megawatts.

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2nd campaign

Name of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Move- Out Week

A brief description of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Student lead Move Out programs organized volunteers over a week to collect unwanted dorm furniture to donate to a local nonprofit organization that gives aid to refugees.

A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
The success was measured by number of volunteers involved and truckloads of furniture that will help local families that are displace for many reasonsl.

Optional Fields

A brief description of other sustainability-related outreach campaigns:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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