Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 53.17
Liaison Jeane Pope
Submission Date March 4, 2014
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DePauw University
ER-T2-1: Student Group

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Anthony Baratta
Assistant Director for Sustainability
Academic Affairs
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Does the institution have an active student group focused on sustainability?:
Yes

The name and a brief description of each student group:

DePauw has an active student group, the DePauw Environmental Club (DEC), which has pushed for administrative support of sustainability through signing the ACUPCC, Indiana environmental policy, campus and community-wide awareness, and annual educational programming and speakers such as Earth Week.


List up to 4 notable recent activities or accomplishments of student group(s):

*DEC members volunteered on the campus farm.

*DEC members gained approval for an EcoHouse in 2013.

*DEC members organized a successful Earth Week in 2013.

*DEC students help advertise and participate in Energy Wars 2013, including creating a large sign of all the dorms and Greek houses that were participating. The names of each participant were in velcro so that rankings were adjusted each week.


List other student groups that address sustainability:
Green Greeks (Greek Sustainability Group)

The website URL where information about student group(s) is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

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