| Overall Rating | Bronze - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 33.30 |
| Liaison | Bo Solomon |
| Submission Date | March 31, 2021 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Drexel University
EN-3: Student Life
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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1.75 / 2.00 |
Korin
Tangtrakul Sustainability Manager Sustainable Water Resources Engineering Lab |
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Student Groups
Yes
A brief description of active student groups focused on sustainability:
(1) Drexel Sierra Club seeks to spread environmental awareness and instill an appreciation of the natural world in order to reduce Drexel’s environmental impact through its policies and student involvement, and to educate students to continue help them environmental efforts after they graduate.
(2) Fossil Free Drexel advocates for climate justice by pushing Drexel to divest its endowment funds from the fossil fuel industry. Along with colleges and universities around the world, we're standing up and demanding that institutions pull investments out of an exploitative industry and reinvest funds into local and sustainable projects and businesses. Let's say no to fossil fuels and yes to a new, regenerative economy.
The website URL where information about the student groups is available (optional):
Gardens and Farms
Yes
A brief description of the gardens, farms, community supported agriculture (CSA) or fishery programs, and/or urban agriculture projects:
Drexel has a shared garden project with 12 raised vegetable beds at its community resource center, the Dornsife Center for Neighborhood Partnerships. A partnership with the community food access organization Trellis for Tomorrow, both Drexel students and campus neighbors participate in planting, maintenance, and harvesting, and all participants share in the harvests.
Drexel’s Culinary Arts program also maintains a plot in a local community garden called the Summer Winter Garden, part of a network of community gardens around Philadelphia. The Summer Winter Garden is surrounded by Drexel’s campus. Students in the Culinary Arts Course CULA 426, Kitchen Garden, work in the garden and use harvests for course food preparation projects.
The website URL where information about the gardens, farms or agriculture projects is available (optional):
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Student-Run Enterprises
Yes
A brief description of the student-run enterprises:
Sharing Excess is a social enterprise founded by a Drexel student, Evan Ehlers, and which engages Drexel students in its operations. Sharing Excess addresses food waste and food insecurity among college students and city residents.
The website URL where information about the student-run enterprises is available (optional):
Sustainable Investment and Finance
No
A brief description of the sustainable investment funds, green revolving funds or sustainable microfinance initiatives:
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The website URL where information about the sustainable investment funds, green revolving funds or sustainable microfinance initiatives is available (optional):
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Events
Yes
A brief description of the conferences, speaker series, symposia or similar events related to sustainability:
Drexel hosts a variety of events throughout the year, including: annual Earth Day Block Party; Green Infrastructure, Climate and Cities featuring lectures of green topics; film screenings; Recycling Collection Events; Clothing Donation Drives; Recyclemania and Campus Conversation Nationals; neighborhood and city cleanups. The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University's Urban Sustainability Forum also hosts monthly lectures and panel discussions. Academic departments across the university regularly host lectures and other educational events surrounding sustainability.
The website URL where information about the conferences, speaker series, symposia or similar events related to sustainability is available (optional):
Cultural Arts
No
A brief description of the cultural arts events, installations or performances related to sustainability:
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The website URL where information about the cultural arts events, installations or performances is available (optional):
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Wilderness and Outdoors Programs
Yes
A brief description of the wilderness or outdoors programs that follow Leave No Trace principles:
Drexel Weekend Warriors is a student organization that organizes outdoor trips, such as hiking or whitewater rafting, open to all Drexel undergraduates each quarter.
The website URL where information about the wilderness or outdoors programs is available (optional):
Sustainability-Related Themes
Yes
A brief description of the sustainability-related themes chosen for themed semesters, years, or first-year experiences:
The Pennoni Honors College hosts a program called the Symposium, a year-long series of interdisciplinary coursework around a common theme; themes are frequently sustainability-focused, with the most recent theme looking at waste.
The website URL where information about the sustainability-related themes is available (optional):
Sustainable Life Skills
No
A brief description of the programs through which students can learn sustainable life skills:
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The website URL where information about the sustainable life skills programs is available (optional):
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Student Employment Opportunities
Yes
A brief description of the sustainability-focused student employment opportunities offered by the institution:
The Drexel Computer Recycling Program (DCR) helps University departments guarantee data security on existing computers that have reached the end-of-life stage for departments and allows these computers to be refurbished for reuse.
There are sustainability-related co-op opportunities, such as field ecology positions with the Academy of Natural Sciences and field research positions with the Sustainable Water Research Engineering Lab in the Drexel College of Engineering.
The website URL where information about the student employment opportunities is available:
Graduation Pledge
No
A brief description of the graduation pledges:
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The website URL where information about the graduation pledges is available (optional):
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Other Programs and Initiatives
No
A brief description of the other co-curricular sustainability programs and initiatives:
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The website URL where information about other co-curricular sustainability programs and initiatives is available (optional):
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