Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 51.51
Liaison Kirk Hemphill
Submission Date Feb. 12, 2024

STARS v2.2

Florida Institute of Technology
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Ken Lindeman
Professor, Sustainability Studies
Ocean Engineering & Marine Sciences
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Are the following students provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability?:
Yes or No
First-year students Yes
Transfer students Yes
Entering graduate students Yes

Percentage of all entering students that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability:
100

A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation :
The following actions were taken to ensure that all students were exposed to sustainability concepts and actions during orientation for AY 22-23:
- An orientation guide was provided to all incoming students. This guide consists of, among other things, a list of resources important to incoming student, including a link to the campus Sustainability Webpage.
- The Florida Tech Academic Program hosted two presentations on Sustainability Opportunities Throughout Florida Tech as an orientation option for incoming students. The description of the presentation was "Learn from students and faculty about many opportunities to increase campus sustainability while having fun and building your resume”.
- The Florida Tech Sustainability Academic Program had a booth at the large Student-Life Fair, where upperclassmen explained and passed out materials related to sustainability at Florida Tech.
- The large format digital LED display outside the Denius Student Center had a slide containing both 1-story tall message with a link to the Florida Tech Sustainability Webpage, as well as the Florida Tech Sustainability Instagram handle.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about sustainability in student orientation is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Academic Year 2022-23.
Data sourced from the Student Life office (Abby Zabrodsky, Tony Trimpe, and Cat Nanney), the Student Orientation Team, and the Academic Sustainability Program. Information processed by Christian Foster and April-May Sullins, Academic Sustainability Program.

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