Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 54.23
Liaison Jeff Jeremiason
Submission Date Nov. 30, 2021

STARS v2.2

Gustavus Adolphus College
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.96 / 2.00 Kari Wallin
Sustainability Manager
Facilities/Johnson Center for Environmental Innovation
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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 No
Entering graduate students N/A - institution does not have graduate students

Percentage of all entering students that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability:
98.22

A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation :

Yes, first year students participate in a sustainability lunch during orientation, in which their orientation small group leader (a 2nd, 3rd or 4th year student) leads discussions around composting and reducing waste on campus, participating in sustainability events, energy saving measures in their halls, and other sustainability topics, including the broader dimensions of sustainability (social and economic). This also demonstrates how sustainability works in the Cafeteria (point out what’s compostable, how to reduce food waste, etc) during the lunch. There are slides with campus sustainability facts running on large screens during the lunch as well.

There is also an online sustainability training module that all incoming students were sent and asked to complete before arriving on campus, however it is not mandatory.


Website URL where information about sustainability in student orientation is available:
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