Hope College
EN-1: Student Educators Program

HAS is a group of passionate student representatives making an organized and effective effort to improve sustainability within Hope's student life. This is a paid position, under the advisory of the Green Team, and offers an opportunity to engage their peers about sustainability topics such as (but not limited to) recycling, energy and water conservation, environmental justice, and food through events, outreach, social media, surveys, informational tables, and classroom presentations.
Our HAS interns have contact with a lot of different peer groups on campus through partnerships with departments like: dining services, library, bookstore, student life, facilities, student congress, greek life, new student orientation, athletics, and various academic programs so it would be hard to imagine that there would be many students on campus that have not been served during some type of contact with our Hope Advocates for Sustainability.

A few examples of our student educators are: an intern who is focused on reaching students in the residential halls, an intern focused on Hope College owned houses/apartments, two interns focused on waste reduction actvities, an intern focused on environmental justice education, and an intern focused on student transportation.

Before the semester starts we host a day-long training event for the HAS interns and they meet weekly with the Director for the Office of Sustainability to discuss project ideas to work on over the academic year.

Campus community - students are their primary audience and then faculty/staff are secondary.

Step2Success contacts incoming freshmen from diverse backgrounds and continues during the first semester to engage with them to connect them to programs, student groups and services at Hope College.
The S2S Coordinators are working in the fall semester as group mentors to help the incoming freshmen find community and resources at Hope College.
During the summer they work for 40 hours a week and receive training on DEI to help the freshmen transition to college. Hope College trains the S2S coordinators on talking to and networking with the freshmen students. The Coordinators learn the resources that Hope College offers. They develop the S2S program and events.
Jevon Willis, Director, and Margo Walters, the Assistant Director, directs and administers the S2S coordinators throughout the summer and academic year. S2S programing and costs are paid for from the CDI budget.

The CDI Summer Program Coordinators work in coordinating the Step2Success (S2S) Pre-Orientation Program, developing the S2S mentoring program and diversity training resources.
Responsibilities include:
• Recruit student volunteers to be part of the S2S Welcome Crew
• Assist in the planning of a training session to prepare student volunteers for their leadership roles and expectations during S2S
• Attend scheduled meetings to give updates on S2S
• Establish relationships with incoming students of color via phone, email, social media, etc. to invite them and keep them updated on information about S2S Pre-Orientation and the Center for Diversity and Inclusion
• Serve as point of contact for volunteers, new students and parents before and during orientation
• Assist in the orchestration of move-in day and registration for new students and families
• Developing team building activities for students (beach outing, Captain Sundaes, games, etc.)
• Assist in the vision and planning for S2S mentoring program
• Conduct research and develop diversity training resources
• Familiarity with setting up and working with video platforms like Zoom and Google Meets.
• Familiarity with video production and editing for social media content generation

There are 43 volunteers who work 30-hours for 1 week during the summer and there are 2 paid S2S Summer Program Coordinators who work 40 hours for 15 weeks during the summer and then drop to 6 hours for the next 15 weeks during the fall semester.

Incoming freshmen from diverse backgrounds.

--Students Teaching and Empowering Peers (STEP) is comprised of Hope College students that wish to educate and inform other students about forms of interpersonal violence (i.e. sexual assault, violence in relationships, harassment, and stalking), empower those impacted by interpersonal violence to seek resources and support, and to encourage members of the campus to be active bystanders. Additional information can be found on our website.
https://hope.edu/offices/title-ix/prevention-education/step.html

--FACES - Fostering a Community of Excellence in Science
FACES is a program that works to ease the transition process of underrepresented first-year students at Hope.
FACES focuses on students interested in the Natural & Applied Sciences Division and helps underrepresented first-year students:
Transition to life in college
Make connections to the Natural & Applied Science Division, Hope College and the Holland area
Gain information about careers, study skills and services available at Hope
https://hope.edu/academics/faces/

--Our MEN ambassadors reach out to male students from diverse backgrounds on campus to invite them to the community. This could look like a camping trip or watching the world cup or just eating together. Male Hope College students from a diverse background (students of color, LGBTQ+, religious groups, international students, etc…)