Indiana University Bloomington
EN-2: Student Orientation

Sustainability concepts are incorporated into the orientation in several ways, however, none of these can be said to be prominently included. The Office of Sustainability is one of the two dozen campus resources available at the First Year Experience Resource Fair, held during registration for incoming students. Student organized "recycling blitzes" held in the dining halls during move-in week and the first week of classes help students learn how to recycle at IU and expose reuse and recycling as normative on campus. Most prominently, although not formally a part of Orientation, the College and Arts and Sciences' Fall Themester enables students, faculty, staff, and community members to explore a single theme together, though coursework, events, films, and more. Selected themes often relate to sustainability, including the first Themester in 2010, the focus of which was Sustainability. More recently, Themester 2014 explored Food, with a number of events relating to sustainable food and food systems. The 2015 Themester explores Work: The Nature of Labor on a Changing Planet, that is, what work has been, what it is becoming, and how it transforms our relationships to nature, technology, and justice. Themester 2016 will explore concepts relating to Beauty.