Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 46.06
Liaison Kristina Hope
Submission Date Dec. 18, 2020

STARS v2.2

Knox College
EN-1: Student Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.90 / 4.00 Deborah Steinberg
Director of Campus Sustainability Initiatives
Office of Sustainability
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Number of students enrolled for credit:
1,333

Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
1,078

Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
80.87

Name of the student educators program (1st program):
Residential Assistants

A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):

Residential Assistants (RAs) serve as peer counselors for students in their residential suite. Among their duties, these student educators are tasked with disseminating and maintaining awareness of campus sustainability practices and providing updates when new information is available, or reminders are deemed necessary. They also assist the Office of Sustainability each year with new student orientation. RAs attend a week-long training before the academic year begins, of which there is a special sustainability session. They have weekly meetings throughout the academic year, and if necessary, a meeting can be dedicated to sustainability updates. One example of an outreach activity was a dorm decoration contest where the theme was sustainability. Residents were encouraged to use reused and repurposed items as decorations. RAs used this contest to discuss zero waste.


A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):

All campus residents (~80% of students) are served by a RA.


Number of trained student educators (1st program):
45

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (1st program):
30

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (1st program):
5

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (1st program):
150

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (1st program):
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Name of the student educators program (3rd program):
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A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Number of trained student educators (all other programs):
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Number of weeks, on average, the student educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
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Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (all other programs):
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Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators (all programs):
150

Hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators per student served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.14

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