Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 54.46
Liaison Audrey McSain
Submission Date March 30, 2018
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Lehigh University
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Katharine Targett Gross
Sustainability Officer
Office of Sustainability
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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 (i.e. new) students (including transfers and graduate students) that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability (0-100):
100

A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation (including how multiple dimensions of sustainability are addressed):

All entering students (including transfer students) have the option of attending a faculty lecture during Orientation that addressed the issue of sustainability in the business field. We also offer a 3-day pre-orientation program for undergraduates (incoming students and transfer students) focused on sustainability called SustainabLEHIGH. New undergraduate students and transfer students also have the opportunity to eat at the First Year Student Orientation picnic, which has sustainability information, recycling, and composting. There were information sessions and resource tables with sustainability information on the Monday and Thursday of Orientation for undergraduate students and transfer students. The Office of First-Year Experience posted information about the Office of Sustainability on the Guidebook App, an app that hosts the Orientation schedule open to all students to download on a smart phone. Additionally, for graduate students, there was a graduate student resource fair and game night that the Office of Sustainability participated in. Through this event, the graduate students were able to gain knowledge about the Office of Sustainability and Sustainability at Lehigh in general. The Office of Sustainability also shared electronically a sustainability one pager as well as environmental living tips with all graduate students during orientation.


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Attached is an example of an e-flyer one-pager that we use during student orientation. This is handed out to all orientation leaders to share with their groups of incoming first year students.


Attached is an example of an e-flyer one-pager that we use during student orientation. This is handed out to all orientation leaders to share with their groups of incoming first year students.

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