| Overall Rating | Gold - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 74.96 |
| Liaison | Megan Butler |
| Submission Date | Jan. 19, 2021 |
Macalester College
EN-1: Student Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.03 / 4.00 |
Christie
Manning Director of Sustainability Sustainability Office |
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Name of the student educators program (1st program):
A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):
The Sustainability Student Network is composed of student workers in departments all across campus who are either hired specifically to work on sustainability projects or spend some of their allotted hours to work on sustainability projects in their department. All students are served either directly or indirectly by the students' programs. In the beginning of the semester the student workers gather for a training session to spend time reviewing each others' positions and personalities, brainstorming potential project ideas, learning how to interact with the professional staff to create institutional change, and how to perform effective outreach campaigns. The network meets every 2 weeks during the year for additional support and training.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):
The target audience of the student educators program is the student body.
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This student educators program is a waste sorting training conducted in residence halls and offered to departments. The purpose of the program is to raise awareness of both recycling procedures and the Macalester community's broader commitment to environmental sustainability and justice. With a new curriculum based in environmental justice, the trainers will be having more discussions with first-year students about the impacts of our waste on communities of color and low-income communities. Facilitators will be trained during a workshop focused on facilitator skills and presentation content. After being trained, the student educators will meet with groups of first-year students for roughly 1 hour for peer-to-peer education and discussion-based activities. Dirty Trainers present to students on why and how Macalester chooses to sort waste, providing information on what items belong in compost, recycling, trash, or specialty waste bins. Following the presentation, the first-year students play games to test their knowledge.
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The target audience of this program is first year students, along with faculty & staff if a department requests a training.
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