| Overall Rating | Bronze - expired |
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| Overall Score | 38.77 |
| Liaison | Lori Chance |
| Submission Date | Feb. 22, 2021 |
Messiah University
EN-5: Outreach Campaign
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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2.00 / 4.00 |
Lori
Chance Sustainability Program Coordinator Sustainability Office |
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Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at students and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes
Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at employees and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
No
1st campaign
Recyclemania
A brief description of the campaign:
Recyclemania is a competition/campaign that encourages better waste practices among college and university students. It is an 8 week campaign that encourages students to be aware of the waste stream on campus and how they can contribute to using less waste. During this campaign, our office provided programming to increase education centered around waste. This programming included making reusable bags from t-shirts, swap and mend, making valentine's cards from reusable items, waste games and guiding students through learning about their ecological foot print
https://www.messiah.edu/homepage/2853/waste
https://www.messiah.edu/homepage/2853/waste
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign:
We noted that in two consecutive years of our recycelemania campaign that the organics waste increased after our push to utilize the system (that is, more students utilized our Somat machine in our main dining hall) than prior to the campaign.
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2nd campaign
Food Waste Reduction in Campus Dining
A brief description of the campaign (2nd campaign):
In a Community Psychology class, students chose to lead an initiative to reduce food waste in the main campus dining hall. They did so by collecting a baseline over the course of a couple of weeks to measure the amount of food an average student leaves on their plate after a meal. Students designed an intervention phase where they hung posters and fliers at strategic locations in order to encourage students to focus on taking only the amount of food that they could consume in that sitting.
A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Following the intervention, students spent the remainder of the semester collecting data using the same methods and schedule as for the base line. Data was collected by multiple students, but interrater reliability was checked periodically throughout research.
Optional Fields
Messiah's Sustainable Living Certification is an educational way to learn more about sustainable living at Messiah. Students take a survey, learn about sustainable practices, and challenge themselves and their friends to live a little more environmentally and socially conscious lives. The survey is available on our website and students are encouraged to complete the survey and learn more about sustainable living. Students received a certificate for their participation.
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