Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 59.82
Liaison Joanne Wong
Submission Date Feb. 10, 2021

STARS v2.2

Mills College
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Joanne Wong
Sustainability Coordinator
Campus Facilities
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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 students that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability:
100

A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation :
While Orientation has been been modified over the years, Mills Sustainability has consistently provided sustainability resources, education and opportunities every year. The Sustainability Coordinator hosts a presentation to all incoming students, followed by Q&A, for sustainability resources on campus, highlighting waste reduction, water conservation, climate action, environmental justice, alternative transportation options, ecology and nature, and more. The presentation includes a Mills-centered zero waste video, ending with a quiz and prize incentives. Orientation flyers inform and connect students with the on-campus and online sustainability resources. Spring orientation is a smaller effort, but similar orientation materials as shared in the fall are provided.

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