Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 60.56
Liaison Mari Acob-Nash
Submission Date Oct. 30, 2021

STARS v2.2

North Seattle College
AC-5: Immersive Experience

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Adam Maurer
District Sustainability Coordinator
Finance and Ops
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Does the institution offer at least one immersive, sustainability-focused educational study program that is one week or more in length?:
Yes

A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s) offered by the institution:
Seattle Colleges promotes sustainability in its international outreach efforts through its annual Global Impact programs in countries such as Tanzania, Peru, Vietnam and India. In addition to providing health care outreach, participants are actively involved in infrastructure projects that promote community health and which are green in nature: installing composting toilets and water filters; building efficient stoves in the homes of villagers currently heating and cooking over open fires; establishing organic farming plots for orphanages and garden plots and worm bins for village homes.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the institution’s immersive education programs is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Global Impact is currently inactive due to COVID-19 limited operations.

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