Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.14
Liaison Alexis Reyes
Submission Date June 3, 2011
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STARS v1.1

Pomona College
ER-T2-7: Outdoors Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.25 / 0.25 Ginny Routhe
Director
Sustainability Integration Office
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Does the institution have a wilderness or outdoors program that organizes hiking, backpacking, kayaking, or other outings for students and follows Leave No Trace principles?:
Yes

A brief description of the program:

Pomona's Outdoor Education Center is one of the nation's premier outdoor education programs and provides a broad array of services, equipment, and other support for outdoor education. It's mission is to provide the Pomona College community with educational, recreational, and social opportunities that focus on local communities and global environments. Using the outdoors as a classroom, its programs strive to offer co-curricular outdoor experiences that develop leadership skills and promote responsibility, while maintaining balance between personal, professional, and academic pursuits. The OEC houses two of the College's long-standing outdoor programs - On the Loose, and Orientation Adventure. On the Loose is the outdoors club of the Claremont Colleges and dispatches student-led trips to destinations across California and the Southwestern states. OTLers backpack, climb, car-camp, surf, bike, and more. OTL offers advice to those who are lost, cars to those who need transportation, and a wide-ranging assortment of gear to all students – all for free. OTL also provides extensive subsidies for trips. OTL teaches "leave no trace" principles and instructs its leaders how to reduce the environmental impact of trips. Orientation Adventure is an education-based outdoor program for all incoming first-year students, taking new students into natural areas across the Southwest to learn about Leave No Trace, sustainability, outdoors skills, community-building, and more.


The website URL where information about the program is available:
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