Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 58.49
Liaison Richard Johnson
Submission Date Nov. 11, 2014
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STARS v2.0

Rice University
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00
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The percentage of entering students that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability:
100

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A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation:
The orientation book distributed to all incoming first year students during the summer of 2014 for the fall 2014 semester contains a two-page feature on Sustainability at Rice. The feature includes a description of Rice’s student environmental organizations, academic and administrative centers devoted to sustainability, and a 7-point series of tips for living green at Rice. To reduce the amount of single-use plastic bottle waste, new students are also provided with their own reusable water bottles.

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The website URL where information about sustainability in student orientation is available:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
A pdf of the Sustainability at Rice feature in the orientation guide is available upon request to sustainability@rice.edu.

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