Overall Rating	Gold
Overall Score	70.33
Liaison	Neha Sood
Submission Date	March 3, 2022

STARS v2.2

Rochester Institute of Technology
EN-1: Student Educators Program

Status	Score	Responsible Party
	2.21 / 4.00	Neha Sood Director of Sustainability Office of the President

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Part 1. Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Number of students enrolled for credit:

16,254

Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:

16,254

Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:

100

1st program

Name of the student educators program (1st program):

Sustainability Ambassadors

A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):

The Sustainability Ambassadors at RIT are responsible for student outreach and campus event management while under administrative coordination with the Department of Sustainability staff. In this role, individuals primarily aid in managing the sustainability outreach and education for events and programs.
In preparation for this role, Sustainability Ambassadors attend a mandatory two-day in person and online orientation which includes the following: learning about RIT Sustainability and our goals; delving into the SDG’s and their connection to college campuses; team building; sustainability engagement; cultural awareness and dialectics; and more.

A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):

All RIT students - undergraduate and graduate, those living on campus as well as commuters. We achieve this by strategic program planning and advertising:
1) Programs are not limited to residence halls, and the majority of the programs are held in public spaces around campus, such as the Student Alumni Union, Campus Center, Sustainability Building, Quarter Mile, and Dining Halls.
2) All programs have a "campus groups" component. Campus groups is the engagement platform that RIT Student Affairs uses. All RIT students are required to use this app for event participation and attendance tracking. Sustainability Ambassadors also use this as a communication platform about sustainability initiatives and passive educational efforts.
3) Events are posted on the RIT Events calendar, and are included in RIT's "news and events weekly" newsletter that is distributed to all members of the RIT community.

Number of trained student educators (1st program):

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (1st program):

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (1st program):

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (1st program):

1,680

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (1st program):

https://www.rit.edu/sustainablecampus/team

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2nd program

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3rd program

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Additional programs

A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:

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Number of trained student educators (all other programs):

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Part 2. Educator hours per student served by a peer-to-peer educator program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators (all programs):

1,680

Hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators per student served by a peer-to-peer program:

0.10

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