Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 73.94
Liaison Caitlin Steele
Submission Date July 21, 2023

STARS v2.2

San Francisco State University
EN-1: Student Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.72 / 4.00 caitlin Steele
Dr of Sust & Energy
Sustainability
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Part 1. Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Number of students enrolled for credit:
25,046

Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
6,000

Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
23.96

1st program

Name of the student educators program (1st program):
Sustainable Move Out Training for Residential Assistants

A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):
The Office of Sustainability Staff trains the residential Life Resident Assistants in a train-the-trainer model. The RA's are then asked to work with and teach their residents about how to move out sustainably. The Office of Sustainability also trains student volunteers who want to work at the Sustainable Move Out event.
We work with many organizations to offer a Sustainable Move Out program to all residents. We partner with Goodwill, the Women's Center, and the Foodbank to donate students unwanted items.
https://housing.sfsu.edu/move-out-guide

A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):
The Associated Students are targeting the 4,000+ on campus residents as they have a huge impact on conservation, recycling, composting and supporting sustainability initiatives.

Number of trained student educators (1st program):
75

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (1st program):
2

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

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (1st program):
150

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

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2nd program

Name of the student educators program (2nd program):
Waste Bin Ambassadors "Trash Talk"

A brief description of the student educators program (2nd program):
Associated Students' Environmental Resource Center conducts peer to peer waste bin education each fall. The program involves a team of educators standing near waste/recycling/compost receptacles to greet new students and teach them how to use our waste system. Since many of our students come from areas that don't collect compost, this serves as an introduction to composting and and introduction to sustainability programming.

A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
The Environmental Resource Center students focus on the students at the Cesar Chavez Student Union as a way to reach out to students from all areas of campus. All students are the target audience and it is the only student center on campus and where most people eat lunch.
ERC offers Zero Waste training across the campus:
How can we help SF State go Zero Waste?
Each one of us is a key players in helping our campus reach it’s Zero Waste Goal! One of the best ways to help is to know how to use our campus’ compost, recycling, and garbage bins.

Do you need help? The Environmental Resource Center is always ready to “talk trash“! We offer one-on-one or group waste management training sessions!

https://asi.sfsu.edu/erc-zero-waste-initiative

Number of trained student educators (2nd program):
10

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (2nd program):
5

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (2nd program):
1

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (2nd program):
50

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (2nd program):

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3rd program 

Name of the student educators program (3rd program):
Environmental Resource Center Gardening Classes

A brief description of the student educators program (3rd program):
As part of Associated Students, the Environmental Resource Center aims to educate our student body and campus community about gardening. The ERC students host Gardening classes to students so students can learn how to grow their own food. The training is held at the on campus garden, Sol Patch. There is a paid student position that runs all year. This is called the Sol Patch Garden Coordinator and is funded by the Associate Student fees.

A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (3rd program):
The ERC works to educate students on growing their own food and how to set up a small urban raised bed garden. All students are the target audience.

Number of trained student educators (3rd program):
1

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (3rd program):
52

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (3rd program):
10

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (3rd program):
520

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (3rd program):

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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Number of weeks, on average, the student educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
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Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per student educator (all other programs) :
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Total number of hours worked annually by 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):
720

Hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators per student served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.12

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the student sustainability educators programs is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Trash Talk and Sol Patch data provided by ERC Director, Katalynna Vang.

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