Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 61.13
Liaison Elizabeth Drake
Submission Date March 6, 2020

STARS v2.2

Swarthmore College
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Melissa Tier
Sustainability Program Manager
Office of Sustainability
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Are the following students provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability?:
Yes or No
First-year students Yes
Transfer students Yes
Entering graduate students N/A - institution does not have graduate students

Percentage of all entering students that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability:
100

A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation :

Sustainability (and more specifically, zero waste & environmental justice) is a major theme of New Student Orientation, which is programming offered to both first-year and transfer students. There are multiple events throughout the almost full week of Orientation, but the very first night has a required evening session dedicated to a sustainability talk & exercises.


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The attached slide deck was used for a session titled "Working Together Toward Swarthmore's Sustainable Community" during the 2019 new student orientation.


The attached slide deck was used for a session titled "Working Together Toward Swarthmore's Sustainable Community" during the 2019 new student orientation.

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