| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.43 |
| Liaison | Greg Maginn |
| Submission Date | June 30, 2023 |
The Ohio State University
EN-1: Student Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.75 / 4.00 |
Tom
Reeves Director of Energy Management & Enivronmental Sustainability Student Life |
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Name of the student educators program (1st program):
A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):
Wellness Ambassadors serve as a liaison between the Office of Student Life and other students on campus. Wellness Ambassadors play a vital role in supporting the mission of Student Life, which aims to promote wellness among Ohio State students and their communities. Wellness Ambassadors deliver educational presentations in a variety of settings and work together to plan, publicize, and implement events highlighting the 9 dimensions of wellness including: Emotional, Career, Social, Intellectual, Spiritual, Physical, Financial, Creative, and Environmental.
One peer-to-peer outreach activity happens at the Student Wellness Center’s livewell hut where students are queried to sort different items into categories of: recyclable or not recyclable. Upon sorting, the Wellness Ambassadors give students creative tips on ways to reuse different items, provide an information flier(s), and typically a giveaway item as well.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):
The target audience for this program is all Ohio State Students and they are engaged through booths at on-campus events, various presentations given to different organizations, and other marketing initiatives.
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Name of the student educators program (2nd program):
A brief description of the student educators program (2nd program):
In the past year, Ohio State began an aggressive campaign to reduce our front-of-house composting efforts throughout all dining locations across campus. Part of that initiative included recruiting student volunteers to serve as peer educators on what is compost, what is recycling and what is trash. The volunteers shared information in many ways—from conducting tabling, serving as “bin guards” to direct their peers at the point of disposing of trash, conducting programs for various student groups (including residential communities, student organizations, fraternities/sororities and so forth), etc. Students are incentivized to volunteer for hours by receiving prizes based on the number of hours they volunteer.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
Target audience is both student peers at campus events and dining halls as well as members of the greater ohio state community who are engaged at broader events.
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Name of the student educators program (3rd program):
A brief description of the student educators program (3rd program):
Once per week, student life student staff conduct face-to-face tabling events at different residence halls throughout the campus, where we engage students using a “spin-the-wheel” game educating students on zero waste at Ohio State. A student spins a wheel, and when the wheel stops the student guesses if the item selected is either trash, compost or recycling. For participating, students are given small prizes like stickers or candy. In addition to tabling in our residence halls, we also do two large-scale tabling events/year at the Ohio Union, where we play a similar game but instead of a wheel, we use a “Plinko-Style” board At the Ohio Union events, we give away cookies and beverages (hot chocolate in the fall, lemonade in the spring) and larger promotional items (reusable straws, bamboo serving ware, etc). Finally, we also do a tabling event similar to our residence hall programs once/semester at our Recreation and Physical Activities Center. These events also provide us an opportunity to sign students up for our composting programs for both on- and off-campus students.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (3rd program):
Fellow Ohio State students.
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A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
The First Year Experience (FYE) program provides support to new students entering Ohio State, student leaders engage with incomming students by leading FYE initiatives and events. Students take place in succession series events where topics such as dorm composting, bike safety, emotional wellbeing, and other aspects of the 10 dimensions of wellness.
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