Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 65.57
Liaison Derek Nichols
Submission Date Sept. 16, 2015
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University at Buffalo
AC-5: Immersive Experience

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Rachel DiDomizio
Student Activities Associate
Student Life
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Does the institution offer at least one immersive, sustainability-focused educational study program that meets the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

A brief description of the sustainability-focused immersive program(s) offered by the institution:

The Office of Student Engagement in partnership with the UB Sustainability office has led an alternative winter break trip since to 2012 to the Louisiana Bayou to complete ecological restoration projects throughout the region. Students learned about the social, economic, and cultural issues facing the Bayou first hand. The trip has been considered an overwhelming success--both in the Bayou and the change experienced by the students that attended--has resulted in an expansion of the program to include a second sustainability focused alternative winter break trip to Monteverde, Costa Rica in January 2016.


The website URL where information about the immersive program(s) is available:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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