Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 73.28
Liaison Katie Maynard
Submission Date Nov. 8, 2016
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STARS v2.1

University of California, Santa Barbara
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.35 / 2.00 Katie Maynard
Sustainability Coordinator
Geography & 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 No
Entering graduate students No

Percentage of all entering (i.e. new) students (including transfers and graduate students) that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability (0-100):
67.30

A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation (including how multiple dimensions of sustainability are addressed):
Incoming freshmen have the opportunity to participate in a well-publicized sustainability presentation. The presentation (approx. 40 min) includes information about on-campus organizations that deal with sustainability, efforts at UCSB related to sustainability, sustainability related courses, and internship and research opportunities related to sustainability.

Optional Fields 

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
The above data is taken from the 2014-15 school year. The numerator is the total number of incoming freshmen undergraduates (excluding international students) and the denominator is the total number of incoming students (including freshmen, transfer, graduate, and international students). We currently do not have programs that specifically reach transfer students, graduate students, or international students.

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