| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 74.69 |
| Liaison | Tess Esposito |
| Submission Date | Feb. 9, 2022 |
University of Dayton
EN-1: Student Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
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3.86 / 4.00 |
Katie
Schoenenberger Director of GIS Management and Environmental Sustainability Project Development College of Arts and Sciences, Facilities Management |
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Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
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Name of the student educators program (1st program):
A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):
The River Stewards engage the campus and the greater community in a dialogue about our water resources. Past activities include river paddles for both the stewards and their peers, educational outreach in local K-12 schools and on campus, project-based work. Examples of past River Stewards' successful projects include the design and implementation of our campus bike share program, a "Take Back the Tap" campaign and the development of an Outdoor Engagement Portal available to all students.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):
The River Stewards engage the campus and the greater community in a dialogue about our water resources. Past activities include river paddles for both the stewards and their peers, educational outreach in local K-12 schools and on campus, project-based work. Examples of past River Stewards' successful projects include the design and implementation of our campus bike share program, a "Take Back the Tap" campaign and the development of an Outdoor Engagement Portal available to all students.
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The sustainability student leaders program is an experiential learning and professional development program open to all UD undergraduate students from any school and major. The UD campus and community benefits with expanded capacity in the work of making our campus and community more sustainable. Our sustainability leaders benefit with greater opportunity to develop professional skills in the very diverse field of sustainability and valuable mentorship in exploring their vocation while at UD. The leaders program is structured in project teams that work to engage campus around four main areas.
Education Team
The HSI education team is led by three of our sustainability leaders who work with a group of about 15-20 student volunteers to offer a series of sustainability education events and programming for their fellow students and the broader campus and community.
Energy Team
The Campus Energy Team is led by 3-4 of our sustainability leaders and a GA supported through facilities management. This team works in collaboration with facilities management (FM) and other campus partners on projects to reduce campus energy use and educate students about energy conservation and energy justice
Food & Growing Team
The food and growing team is led by 3-4 of our sustainability leaders. The team works very closely with staff in facilities management to develop, maintain and education around projects related to all things that grow including a campus garden and native planting areas.
Zero Waste Team
The campus zero waste team is led by 3-4 of our sustainability leaders. The team supports the campus community in working towards a zero waste campus through reduction of our waste, increase in our recycling, and increase in composting of our organic waste. The team also is working towards increased student involvement in their efforts, with increased volunteer and student orgs engagement.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
All graduate and undergraduate full-time students are included in some aspects of the educator program. Undergraduate students are the primary target audience, but outreach on zero waste and dining also include graduate students as an audience.
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Hanley Sustainability Institute employs a team (3-5) graduate assistants as team leaders for education, outreach, and implementation teams. These students lead and manage outreach and education on UD's Energy GPA, Sustainability Leaders, Zero Waste and Composting teams.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (3rd program):
all students
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A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
Sustainability Activation Program volunteers (SAP)
The Sustainability Activation Program aims to educate University of Dayton campus and beyond about the importance of living sustainably. This program is focused on the three pillars of sustainability: environment, economy, society. By educating students about current sustainability-related issues and why they are happening, we are trying to foster an interest to conserve our natural resources. This program then helps students discover ways they can conserve resources in their daily life and make a commitment to be more sustainable. This program has two main branches: Flyers Go Green in-person AVIATE presentations events and virtual Consciosu Living Chats. The fall 2021 AVIATE events, facilitated by 21 SAPlings (sustainabilty volunteers), were open to all students and hosted approximately 1,600 students, with between 2 and 6 events offered each week. These events focused on topics ranging from food to clothing to how student can get involved on campus today. The Conscious Living Chats will begin in January 2022; in these chats, SAPlings meet up with individual houses of students to dive deeper into sustainability and how the students can make their house more sustainable.
Target: Students living on campus
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https://udayton.edu/artssciences/ctr/hsi/student-opportunities/udsrl/index.php
The 7,971 students served by the River Stewards Program is the number of undergraduate, full-time equivalents.
The Sustainability Activation Program reaches both undergraduate and graduate students, although it targets undergraduate students.
https://udayton.edu/artssciences/ctr/hsi/student-opportunities/udsrl/index.php
The 7,971 students served by the River Stewards Program is the number of undergraduate, full-time equivalents.
The Sustainability Activation Program reaches both undergraduate and graduate students, although it targets undergraduate students.
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