Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 52.28
Liaison Jamie Jacquart
Submission Date March 5, 2021

STARS v2.2

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
EN-1: Student Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.74 / 4.00 Jamie Jacquart
Assistant Director
Sustainability
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Part 1. Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Number of students enrolled for credit:
8,154

Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
3,028

Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
37.14

1st program

Name of the student educators program (1st program):
Green Navigators

A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):
The Green Navigators provide a variety of programs and services focused on residential students and the campus community as a whole. These include coordinating the New2U collection and Yard Sale program, Project Clean Plate in coordination with Dining Services, and the Sustainability Movie Series. They also do special outreach for programming in the residence halls on recycling, taking shorter showers and washing clothes in cold water.

Green Navigators have a two day training program before classes begin in the fall, along with weekly staff/training meetings. We train them on how to interact with other students in order to encourage behavior change, environmental impact and the reduction of waste.

A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):
The main audience are residential students. The goal is to help students understand that they have an impact on the institution's carbon footprint in how they live, work and study while at the University.

Number of trained student educators (1st program):
15

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (1st program):
28

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (1st program):
6

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (1st program):
2,520

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (1st program):

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2nd program

Name of the student educators program (2nd program):
Admissions Ambassadors

A brief description of the student educators program (2nd program):
Our Admissions Ambassadors receive training on the sustainable features of the University. This is further reinforced during their campus tours, where sustainable features are referenced along the tour.

A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
Prospective students and their families

Number of trained student educators (2nd program):
10

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (2nd program):
50

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (2nd program):
5

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (2nd program):
2,500

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (2nd program):

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3rd program 

Name of the student educators program (3rd program):
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Number of trained student educators (3rd program):
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Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (3rd program):
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Additional programs 

A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Number of trained student educators (all other programs):
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Number of weeks, on average, the student educators programs are active annually (all other programs):
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Part 2. Educator hours per student served by a peer-to-peer educator program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators (all programs):
5,020

Hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators per student served by a peer-to-peer program:
1.66

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about the student sustainability educators programs is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Jamie Jacquart

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