Overall Rating Gold
Overall Score 73.84
Liaison Andrew Horning
Submission Date Dec. 19, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Michigan
EN-1: Student Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.23 / 4.00 Andrew Horning
Managing Director
Graham Sustainability Institute
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Number of students enrolled for credit:
50,278

Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
50,278

Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
100

Name of the student educators program (1st program):
Planet Blue Student Leaders

A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):

Planet Blue Student Leaders (PBSLs) work in Student Life as part-time peer educators to promote sustainable living behaviors on campus. Throughout the year, PBSLs participate in weekly cohort-based dialogues and workshops to develop leadership skills, and design and implement year-long sustainable behavior change campaigns. You can learn more about what the PBSLs are working on by checking out their guest posts on the Planet Blue Ambassador blog and tuning in to The PBSL Podcast, a bi-weekly conversation about all things student sustainability.
2020-21 Projects:
- Water bottle beauty pageant: a campaign to express yourself and reduce single-use plastic consumption through competitive water bottle decorating
- Mythbusting recycling: a campaign to reduce recycling contamination in off-campus housing
- Turn it down one degree: a campaign to save money and energy in student housing
- Second-hand when you can: a campaign to reduce environmental harm from fast fashion
Past projects include:
- Carbon Neutrality Trivia Night
- WasteLESS Dinner and Panel Discussion: a meal and community conversation about food waste
- Zero Waste Convocation
- UMove-Out: organized an off-campus move-out waste reduction project that provided drop-off locations for students to donate nearly 600 goods to the Goodwill Industries of Greater Detroit
- Support campus-wide sustainability efforts like Earthfest.
- Energy Scavenger Hunt: piloted an interactive energy efficiency audit at Pierpont Commons


A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):

All university students


Number of trained student educators (1st program):
18

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (1st program):
40

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (1st program):
8

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (1st program):
5,760

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A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators (all programs):
5,760

Hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators per student served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.11

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