Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 50.16
Liaison Dr. Jill Wicknick
Submission Date Jan. 7, 2023

STARS v2.2

University of Montevallo
EN-5: Outreach Campaign

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 4.00 / 4.00 Susan Caplow
Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies
Behavioral and Social Sciences
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Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at students and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes

Has the institution held a sustainability-related outreach campaign during the previous three years that was directed at employees and yielded measurable, positive results in advancing sustainability?:
Yes

1st campaign 

Name of the campaign:
Campus Eco-Challenge

A brief description of the campaign:
As part of Earth Month, we ran a campus Earth Month Eco-Challenge 2022 program in which students or employees could create teams to compete to be the most sustainable. See ecochallenge.org for more on the program.

A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign:
We had 31 people participate in the challenge across campus, which was less than our previous campaign, but we have plans to increase participation next year.

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2nd campaign

Name of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Sustainability Coordinator petition

A brief description of the campaign (2nd campaign):
Students in ES 250 wrote a petition and collected over 100 signatures to advocate for the hiring of a full-time sustainability coordinator at UM.

https://www.change.org/p/hire-a-sustainability-coordinator-increase-sustainable-efforts-at-um?recruiter=857756983&recruited_by_id=e618c730-13fc-11e8-8062-f921b7ac890a&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_content=cl_sharecopy_35002076_en-US%3A4

A brief description of the measured positive impact(s) of the campaign (2nd campaign):
The petition is recent, but it will be included in our request for a staff position during the next unit planning phase.

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A brief description of other sustainability-related outreach campaigns:
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