University of South Florida (Tampa)
ER-3: Sustainability in New Student Orientation

Sustainability is prominently featured during new student orientation in several ways, including: 1) The Office of Sustainability organizes and initiates practices prominently featured during Week of Welcome (W.o.W.) activities. The Director of the Office of Sustainability and other staff of the Office are present during these events such as Resident Assistant Orientation and many other W.o.W. activities, including new student registration. 2) The Office of Sustainability distributes special brochures and flyers for becoming more sustainable campus wide. This included special "lights-out" stickers and Sustainable Living Tips throughout resident housing. 3) The Student Government distributes sustainability related materials to all first-year students during W.o.W. activities, in which all first-year students participate and which are open to all USF students. The materials include reusable shopping bags and water bottles along with sustainability related literature from the Office of Sustainability. 4) Green LLC tour - Students from the Green Living and Learning Community are given a green tour of campus. The guide, a faculty member, speaks about the development of sustainability initiatives on campus, shows examples of sustainability related projects, and has students visit the Office of Sustainability, the Center for Urban Transportation Research, and the Botanical Gardens. Overall the tour takes about 1.5 hours.