University of Wisconsin-Platteville
EN-3: Student Life

Each of the following groups are completely student-governed:
Health and Human Performance Club - Dedicated to health education.
Outdoor Adventure Club - Regular outdoor trips (i.e. camping, ice climbing)
Engineers without Borders- Builds sustainable engineering solutions in Ghana each year.
Biology Club - Supports biology and natural science education on campus.
Reclamation Club - Help restore native lands on campus and in broader region.
Cycling Club - Promote bicycling on campus and broader community.
Green Campus Project - Supports sustainability initiatives across campus.
Platteville Society of Environmental Engineers - Enhances knowledge of environmental issues and career opportunities for members.
Students for Peace and Justice - Create awareness through education, forum and discourse, of alternatives to violent responses to political and social problems facing the world today.
Wisconsin Association of Energy Engineers - Promotes interest in the energy field, with an emphasis on sustainable energy.

We have an organic, edible garden on campus started in the summer of 2013 and run by Green Campus Project Student Organization with support from the Office of Sustainability. Starting in 2015 we began to also plant mini-edible garden's around campus in place of traditional annual plants (in cooperation with campus grounds). Each year we hire 2-4 garden coordinators, have volunteer nights open to the public, and do campus programming to build awareness about sustainable agriculture.

We have a student run business on campus, Platteville Sunflower Oil, which grows, presses, and sells it's own organic and locally grown sunflower oil for cooking. The business has been around since 2013 and has a 7-member board of directors, all of whom must be UW-Platteville students. Sustainability places prominently in their mission statement and marketing materials.

Since 2014 Green Campus Project student organization has organized an Earth Day Carnival on campus each year. The Carnival invites student organizations from across campus to table and offer carnival games related to sustainability open to the entire campus. The event occurs on the main green in central campus and is well attended. We also have workshops that help teach students about aspects of sustainability.

Green Campus Project, in partnership with other student organizations, host movie showings on campus each year. In the past, they have shown Between Earth and Sky, An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, and Decoding the Driftless. These showings are student run and free to all students wishing to attend.

Outdoor Adventure Club regularly leads "Leave No Trace" outdoor trips. Activities include rock climbing, hiking, backpacking, slacklining, rappelling. These events are always student governed.

One residence hall, Morrow Hall, is a model sustainability hall. The student residence life assistants that advise that hall shape their regular programming around the principles of sustainable living. The work of these two student residence life assistants is very independent, and thus, we consider this program student-governed.

The Office of Sustainability hires several positions each year to promote sustainability. Typically we hire 2-5 sustainability assistants who help with a wide range of sustainability issues, 1-2 transportation assistants who promote alternative transportation on campus, and 3-4 students who help run our campus surplus program. Additionally, Green Campus Project student organization hires 2-4 students each year to manage the edible campus garden.

Engineers Without Borders travels to Ghana once or twice each year to help build some form of sustainable infrastructure (e.g. a water pump or solar heating system). WEAA works each year to do similar initiatives on campus and have helped us identify ways to improve our passive solar panels and install solar charging stations on campus. Both of these initiatives are student governed.