Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 56.93
Liaison Christina Erickson
Submission Date May 9, 2019
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STARS v2.1

Champlain College
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.90 / 2.00 Christina Erickson
Sustainability Director
Campus Planning
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Are the following students provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability?:
Yes or No
First-year students Yes
Transfer students Yes
Entering graduate students No

Percentage of all entering (i.e. new) students (including transfers and graduate students) that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability (0-100):
95

A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation (including how multiple dimensions of sustainability are addressed):
Director of Service & Sustainability Learning gives an overview at an all-student gathering, hands out re-useable water bottles to all students, shows "Sort it Out" waste reduction video. Orientation also includes a Zero Waste BBQ for new students and their families.

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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Graduate students are all online (except for ~10 MFA students); the ~40 transfer students who begin in the fall semester are invited to participate in first year orientation; a mini orientation is offered for ~20 transfer students who begin in spring semester.

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