Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 63.24
Liaison Victoria Ho
Submission Date Feb. 8, 2024

STARS v2.2

OCAD University
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 2.00 Victoria Ho
Advisor, Strategic Sustainability
Office of Diversity, Equity & Sustainability Initiatives
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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 Yes

Percentage of all entering students that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability:
100

A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation :
Sustainability orientation is offered in-person as well as online live and recorded. Students are introduced to foundational sustainability concepts (e.g. UNSDGs, decolonial sustainability frameworks, responsibilities within Dish With One Spoon treaty territory) as well as to OCAD U-specific initiatives, events, and paid student opportunities.

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Website URL where information about sustainability in student orientation is available:
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