Overall Rating Silver
Overall Score 54.81
Liaison Jennifer McLaughlin
Submission Date May 26, 2023

STARS v2.2

South Dakota State University
EN-2: Student Orientation

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 1.94 / 2.00 Jennifer McLaughlin
Sustainability Intern
Facilities and Services
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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 students that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability:
96.95

A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation :
FY20
New Student Orientation and Transfer Student Orientation: The Sustainability Specialist hosted a booth at the resource fair.

FY21
New Student and Transfer Student Orientation were moved completely online due to COVID-19. Sustainability was included in the list of resources and offered examples of how SDSU is sustainable as well as tips for how students can practice sustainability while at SDSU. These sessions were also available to SP2021 admits because they were online (usually this is no sustainability in these sessions.)

FY22
New Student and Transfer Student Orientation for FA2021 admits were moved completely online due to COVID-19. Sustainability was included in the list of resources and offered examples of how SDSU is sustainable as well as tips for how students can practice sustainability while at SDSU. These sessions were also available to SP2022 admits even though those sessions were in person.

Optional Fields 

Website URL where information about sustainability in student orientation is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
There is an online graduate student orientation that is optional. There is no information available for how many students attended the orientation, so graduate student numbers are not included above.

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