Overall Rating Bronze
Overall Score 26.82
Liaison Juan Martinez
Submission Date June 6, 2022

STARS v2.2

University of Houston - Downtown
EN-1: Student Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.03 / 4.00 Juan Martinez
Sustainability Coordinator
Department of Natural Sciences
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Part 1. Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer, sustainability educators program

Number of students enrolled for credit:
14,640

Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
14,640

Percentage of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
100

1st program

Name of the student educators program (1st program):
Eco-Reps

A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):
Eco-Reps is a group of students working in collaboration with the Center for Urban Agriculture & Sustainability. These students promote sustainable behavior on campus as well as implement green initiatives. Eco-Reps reach out to their fellow students, faculty, and staff in order to collaborate on projects, green initiatives, and raise awareness about sustainability. Eco-Reps are exposed to sustainable ideas and initiatives on a weekly basis where they then spread that information to our campus community.

A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):
The targeted audience for our Eco-Reps is the campus community. This includes faculty, staff, and students. Our Eco-Reps are expected to talk with the campus community to spread knowledge on sustainability. For this we have them table at high volume locations on campus. They also give presentations that are open to the entire student body virtually and in person.

Number of trained student educators (1st program):
14

Number of weeks the student educators program is active annually (1st program):
44

Average or expected number of hours worked weekly per trained student educator (1st program):
1

Total number of hours worked annually by trained student educators (1st program):
184

Website URL where information about the student educators program is available (1st program):

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2nd program

Name of the student educators program (2nd program):
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3rd program 

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Additional programs 

A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
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Number of trained student educators (all other programs):
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Part 2. Educator hours per student served by a peer-to-peer educator program

Grand total number of hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators (all programs):
184

Hours worked annually by trained student sustainability educators per student served by a peer-to-peer program:
0.01

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