| Overall Rating | Gold |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 66.84 |
| Liaison | Stephanie Del Rosario |
| Submission Date | May 26, 2022 |
California State University, Fullerton
EN-1: Student Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.06 / 4.00 |
Stephanie
Del Rosario Sustainability Analyst Physical Plant |
Number of students enrolled for credit:
Total number of students served by a peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education program:
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Name of the student educators program (1st program):
A brief description of the student educators program (1st program):
The U-ACRE Project is a collaboration between Cal State Fullerton, Santa Ana College, Fullerton College, and UC Santa Barbara. The project was established in 2011 by Sara Johnson, Professor of Anthropology at Cal State Fullerton, and has been continually funded by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hispanic Serving Institutions Education Grants program as well as other sources.
U-ACRE uses urban agriculture as a lens to understand complex issues facing our community, including food and housing insecurity, nutritional sufficiency, environmental justice, and sustainable development. 15 students receive stipends. These students utilize their training in a peer mentoring education and mentoring program with service-learning students from a number of classes, ranging from 100- tot 300-level.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):
U-ACRE uses urban agriculture as a lens to understand complex issues facing our community, including food and housing insecurity, nutritional sufficiency, environmental justice, and sustainable development. We do this by engaging our students in community-based research, where our partners take a major role in identifying specific problems, and actively contribute to the research design. This approach has been shown to benefit communities and other participants through being agents of change, and it has important benefits to our U-ACRE students.
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A brief description of the student educators program (2nd program):
CSUF Capital Programs & Facilities Management Office of Sustainability Student Assistants are responsible for various duties that include researching and coordinating sustainability projects that support campus goals. Student assistants are introduced to the department through orientation and are mentored and trained by Office of Sustainability staff on sustainability topics in energy & utilities, water conservation, waste & recycling, and campus fleet. Students help organize sustainability events that target the whole CSUF student population. Some events include: recycling/food waste education, green career panels, student sustainability research, Titan Clean Air Day and more.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
The education and outreach is targeted to all CSUF students through events, social media, and tabling. Due to COVID-19, all event programming was moved to an online format.
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Name of the student educators program (3rd program):
A brief description of the student educators program (3rd program):
Fresh Air Advocates (FAA) is a student-led program created to educate students and faculty members regarding Executive Order 1108 through peer enforcement. Executive Order 1108 cultivates a healthy environment for all faculty, staff, students, and community members through its smoke and tobacco free policy. This policy promotes individual’s freedom to learn, teach, and engage in intellectual endeavors.
The Fresh Air Advocates collect data through surveys to understand students’ perception of smoking and vaping on campus. This study will help develop resources to promote a smoke-free campus.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (3rd program):
The target audience is every students at CSU Fullerton. A big portion of their ongoing projects consist of:
1) Campus walks to accomplish the following:
-Educating people smoking on campus
-Identifying locations on campus that need new signage
-Promote the program in general
-Pick-up lingering cigarette butts
2) Maintain the intern program, which includes:
-Training and mentoring the interns
-Creating/sending out flyers campus-wide to get a new group of interns every semester
3) Researching smoking trends on campus
-Data are gathered during campus walks
-A big research study was done a couple of years ago with the FAA’S and a professor in the Public Health department. Data from that study are still referenced and new research questions/stats are looked at.
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A brief description of all other student peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs:
Orange County Association of Environmental Professionals
The Association of Environmental Professionals (AEP) Chapter provides outreach and services to university studies within its boundaries. The local campus group supports students in career growth in the environmental field. OCAEP offers professional development through various programs throughout the year as well as networking opportunities with students and professionals in the OCAEP member network. The Orange County Association of Environmental Professionals is open to all students at CSUF. Sustainability outreach is targeted through tabling, social media, and class presentations.
https://www.instagram.com/ocaep_csuf/
TitanWell
TitanWell is responsible for the promotion of healthy choices and behaviors amongst the diverse Titan community. Through individual counseling, group presentations, outreach events, and peer-to-peer education, they support the health of all students. TitanWell employs and trains Cal State Fullerton students to become Certified Peer Health Educators through NASPA’s BACCHUS initiative. The Peer Health Educators (PHEs) are able to work on various teams within the department, including the TitanWell Hut, AMOD Squad, and Nutrition Advocates. TitanWell includes programming related to sustainability such as the TitanWell Hut, Alcohol, Marijuana, and Other Drug (AMOD) Squad, and Nutrition Advocates.
https://www.fullerton.edu/titanwell/
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