| Overall Rating | Silver |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 51.51 |
| Liaison | Kirk Hemphill |
| Submission Date | Feb. 12, 2024 |
Florida Institute of Technology
EN-1: Student Educators Program
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
2.08 / 4.00 |
Ken
Lindeman Professor, Sustainability Studies Ocean Engineering & Marine Sciences |
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):
This student organization works to bring best practices in sustainability to the Florida Tech campus and community. The Student Organization for Sustainability Action, SOSA has recurring biweekly meetings and several events that educate students in a peer to peer program that involves the campus community.
- The officers of SOSA train each other and educate dozens to hundreds of students across events like Fall and Spring Earth Week celebrations, campus clean-ups, Student organization fairs, and other meetings that take place biweekly/monthly.
- These meetings are conducted by students and allow other students to advance their sustainability knowledge and leadership. The organization manages projects and events on- and off-campus, many tied to sustainability initiatives that past student leaders have taught to new student leaders through annual SOSA Officer meetings. The officers of SOSA are trained through previous executive board members, Student Involvement staff, and by their faculty advisor.
- SOSA receives funding through the Student Government Association for their events.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (1st program):
The target audience of SOSA events is the campus student body and, in some instances, staff and faculty as well, with events focusing on the campus and community.
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Civic Engagement Work studies, under the Office of Student Life work to organize and manage community service activities to be completed by students that benefit the campus community. Examples of events include the Big Say of Service, where the Civic Engagement FWS employees lead Freshman through a large community service event.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (2nd program):
The Office of Student Life is engaged in several campus activates, so a large portion of the target audience is the student body, and also some staff and faculty.
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A brief description of the student educators program (3rd program):
The GreenPawPrint social media portals include an Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn profiles that serve as the institutions main sustainability outlet for the entire campus community. The pages are run by four students who are all funded by Federal Work Study. They are trained in the type of material is best suited for the platforms by their advisor but are mostly self taught in regards to how to best to share this advisor and frequently release polls on their Instagram Page as to how they can revise the content they share. The content they post relates mostly to sharing upcoming Sustainability events on campus as well as sustainability related research. They also focus on sharing sustainability volunteering, internship, and job opportunities.
A brief description of the student educators program’s target audience (3rd program):
The Instagram and LinkedIn profile are especially targeted towards students. With the primary focus being on-campus events and broader sustainability news on the Instagram, and a stronger focus on internship and job opportunities on the LinkedIn, though there is heavy outreach on all platforms. The Facebook page does consider students as a prominent and important audience, but the content posted there is meant to appeal to a larger off-campus audience as well.
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Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
- The data for this credit is from Academic Year 2022-23, Melbourne campus, not online. We did not use PRE-5 data which is for Calendar Year 2022 for the "Number of students enrolled for credit". All of the data in this credit, for Part 1 (the Three Programs) and Part 2, is from AY 2022-23.
- Data was sourced from the Office of Institutional Research, the Office of Student Life (Abby Zabrodsky and Tony Trimpe), and the Academic Sustainability Program. Information processed by Christian Foster.
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