| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 54.15 |
| Liaison | Leslie North |
| Submission Date | March 3, 2017 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Western Kentucky University
EN-2: Student Orientation
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
|---|---|---|
|
0.94 / 2.00 |
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 | No |
| Entering graduate students | No |
Percentage of all entering (i.e. new) students (including transfers and graduate students) that are provided an opportunity to participate in orientation activities and programming that prominently include sustainability (0-100):
A brief description of how sustainability is included prominently in new student orientation (including how multiple dimensions of sustainability are addressed):
For first-year students, WKU offers M.A.S.T.E.R. Plan, WKU's five day extended orientation program for first year residential students. M.A.S.T.E.R. Plan provides new students with the opportunity to move to campus a week early--before upperclassmen arrive, before classes begin--to get acclimated to campus, find out where their classes are located, and begin building social support networks. The program strives to assist new students in making a successful academic, as well as social, transition from home and high school to college at WKU, integrating aspects of social and environmental sustainability through peer-to-peer and group workshops on physical and mental well-being in school, a campus-wide community volunteer day -- Big Red's Blitz -- as well as a Zero Waste Cookout demonstrating waste diversion tactics at the end of the program.
The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
Additional documentation to support the submission:
Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
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