Overall Rating Silver - expired
Overall Score 47.51
Liaison Mike Evans
Submission Date Feb. 2, 2016
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STARS v2.0

Williams College
EN-1: Student Educators Program

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 0.68 / 4.00 Amy Johns
Director
Zilkha Center for Environmental Initiatives
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Does the institution coordinate one or more ongoing student, peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education programs that meet the criteria for this credit?:
Yes

Number of degree-seeking students enrolled at the institution:
2,068

Name of the student educators program (1st program):
EcoAdvisors

Number of students served (i.e. directly targeted) by the program (1st program):
350

A brief description of the program, including examples of peer-to-peer outreach activities (1st program):

The EcoAdvisors are a combination of learning and projects.
The Eco-Advisors, are action-oriented student change agents promoting and educating about environmentally and socially sustainable lifestyles. They strive to connect campus life to global resource issues by advocating for a sustainable future at Williams and beyond. By supporting and collaborating with campus groups, they instigate campus-wide culture shift through student initiatives. They are an open conduit between the student body, like-minded student groups, the Zilkha Center, and the college administration.

Specific projects they have taken on include last year's Trashion Show and Climate Survey.


A brief description of how the student educators are selected (1st program):

recruit broadly across campus
students apply
Zilkha Center selects 10


A brief description of the formal training that the student educators receive (1st program):

Zilkha Center staff lead weekly readings/discussions.


A brief description of the financial or other support the institution provides to the program (1st program):

students are paid
program is staffed by Zilkha Center staff


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Name of the student educators program (3rd program):
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Name(s) of the student educator program(s) (all other programs):
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Number of students served (i.e. directly targeted) by all other student educator programs:
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Total number of hours student educators are engaged in peer-to-peer sustainability outreach and education activities annually:
600

The website URL for the peer-to-peer student outreach and education program(s):
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