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Co-Curriculum
December 2014
Selected Activities and Accomplishments Related to Campus Sustainability Activating Students
Annual Events
30+ student groups
Sustainability Awareness Week
Over 9,000 participants and 50+ events on 4 campuses
65-100 Campus Sustainability Volunteers
2-4 recent graduates
developing community, capacity and knowledge through their work.
hired annually to contract terms with the Office of Sustainability
10 in residences
3-6 student interns
Student Sustainability Summit Brings community leaders to campus to teach and mentor Alberta students
Sustainability Speaker Series 12 world-renowned leaders
working annually with the Office of Sustainability
delivered presentations to 3,000+ people. Since 2011
Earth Hour 2014
10+ UAlberta Ambassadors
1,183 Earth Hour pledges 396 lights switched
deliver Sustainability Campus Tours
off in flash mob 25,600 kWh saved in Lister residences
Green Spaces
Recognising students for
integrating sustainability into their work and living spaces
37 residence dorms
28 student-run
& apartments certified Peer-to-Peer Programs • sustainEXCHANGE • Bike Library • Green Wing in Schäffer Hall • Reusable Dish Program
events certified
Orientation 2014 2,715 new students engaged 1,050 learned about composting 154 One Simple Act on Campus commitments
Funding Green Grants
• $59,453
awarded to 48 recipients since 2010
Sustainability Enhancement Fund
• $261,849
awarded to 10 projects since 2011
Communications Outreach
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Goal 1. Co-Curriculum
Inspire students, faculty, and staff to engage in sustainability-oriented activities that develop leadership, foster social and moral responsibility, and contribute to the further enhancement of our society and its institutions.
Status Strategy A. Explore opportunities to involve community experts in sustainability as teachers and mentors in courses and programs. B. Enable students to become more involved in sustainability by offering community service learning, co-curricular activities, and access to a sustainability fund. C. Facilitate campus-wide dialogue on sustainability by generating microgrants that support deliberative dialogues, workshops, colloquia, seminars, conferences, and speaker series. D. Develop and launch a green event and green office certification program. E. Develop additional outreach and engagement programs to promote awareness and engagement in sustainability-related services, initiatives and groups. F. Expand programs that engage students to serve as educators in peer-to-peer sustainability outreach. G. Grow the inclusion of sustainability in orientation activities and programs. H. Explore the opportunity to establish a sustainability-related theme for a semester, year or first-year experience. Achieved
On Track
On Hold/At Risk
Not Started/Dropped
New Commitments & Projects • Green Spaces Certification Program helps integrate sustainable practices into work and living spaces on campus. Since 2013, over 65 events, 29 offices, 26 labs and 39 residences have been certified. • 5,000 students are engaged in sustainability and waste reduction each year during Move-In, through Eco Move Out, on Lister’s Green Wing and by Campus Sustainability Volunteers in residences. • Building off of the Office of Sustainability’s successful ecoREPS program, the Faculty of Extension will offer a new course in 2015 on “Leading Sustainability at Work.” Notes
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