November 7, 2009 • 12:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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The Tufts University Office of Sustainability and the class Environmental Action: Shifting from Saying to Doing hosted a half-day conference for college students region wide to share best practices in peer-to-peer education. Eco-Reps are students who promote environmental stewardship among residential students by raising awareness about ecological issues and encouraging environmentally conscious behavior.
Topics that discussed during the symposium were:
- Best ways to engage students on campus
- Compensation for Eco-Representatives
- Reaching faculty and staff through the Eco-Rep Programs
- Effective dorm activities
- Funding Eco-Rep programs
- Engaging students who live off campus
- Edutainment (educating while entertaining)
- Cool/popular projects
- Addressing the special challenges of apartment-style dorms
- Best ways to create lasting behavior change
The structure of this symposium allowed students from different schools to lead learning session in a topic that their program is confident in. It was a great opportunity for these students to create a community of students active in creating positive environmental change on their campus. It also gave students the mobilizing and facilitating tools to create grass roots peer to peer environmental education in their communities after they graduate.
Our goal is to have students leave this symposium feeling inspired to continue their jobs as Eco-Reps in peer to peer environmental education. We hope that they leaving feeling that they were given new tools to help them overcome barriers they may face in the work they do. Most importantly we hope these students leave feeling that they belong to a community of students who are all working for the same cause of creating an environmentally conscious community on their university.
Registration - SOLD OUT
We are striving for 10 people per school. Early registration fee is $20 with a deadline of October 30th. Registration fee after October 30th will be $25. You can register for the event by filling out the registration form and mailing both the form and a check payable to Trustees of Tufts College to:
Dallase Scott
Office of Sustainability
c/o TIE
Miller Hall, rear
210 Packard Ave.
Medford, MA 02155
Participating schools
- Brandeis University
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Champlain College
- Clark University
- Connecticut College
- Harvard University
- Keene State College
- Northeastern University
- Suffolk University
- Tufts University
- UMass Amherst
- University of Vermont
- Yale University
Schedule
(draft - you will get a printed copy of the final version when you check in)
| Time | Track One | Track Two |
| 12:30 PM | Registration and light lunch (Crane Room, Paige Hall) | |
| 1:00 | Welcome and Introductions; group activities (Vermont students) | |
| 1:45 | Maintaining engagement throughout the year
| Reaching Faculty and Staff through Eco-Reps
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| 2:30 | Ramping up an Eco-Rep program
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| 3:15 | Refreshments and Round Table Discussions
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| 4:15 | Shifting from Saying to Doing: Teaching future activists
| Working with Food and Dining Services
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| 5:00 | Group activities (Tufts students) | |
| 5:15 | Closing Conversation: Collaborating with other schools Crane Room | |
| 5:30-7:00 | Dinner, Socializing and Music! Crane Room | |
If you have any questions please contact the organizers at:
Dallase.Scott@tufts.edu
Alexandra.Beretta@tufts.edu