One of the passions I mentioned was sustainability. I've started conducting my own research on sustainability in higher education and, believe me, this is a huge issue today. It appears that there are many institutions that face sustainability head on and many institutions that are behind the movement a little bit. If you're as passionate about sustainability as myself you can find plenty of resources on the subject online but I suggest you specifically start at your campus or local library. I've found that the resources at my library have been plentiful and informative. Surprisingly I also found that Pinterest had plenty of great infographics that really spurned me to conduct more research on specific universities and their programs.
My school doesn't have the greatest sustainability program around by any means but there is a great group of students like myself who have been working diligently to change that. I became more interested in other aspects of sustainability outside of recycling during the fall semester of 2013. At that time sustainability initiatives at my university were stagnant. As a residence director I was able to facilitate a recycling program within my residence area that was quite successful in it's first semester and even more successful during the following spring. Word got out about the program and I soon met with another very involved student like myself who was equally, if not more empassioned, about sustainability efforts at the university. A small recycling program soon grew into much more. Myself and fellow passionate students restarted the Student Sustainability Council. I would gladly go into more detail on that later but for now I want to shift focus as to what I'm currently working on.
What's great about Student Affairs is that you can often blend different ideas together and serve a larger audience. For example, I currently work in the University Writing Center where we use paper ALL THE TIME. I recently that Santa Clara University is home to a paperless writing center...this seemed nearly impossible to me when I first heard about it. However, with smart board technology this idea became a reality. There's not much information available about this school's writing center but I plan on sending out some correspondence to as many people as possible to try and figure out how exactly they put together a paperless writing center.
This is now a goal of mine for the foreseeable future so you'll find some of my following entries will be discussing this same topic, while still maintaining the job hunt entries. I apologize for there not being more substance to this post but I promise to have more fruitful writing tomorrow, be well!
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