Campus Sustainability Fellows 2014-15Application

Application Instructions: Please limit your application answers to 2 pages or less. The application is due by Friday, August 29th.

The Campus Sustainability Fellows (CSF) program is a paid student corps that assists individual Duke schools in assessing and reducing their environmental impact while connecting to broader campus sustainability initiatives.

The CSF program is open to upper-class undergraduate and masters/graduate students. Fellows will work an average of 8-10 hours a week at $11.50/hr and will be assigned to a particular school at Dukesuch as the Fuqua School of Business. With guidance from Sustainable Duke, fellows identify, collaborate with and provide resources to staff clients within each school who are interested and engaged in sustainability and workplace greening.Fellows work to access schools’ environmental impact and identify opportunities for greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions.Fellows will report school assessments and progress to the Campus Sustainability Committee to better connect their efforts with campus sustainability priorities.

Examples of previous year’s work include –

  • The Sanford School of Public Policy Sustainability Fellow worked with the Sanford Green Team to implement and assess a new composting and mixed recycling pilot program.
  • The Trinity College of Arts and Sciences Sustainability Fellow worked with the Manager of Natural Sciences in the Biology Department on Trinity energy efficiency projects including expansion of the Duke Green Labs program.
  • The Fuqua School of Business Sustainability Fellow worked with Fuqua Finance and Facilities staff to evaluate the new mixed recycling program and expand composting efforts.
  • The School of Nursing Sustainability Fellow worked with DUSON Finance and Administration and Facility Operations departments to facilitate student interest in the connection between public health and sustainability.

For 2014-15 there will be three Fellow positions open with an additional fourth Fellow from the Nicholas School Assistantship program that will assist the Sustainability Director with coordination of the overall program.

Contact Information

Name:

E-mail:

Phone:

Grad/Undergrad:

Year:

Major:

I am interested and eligible for the Campus Sustainability Fellow Nicholas school assistantship position: ______yes ______no

I have work study: ______yes ______no

  1. Why are you interested in being a Campus Sustainability Fellow at Duke?
  1. How have you contributed to Duke’s overall sustainability efforts to date? (i.e. course or projects on sustainability, participated in student environmental group, taken the Duke Carbon Calculator, etc.)
  1. You see some examples projects from previous years above – what two areas of sustainability are you most interested in focusing on with CSF program and why?
  1. What personal traits do you possess which would make you an asset to the CSF team?

Please return application to . Call 919-660-1434 with questions.

Due by Friday, August 29th, 2014