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Students in Sustainable Residences:

The Ramapo College Student Sustainable Living Residences began operating in the fall of 2010. To be eligible to live in these residences students agree to follow “green lifestyle practices”. The residences consist of apartment style units with food preparation capabilities. These residences are in close proximity to the Sharp Sustainability Education Center where regular lectures are scheduled covering various sustainability related topics.

At the Havemeyer Edible Garden, students living in sustainable housing attend sessions covering topics such as tools needed to start an edible garden, planning a garden, planting a garden and tending it as well as harvesting and preparing food using ingredients from the garden.

1STEP – (Students Together for Environmental Progress)  Club Plants the Garden

The Ramapo College Student Sustainable Living Residences began operating in the fall of 2010. To be eligible to live in these residences students agree to follow “green lifestyle practices”. The residences consist of apartment style units with food preparation capabilities. These residences are in close proximity to the Sharp Sustainability Education Center where regular lectures are scheduled covering various sustainability related topics.

At the Havemeyer Edible Garden, students living in sustainable housing attend sessions covering topics such as tools needed to start an edible garden, planning a garden, planting a garden and tending it as well as harvesting and preparing food using ingredients from the garden.

SIFE – Students in Free Enterprise Club Develops Edible Garden in India

SIFE is described as “…an international non-profit organization that works with leaders in business and higher education to mobilize university students to make a difference in their communities while developing the skills to become socially responsible business leaders”.

In  2011SIFE students raised $250 dollars through the sale of t-shirts. Those funds were matched by Havemeyer Edible Garden funds and were used to initiate a partner edible garden in India. The edible garden will be located in a tribal area in South India where Ramapo College students attend a semester long study abroad program.

Education Opportunity Fund (EOF) Students’ Summer Nutrition Program

All EOF freshmen at Ramapo College attend the Summer Studies Program. This six week program begins during the last weekend in June and requires students to enroll in two to three courses, one seminar, study/recitation session and advisement sessions and tutorials. In 2011all students completed the SNAAKS plus© nutrition education program. The SNAAKS plus© nutrition program is a nutrition education curriculum consisting of six 1.5 hour sessions aimed to improve the eating and nutrition behaviors of college students. The SNAAKS plus© curriculum was developed by Dr. Ehlert who teaches Peer Nutrition Educators (PENE) to deliver the program. PENE training entails week long intensive training sessions lasting 7.5 hours each day. Senior EOF students who demonstrate an academic interest in the health, environmental or fitness fields are chosen to be Peer Nutrition Educators.

NAAKS; Students Nutrition Attitudes, Action, Knowledge & Skills

Evaluating Your Health

  • Where are you at and where does your food come from?
  • Learning to balance your plate.

Rate Your Plate Before It’s Too Late:

  • Compare your eating to the recommendations from balancing your plate
  • Goal setting for Health Success.

Getting Fresh On Campus

  • Eating fresh fruits and vegetables daily
  • Goal setting to increase your fresh fruit and vegetable consumption.

    Facts of Fast Fats & Sugar

    • Finding fat and sugar in different fast foods and packaged snack foods
    • Goal setting to decrease your fast food and packaged food consumption.

    Breakfast Grab & Go

    • Eating whole grains and calcium rich foods daily
    • Goal setting to increase whole grain and calcium rich food consumption.

    Evaluating Your Progress

    • How far you have come along?
    • From the beginning of the SNAAKS + program, what have you learned and accomplished?