lifestyle sustainability project
Description
The Lifestyle Sustainability Project is a plan to enact two proposals that address concerns around Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's lifestyle sustainability and the welfare of its students through a student-focused and administrative-focused approach.
What is the problem we need to solve?
Mind Mapping Exploration
Survey Data Suggests
Proposal Summary
RPI Toolbox Website
Resource Book
Student Surveying
Duration
Tools
Team
Tags
3 Months
Adobe InDesign
Casey Meng, Alex Wong, Mara Beckman
Graphic Design, Prototyping, Usability Testing
research
Students want better accountability from RPI to tackle stressors from unreasonable academic workloads,
inadequate access to health and wellness resources, and lack of investment in digital infrastructure.
Unapproachable Professors: Students feel professors are difficult to approach, leading to distrust and perceptions of negative attitudes.
Overwhelming Workload: Students face heavy deliverable expectations and inconsistencies between course credits and actual work hours.
Difficult Online Platforms: Learning resources, submission pages, and communications are scattered and not centralized, making them hard to manage.
proposals
Student-Focused: Organized collection of school information into a pamphlet or book.
Administrative-Focused: Reviewing resources provided by the school & advocating for administrative changes for a Student Panic Button.
A website that serves as a one-stop-shop for RPI community members seeking information and resources available at RPI, for needs ranging from crisis support to shuttle schedules.
Website Features
Panic Buttons: One-click assistance tailored for specific high-stress/crisis situations.
Help Lines: Phone numbers to call for conversational assistance in crisis situations of varying severities.
Guides: Transportation, Health, Academia, Campus, Dorms, Student Life, Safety, Finance, Faculty, Printable Pamphlet.
A resource book that consolidates helpful information from across all relevant RPI pages.
Book Features
Buildings
Transportation
Health
Safety
Academia
Finance
Student Life
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