Reflection On Ethics And Civic Engagement By Fayetteville State University

I participated in a service learning activity through Fayetteville State University’s Ethics and Civic Engagement HB-1 class. I immensely enjoyed the experience and the impact I made on the recycling effort in the New Science and Technology building. The goal of the class was to expose students to environmental and sustainability issues. FSU mission on sustainability is “FSU signed the American College & University Presidents’ Climate Commitment (ACUPCC) now known as Carbon Commitment in April 2010. It is a high-visibility effort to address global climate disruption and institutional commitments to eliminate net greenhouse gas emissions from campus operations, and to promote the research and educational efforts to equip society to re-stabilize the earth’s

I did not see the same recycling urgency from other students. Many times, I have seen students throwing away plastic bottles in the trash, even though the recycling bin was right next to the trash bin. Also, I have always been passionate about the environment and its impact on my daily life, however I did not know that the environmental issues and the carry capacity of the planet is rapidly declining at its current rate. The service learning project had several different responsibilities student could sign up for, our class was responsible for bagging, post sort weighting, data collection and the clean up team. I chose to be on the post-sort weight team and I had three other teammates. Our responsibilities as the post-sort weighting team was to “weight separately the sorted bags of trash and recycling, then report the weight by categories to the data collection team.” Before participating in the service learning project, I did not know my teammates; Jermaine, Takoiyah and Dante. This was the first time all of us had interacted with each other, the service learning project was something none of us had participated in