Green Raiders

Join the Green Raiders, an organization devoted to practicing and promoting sustainable living through recycling, energy and water conservation, education on environmental issues, and more.

What is a Green Raider?
- We are a student organization that encourages sustainability on campus.
- We’re passionate about protecting the environment and living environmentally friendly.
What do we do?
- Sponsor events on an off campus, including student-friendly sustainable meal prep and making upcycled crafts.
- Implement change on campus.
- Talk about sustainability with students.
- Collaborate with other student-led organizations.
- Educate the community.
- Clean up our local environments: trails, lakes, creeks, etc.
How does it work?
- We meet Tuesdays during UMT throughout the semester.
- Each Green Raiders must spearhead an initiative, project, or event.
- Weekly work varies from one hour to four hours per week.
Why apply?
- We’re a paid work-study program, including our weekly meetings.
- Meet new friends, faculty, and staff.
- Make a difference in your community.
What now?
- Are you interested in applying? Send an email to our advisor, Amy McElhinney at sustainability@mountunion.edu, attend one of our meetings, attend an event, or reach out to a current member.
- Applications open in the spring of every year.
- Follow the Green Raiders on Instagram @umugreenraiders.

Green Raider Sustainability Awards

The Mount Union Green Raider Sustainability Awards are presented annually to a faculty member, a staff member, and a student who has enhanced sustainability at Mount Union through actions that promoted the principles of social, financial, and environmental responsibility, and who has done so in a way that created a more sustainable, efficient, and healthy atmosphere for our campus community.

Nominations may be made by any member of the campus community. You may nominate as many individuals as you wish. To nominate a student, a faculty member, or a staff member, send an email to sustainability@mountunion.edu with the nominee's name, whether they are a faculty member, staff member, or student, as well as an answer to the following question:

Past Green Raider Award Recipients

2023
Kanika Bansal
Stephen Craig
Emily R. Becker

2022
Chris Stanton
Jamie Greiner
Hayley Maher

2021
Hans Tritico
Bonnie Twaddle
Alejandra Twiss

2020
Sheryl (Ames ’90) Mason
Dianne Hoover
Emily Keller

2019

Kelsey Scanlon
Dominic Golembiewski
Carly Jaksic

2018
Shehla Arif
Anson Gross
Mallory Glenn

2017
Scott Gravlee
Gina Maida
Reilly Augustine and Gretchen Dietz

2016
Paul Tidman
Jim Rhodes
Becky Oblak

2015
Chuck Mcclaugherty
Abby Honaker
Hayley Buzulencia

2014
Steve Kramer
Debbie Knepp
Sarah Kelly

2013
Lori Kumler
Blaine Lewis
Kelly Slutz

2012
Debra Boyd-Kimball
Lorie Miller
Zak Suhar