CARBONDALE, Ill. (AP) – The Sustainability Council at Southern Illinois University is reviewing 28 proposed projects to enhance campus sustainability using money from a student “green fee.”
The council comprised of students, faculty and staff reviews the proposals and selects the strongest ones for funding.
The Southern Illinoisan reports the campus has nearly 170 sustainability projects made possible by the green fee, which was instituted by a campus-wide referendum in 2009.
An environmental student organization led the initiative to adopt the $10 student fee in 2007.
Sustainability coordinator Karen Schauwecker says the group drew the idea from other universities where students had paid a Green Fee to help fund green initiatives on campus.
Sustainability coordinator Geory Kurtzhals says similar student fees are becoming common at universities that are trying to push sustainability.
