University of Memphis

Sustainable Campus (Green) Fee Funding


Submit a proposal and/or an idea for the 2024-2025 Funding Cycle


The University of Memphis Green Fee Committee is seeking proposals and ideas from students, faculty, staff, and academic or administrative departments for 2024-2025. The Green Fee generates approximately $350,000 per year from students to be used to make the University of Memphis campus more sustainable. Currently funded projects may request additional funds for continuation of their project; however, projects are approved on a year-to-year basis.

You may view a list of projects funded by the Green Fee in the current fiscal year at
http://www.memphis.edu/bluegoesgreen/greenfee.php.


There are two ways to participate in this process.

PROPOSALS: Proposals are requests for funding from the Green Fee Committee to implement a sustainability focused project.  The person(s) and/or department submitting a proposal must be capable of managing the funds in a university account and carrying out what is needed to fulfill an accepted proposal.  All projects should be completed within one academic year, in this case the Fall 2024 - Summer 2025 timeframe. Extensions are rarely provided so it is important to be able to complete the project during the year for which funding was approved.

The Green Fee Committee, consisting of students, faculty and staff make recommendations to the Vice President for Student Academic Success and the University of Memphis Provost and CFO on allocation of the Green Fee funds. Hearings for proposals will be scheduled between the third and fourth weeks of April, 2024. The Green Fee Committee will make funding recommendations to the Provost and CFO by early May, 2024. Projects will be notified of their status by the end of May, 2024.

Each proposal is scored based on the following categories:


IDEAS:
 You may submit your thoughts on how the Green Fee could be spent.  You do not need to be able to actually carry out a project envisioned in an idea.  It may be a suggestion about how the university could spend Green Fee funds to make the campus more sustainable.  The Green Fee Committee will review ideas and consider them in making recommendations to university departments on future use of the fee.  Should you submit an idea, we may follow up with you about future implementation, but there is no guarantee of this follow up.

The deadline for submitting proposals or ideas is 11:59 pm on April 5, 2024.

Sustainable Campus (Green) Fee Funding Proposal Form

Sustainable Campus (Green) Fee Funding Ideas Form


For additional information contact Dr. Eric Bailey at 901.678.5271 or eabailey@memphis.edu

 

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