Energy & Environment Committee (EEC) Purpose

To educate the students of the university in how best to work with our environment, we must institute environmentally responsible procedures in all campus activities. We must build a culture of environmental responsibility that educates students whenever they are on campus. This must include not only curriculum changes, but changes in energy use, purchasing, recycling, waste disposal and capital improvement. We must conduct our affairs in a manner that safeguards the environmental health and safety of students, faculty, staff and our local community. As a means to accomplish our goals and achieve campus participation, an Environmental and Energy Committee will be established.
 

• Educate the members of the university community on energy and environmental issues
• Establish an Environmental Policy and review relevant university policies
• Monitor financial effectiveness of the operation of the policy
• Maintain a list of research projects performed on environmental and energy related topics
• Recommend any savings generated as a result of the environmental policy be split with half going back to the function that generated the savings and the other half going into a fund used to support future environmental and energy saving projects
• Recommend projects to be supported from the fund
• Recommend that the University seek donations to support specific environmental and energy saving projects
• Conduct an annual audit to assess the progress being made toward these goals
• Report the annual audit results and all other significant information to the Provost