Committee on the Campus Environment

Committee on the Campus Environment was organized as a standing committee at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK) in August 1999. Its mission is to advise the Administration on institutional policies and behaviors that promote environmental stewardship at UTK. As a Research I university, UTK has both the qualifications and the responsibility to demonstrate leadership as a "living laboratory" for environmental stewardship.

To fulfill its mission, the Committee will provide advice on ways to:

In this context, the term "UTK campus" includes the agricultural as well as the main campus, and the term "physical environment" includes the built as well as the natural environment. The committee will include as part of its deliberations the relationship of UTK to the larger physical community in which it is situated.

Members of the Committee are appointed by Chancellor Loren Crabtree. To aid its deliberations, the Committee may on its own initiative form task forces and work groups, whose members may include--in addition to Committee members--other students, faculty, and staff at UTK as well as non-UTK members. All recommendations to the Administration are made by the Committee