Student Sustainability Fee
In April 2007, University students overwhelmingly voted in favor of increasing student fees by $12 per year in order to fund the purchase of clean, renewable energy. Ninety-one percent of the nearly 4000 students who voted on this non-binding referendum approved of a plan that would establish a fee that would begin at $4 the first year and would increase by $2 each semester for a maximum of $12. In September 2008, the Committee for the Review of Student Fees unanimously approved the fee which would allow almost all of the electricity used by students to be generated by renewable resources such as wind, solar, and biomass. Students will start paying the sustainability fee in 2010.