In Spring 2025, a CEE 449 course instructed by Prof. Ro Cusick built on water quality testing conducted by the same course in 2024 by conducting water quality testing in all campus residence halls. The testing confirmed previous findings that water quality in residence halls is very good. The final report is attached.

The Vice Chancellor for Research and Innovation Susan Martinis, the Interim Vice Chancellor for Administration and Operations Lowa Mwilambwe, the Associate Vice Chancellor and Executive Director of Facilities & Services Jeff Angiel, the Director of the Institute for Sustainability, Energy, and Environment Madhu Khanna, and the iSEE Associate Director for Campus Sustainability Jennifer Fraterrigo met on May 15, 2025 to discuss the status of the Green Research program and the staffing request.

While everyone agreed that the program and coordinator position are important, the group felt that the timing is not right to ask for a new position given the current economic climate and impending budget recission for F&S. The VCRI suggested we brief the Sustainability Council next fall to inform Provost Coleman and the future chancellor about this effort. Everyone deeply appreciates the committee’s work on this topic and remains enthusiastic about implementing the program once we are in a better financial position. 

Morgan White, Miriam Keep, Elizabeth Murphy, Tiffany Jolley, Quinn Connolly, Sarthak Prasad, and Michael McKelvey met to discuss how best to cross reference iCAP Projects and Recommendations.

Discussion/Decisions

• Rec's link to
  • a Team,
  • Associated Project(s),
  • Objective(s), and
  • Future Updates project
• What to include on the team pages?
  • example logged in and logged out
  • For now: decided to hide the sidebar listing of associated Recommendations and show the list of recommendations w/recommendation updates in main section
  • Discuss how to display the recommendations (and recommendation updates?) in next large group meeting
• What to include on the iWG page? and the Sustainability Council page?
  • iWG project page: button in description field linking to Recommendations page
  • Sustainability Council page: disassociate this project with recommendations
• How to get to recommendations from the Home page?
  • Through link to iWG - decided not including a direct link to Recommendations page
• Could these be based on theme instead of team? What to show on a theme page?
  • Decided not to show list of recommendations on Theme pages; get to recommendations through iCAP Team linked in description
• Which projects should be associated? should it just be by objective and future updates..?
  • Associated Project(s): Don't include iWG and Team projects; just a minimal list of associated project(s)
  • Further Updates Will be Posted To...: 1 new project spawned by recommendation (if applicable)
• How to remove the summary pages?
  • The following projects can be found under Topical iCAP Teams
  • Recommendations summary projects (e.g. Education iCAP Team Recommendations Summary):
    1. Remove list of recommendations from Background
    2. Delete each project update that's actually a recommendation update (after confirming info has been migrated to a Recommendation Update)
    3. Delete Recommendation summary project (?)
  • iCAP Team projects (e.g. Education iCAP Team)
    1. Add link to Recommendations page filtered by related iCAP Team (e.g. see Transportation iCAP Team page)

TODOs:

• Show associated recommendations on projects linked via "Further Updates Will be Posted To..." field
• Add time-based filter on Recommendations listing page (e.g. last 5 years)

iSEE held a Clothing Swap and a Sustainability Rocks event at Green Quad Day on 4/12/2025. Students, community members, and visitors were able to donate and take used clothes during the free thrifting event, as well as paint rocks to place around campus to promote sustainability.

Check out our new report on e-bike and e-scooter infrastructure, based on a survey of peer universities.
It explores how campuses are supporting e-bike e-scooter usage through planning, policies, and infrastructure and offers insights to guide our future efforts.

Final meeting where members reflected on the year's accomplishments and reviewed projects/gave feedback on procedures. 

The Campus Transportation Advisory Committee (CTAC) met on Tuesday, May 6, 2025 from 1 - 2:30 p.m.. Following was the agenda for the meeting:

• Introduction – Morgan White (5 minutes)
• Old Business
  • F&S TDM Status Update – Stacey DeLorenzo and Sarthak Prasad (25 minutes)
  • Lincoln Ave Corridor Study (North of Florida Ave) – CCRPC (15 minutes)
  • Bike Share Updates– Sarthak Prasad (5 minutes)
• New Business
  • EV infrastructure research – Bhagyashree (10 minutes)
  • E-bike research – Bhagyashree (10 minutes)
  • Air Travel Emissions research – Karina Jang (10 minutes)
  • 2025 Transportation Survey – Sepideh Azizi (10 minutes)
• Community Updates – (5 minutes) 

Please see attached the slides from meeting. To view the recording, please go to https://uofi.box.com/s/f9vq8w52a4tjmu154ecuspfyfjqb9784.

The University Bicycle Ordinance was updated in spring 2025. This update includes information and rules for bicycles, e-bikes, and e-scooters on-campus. Download the updated document here: https://go.illinois.edu/BikeOrdinance

Please follow the document attached to read about the 2025 Arbor Day celebration, which was celebrated on the south quad.