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The William & Mary Committee on Sustainability has announced the spring 2021 and summer 2021 Green Fee awards. With the promotion of sustainable practices at the forefront of these grants, the Committee on Sustainability members approved a total of $35,712 to be spent across a broad spectrum or projects, from academia and research, to operations that advance sustainability on campus.
Fifteen proposals were submitted for the awards, and 11 projects were selected including nine spring projects and two summer projects.
Since its establishment in 2008, the W&M Green Fee program has funded more than $1.7 million worth of sustainability-related projects. The Green Fee funds sustainability research, outreach, operations, and much more. The committee accepts Green Fee proposals every semester.
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Descendants of enslaved Blacks explore Virginia history
Susan Svrluga, The Washington Post
Dec. 13, 2020
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An aerial shot of Highland, an estate in Charlottesville, Va., that once was home to President James Monroe.Photo by Gene Runion/William & Mary
Growing up, George Monroe Jr. avoided the historical site that was just a few miles from his family s property in Virginia, James Monroe s Highland. To be honest with you, the old folks, the family back in the day, they frowned on it, he said. Who really wants to go visit a plantation, knowing your family members were enslaved there?
But when an archaeological discovery there a few years ago made headlines, he was drawn to the Virginia property once owned by the fifth president in Charlottesville. And when he told a staff member about what his family had always told him about their past, he forged a connection: Now he s one of a council of descendant advisers who are helping to reframe the way history is to