Office of Sustainability
The mission of the Office of Sustainability is to be a catalyst for environmentally positive change by educating, connecting, and empowering the members of our community for the well-being of our people, mission, and ecological systems.
What is Sustainability?
Sustainability is a framework that develops and integrates best practices of how to combine partnership, community, innovation, and natural environment in order to responsibly meet our current needs and care for our home while ensuring that future generations are able to prosper.
The mission of the Office of Sustainability is to create innovative programs and initiatives that help our university lead in good stewardship of our resources in our community and state while emphasizing responsibility, respect, and innovative development.
Our office serves to connect our campus with our local environment and community to promote social, economic, and environmental sustainability, learning, and development through encouraging collaboration, emphasizing feasibility, and conserving our natural resources.
Our Resources
Our office works closely with students of all academic paths to incorporate sustainability into their experience at UM. We offer semesterly student intern positions that are catered to each interns' interests. Our office can host capstone student research projects or connect students with faculty mentors for their research in sustainability.
The Office of Sustainability has many resources available to faculty and staff. Our office can advertise your open research or student worker positions related to sustainability to interested students. The Office of Sustainability hosts the monthly UM Sustainability Forum where faculty and staff can propose new initiatives or provide input to others' proposals. We also offer classroom presentations to introduce our office to students and share our resources with them, or even support class projects to connect with our campus initiatives and ecology.
You can find updates on Office of Sustainability events, volunteer opportunities, or programming through multiple channels.
- Follow our Instagram account: @olemissgreen
- Subscribe to our newsletter
- Email or call our office using the contact information at the top of the page
Message from the Associate Director
Welcome to our page! Please feel more than free to contact us with any inquiries you may have around waste reduction, ecology programs, efficiency initiatives, or anything else. We seek to be an integrative office that is a multidisciplinary source of support for campus programs at any level. Ole Miss is a natural leader in our beautiful state for both responsible use of our resources and creative innovation. We're pleased to be a catalyst for positive development and to support you in any way we are able.
I hope that by being a part of Ole Miss you are inspired to be a part of, and maintain the natural beauty that exists here- and to take that spirit of responsible stewardship and wonder with you wherever you may go afterward.
John Brugge
Associate Director of the Office of Sustainability
Meet Our Featured Fall 2025 Student Intern
Hear from our Featured Fall 2025 student intern to learn about their experiences with the Office of Sustainability.
Hailey Smith
Sustainability News
OXFORD, Miss. – The National Association of College and University Food Services has awarded the University of Mississippi's Dining Services its gold award for carbon neutrality.