I've never run across an academic use of greensheet and wonder what it means thee.
Brokerage houses distribute information about new issues to their associates, describing the security, and its merits and drawbacks, so they can do a good job of foisting it on investors. Because the information is about green (immature) investments, and it's printed on paper, it's a greensheet.
A syllabus is also a sales document, if you think about it, and often the course taught was somewhat difference that what was planned in the syllabus, so it may be that they borrowed the terminology of another enterprise that also markets overpriced dreams to the gullible.
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I've been looking for the etymology of the word greensheet, specifically when used in the context of academia.
I know it's just another way to say "syllabus", but where did the "green" in greentext come from? I've searched Google multiple times using different keywords, including greensheet word etymology, origins of greensheet word, where does the word greensheet come from but am having no luck at all.
In the U.S., the greensheet is the syllabus all college professors will give out or ask students to take note of in the first few days of classes.