| Overall Rating | Silver - expired |
|---|---|
| Overall Score | 56.23 |
| Liaison | Rachael Wein |
| Submission Date | July 11, 2014 |
| Executive Letter | Download |
Smith College
EN-9: Community Partnerships
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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2.00 / 3.00 |
Jennifer
Walters Dean Religious Life |
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Does the institution have at least one formal sustainability partnership with the local community that meets the criteria as “supportive”?:
Yes
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A brief description of the institution’s supportive sustainability partnership(s) with the local community:
Smith College’s House Community Service and Sustainability (HCSS) Recognition Program is designed to be engaging, creative, educational, fun and insightful. Projects can be one time, a series of projects, incorporate on-going work students in your house are already engaged in, or be a composite of several different kinds of projects. You can focus on sustainability or community service or both sustainability and community service. (http://www.smith.edu/sao/reslife/hcsp-tips.php) Gardening the Community- Smith works with people in the local community to educate how to establish personal gardens.
Projects are ongoing.
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Does the institution have at least one formal sustainability partnership with the local community that meets the criteria as “collaborative”?:
Yes
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A brief description of the institution's collaborative sustainability partnership(s):
Smith College has a relationship with a local community organization called Nuestras Raices, whose mission is: to promote economic, human and community development in inner-city Holyoke through projects relating to food, agriculture, and the environment. The organization draws its membership and leadership from the members of its network of community gardens. It offers a position for Smith Students and Faculty to work with the Environmental Justice Program Director to research environmental problems affecting Holyoke's low-income Latino Community. Project is ongoing.
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Does the institution have at least one formal sustainability partnership with the local community that meets the criteria as “transformative”?:
No
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A brief description of the institution's transformative sustainability partnership(s) with the local community:
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A brief description of the institution’s sustainability partnerships with distant (i.e. non-local) communities:
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The website URL where information about sustainability partnerships is available:
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