| Overall Rating | Silver |
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| Overall Score | 51.71 |
| Liaison | Anne Jakle |
| Submission Date | Oct. 18, 2024 |
The University of New Mexico
EN-6: Community Partnerships
| Status | Score | Responsible Party |
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7.00 / 9.00 |
Jessica
Rowland Senior Lecturer Geography & Environmental Studies, Sustainability Studies |
6.1 Sustainability-focused community partnerships
Narrative and/or website URL providing an overview of the institution’s sustainability-focused community partnerships:
- UNM is a member of the New Mexico Recycling Coalition.
- For the past two years, the City of Albuquerque Office of Sustainability and NM Environment Department Climate Change Bureau have hosted Sustainability Studies student interns.
- Since 2016, an annual scholarship to support a student that is interested in pursuing food systems sustainability has been jointly awarded by the Sustainability Studies Program and La Montanita Food Coop, which is New Mexico's largest food cooperative.
- The Lobo Food Pantry and New Mexico Roadrunner Food Bank partner to provide free food to the student community.
- UNM is a member of the New Mexico Coalition of Sustainable Communities and participates in quarterly meetings and knowledge sharing.
- The "Finding Rural" program in the School of Architecture and Planning, partners with rural communities to bring architecture into service of revitalization.
- The R.H. Mallory Center for Community Geography brings UNM and its surrounding communities together through service learning, collaborative mapping, place-based research, and public events, such as a recent symposium on Indigenous Cartographies.
- A number of additional sustainability-focused community partnerships are featured on the UNM Office of Community Engagement Impact Map.
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6.2 Partnerships to support underrepresented groups and vulnerable populations
Description of the institution’s community partnerships to support underrepresented groups and/or vulnerable populations in addressing sustainability challenges:
Project ECHO is an internationally recognized program run through the UNM Health Sciences Center that facilitates global communication of health care knowledge and remote team problem-solving in critical health care situations. Its over 6,000 programs expand health equity and access to 209 countries and areas. Project ECHO's programs are inclusive of many UN SDG goals, including promoting health and wellbeing, gender equity, reduced inequalities, and climate action. See: https://projectecho.unm.edu/
Among other related community partnerships that support underrepresented groups and vulnerable populations, the Center for Participatory Research at the UNM Health Sciences Center leads Indigenous Health and Wellness partnerships with the goal of reducing long-standing inequities in Indigenous/tribal communities through community mobilization and civic engagement based on the strengths of language, culture, tradition, and community wisdom, with Indigenous/tribal community members as creators and facilitators of the work.
The METALS Superfund Research Program environmental project engages Navajo Nation communities for reasearch and outreach on legacy Uranium mining contamination. Some of these communities include the Blue Gap-Tachee Chapter, Cameron Agricultural Ad Hoc Committee, and the Navajo National Communities of Red Water Pond Road Community Association.
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6.3 Community partnership assessment
Publication that includes the community partnership guidelines:
Online resource that includes the institution’s community partnership guidelines:
Are all of the institution’s community partnerships for sustainability subject to an assessment process that includes joint evaluation by the institution and its community partners?:
Description of the institution’s approach to community partnership assessment and how the results are used to improve reciprocity and mutual benefit:
Currently, community partnerships are assessed at the individual partnership level at UNM and there is no university-wide structure for assessment. However, there is one center at UNM's Health Science Center, the Center for Participatory Research, which has created and utilzes for all of its partnerships Community Partnership guidelines and assessment tools. These are available on the “Engage for Equity” and the UNM Center for Participatory Research websites, which were created with the Center for Participatory Research's national partners, including the University of Washington Indigenous Research Institute, the National Indian Child Welfare Association, Rand Corporation, Waikato University, New Zealand, Community Campus Partnerships for Health, and a U.S. national advisory group of community and regional partners. See https://engageforequity.org/tool_kit/promising-practices/ as well as https://hsc.unm.edu/population-health/_documents/cpr/publishing-agreement.pdf.
While these are not guidelines that have been adopted at the university level, the Center for Participatory Research faculty, staff, and partners adapt these guidelines for all of their active and ongoing partnerships, such as the Wide Engagement for Assessing COVID-19 Vaccination Equity (WEAVE NM) project and Indigenous Health and Wellness partnerships.
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