University of Minnesota, Crookston
AC-10: Support for Sustainability Research

The Institute on the Environment Mini Grant is open to students on any UMN campus. Projects led by students do need a faculty/staff advisor desinated through a letter of support and willingness to help manage the funds, but student applications are led by the students https://environment.umn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/IonE-Mini-Grant-Application-Guide-1.pdf

The Institute on the Environment provides a number of incentives to encourage research (including research by staff) on sustainability topics. Examples include: 1) Impact Goal Grants ($50k). With this program, the Institute on the Environment aims to launch multi-disciplinary, community-engaged partnerships to research sustainability-related topics aligned with IonE's impact goals. 2) Mini Grants ($3k). These grants are intended to help spur new collaborative efforts by providing small amounts of funding and space (for meetings, small conferences, new courses, reading groups, etc.) to interdisciplinary groups of faculty, staff, and students from across the University system. The grants are meant to encourage scholarly collaboration across disciplines, units or campuses at the University of Minnesota.

Interdisciplinary work, public engagement, international activities and
initiatives, attention to questions of diversity, technology transfer, and other
special kinds of professional activity by the candidate should be considered
when applicable. The awarding of indefinite tenure presupposes that the
candidate's record shows strong promise of his or her achieving promotion to
professor. The promotion and tenure process (particularly the "7-12" statement) specifically acknowledges the importance of interdisciplinary work. https://faculty.umn.edu/heads-chairs/promotion-tenure-review/approved-712-statements

The Roger D. Moe Library provides a variety of ongoing sustainability research support for faculty, staff, students, and community users of the University of Minnesota Crookston. UMN Crookston librarians provide research assistance regarding sustainability research. The library regularly purchases sustainability materials (e.g., books, streaming video, journals, and more) via ongoing collections approval plans (i.e., items that meet profile criteria in different disciplines, but which are inclusive of sustainability research and practices), and via discretionary purchase by expert librarians. The Roger D. Moe Library supports information literacy for sustainability through subject guides that are mapped to subject disciplines, and course-specific library course pages.The library supports open access publishing through faculty and student projects on PressBooks, negotiating open access of journal articles, and depositing materials in our institutional repository, University Digital Conservatory, and DRUM, our data repository.