Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 70.84
Liaison Troy Goodnough
Submission Date June 2, 2015
Executive Letter Download

STARS v2.0

University of Minnesota, Morris
EN-9: Community Partnerships

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete 2.00 / 3.00 Troy Goodnough
Sustainability Director
Office of Sustainability
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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

A brief description of the institution’s supportive sustainability partnership(s) with the local community:

UMM constantly looks for more ways to form partnerships with the community. A few of the existing partnerships are described below. This work is ongoing and for the groups below has take place for more than 10 years and is ongoing.

Center for Small Towns (CST):
The Center for Small Towns works to connect the resources of the University with projects in towns with populations of 5,000 or less. Many of these projects have a sustainablity focus including projects and internships with local environmental advocacy nonprofits.

Office of Community Engagement:
UMM's Office of Community Engagement works to form relationships between students and the community. These partnerships often focus on creating a more sustainable food system and local economy.

Pride of the Prairie meal:
Each semester our school and dining service partner with the Buy Fresh, Buy Local program to bring a local foods meal to our campus. This meal is included on meal plans and community members and off campus students are able to buy tickets. The meal provides a great opportunity for community members and students to have a conversation about local foods while enjoying live music and local food.


Does the institution have at least one formal sustainability partnership with the local community that meets the criteria as “collaborative”?:
Yes

A brief description of the institution's collaborative sustainability partnership(s):

For the past several years, Morris has been engaged with community partners, both local and urban to help develop our potential to prepare for extreme weather change in Morris. Our goal is to make our community more resilient to the changes we are already experiencing. We were given a statewide award by Environmental Initiative, called Morris Engaged: Planning and Action for Climate Resilience -- as a celebration of these efforts.

http://www.environmental-initiative.org/our-work/environmentalinitiative-awards/2015-awards-finalists

The effort has evolved from 2013 to 2015. See the report to learn more:
http://jefferson-center.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/Morris-Area-Climate-Dialogue-Report.pdf


Does the institution have at least one formal sustainability partnership with the local community that meets the criteria as “transformative”?:
No

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:
http://www.morris.umn.edu/cst/

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