University of Minnesota, Morris
EN-9: Staff Professional Development and Training

The UMN Morris Office of Sustainability holds a sustainability meeting to discuss progress on campus and provide a training for all employees. This meeting is targeted at non-academic staff. We cover sustainability concepts -- like the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

The Office of Sustainability works with campus partners to hold "Summit" meetings each semester on topics like food and composting. Staff on-campus are invited to the meetings which provides them opportunities to learn more about sustainability topics.

The Office of Sustainability also works with professional groups on campus to make sustainability education available at their professional meetings during the year (for example, at UMN Morris we have a Professional and Administrative Staff Association, and the OOS provides sustainability education/training at their meetings).

The campus also has a Fall Professional Development Day with a variety of topics. Sustainability is often included at this event as a topic.

We have several non-academic staff whose work focuses on improving our campus sustainability performance. For example, our campus runs its own composting system with non-academic staff.

The all-campus introduction to the Summit meetings are done via the campus lisserv system, which is used frequently on our campus to alert people to meeting opportunities.

The Morris Fall Professional Development Day also features sustainability topics and provides an opportunity for faculty and staff to learn more about sustainability on-campus and to discuss progress and ideas for improvement.

The Morris Academic Staff Association also has a brown-bag lunch where sustainability ideas are discussed.