Each year, the Center for Community Partnerships, which includes the Center for Small Towns and the Office of Community Engagement, awards one student, one faculty/staff member, and one community partner with a community engagement award for engaging in meaningful campus-community partnerships. We recognize these award winners at a celebration at the end of the spring semester.
Criteria
The Community Engagement Community Partner Award recognizes a community-based partner or organization that has enhanced the quality of life in the community in meaningful and measurable ways and has engaged in the development of sustained, reciprocal partnerships with the college or university, thus enriching educational as well as community outcomes.
For individuals: Describe how this person has connected their paid or volunteer work with faculty, staff, and/or students and enhanced campus-community connections.
For organizations: Describe how this organization has partnered with UMM in ways that enhance the common good and campus-community connections.
In your description of the community member’s or community organization’s work, please address the following criteria:
- How has this person or organization contributed to "the development of sustained, reciprocal partnerships with the University of Minnesota Morris, thus enriching educational as well as community outcomes?"
- How has this person or organization "enhanced the quality of life in the community in meaningful and measurable ways?"
Nomination Process
Self-nominations or nominations provided by at least one person who is familiar with the nominee’s community engagement are acceptable. One important criterion, however, is the impact of the nominee’s community engagement on the broader campus and regional communities. Therefore, nominees whose nominations are signed by multiple people in a variety of roles on campus and in the community or who receive multiple nominations will have a greater chance of receiving the award.
Nomination Requirements
- The name(s) and contact information for the nominator(s)
- The preferred name and contact information for the nominee
- The award for which you are nominating the nominee (UMM student, UMM faculty/staff, or community partner)
- A letter that addresses the criteria for that particular award (criteria are listed below). Be sure to include details about community organizations/members or campus organizations/members with which the nominee has been engaged, and to tell specific stories to demonstrate how the nominee meets the criteria.
Alternatively you can send your nomination letter as an attachment to partnerships@morris.umn.edu or bring/send a hard copy to Cathy Solvie at the Clifford J. Benson Center for Community Partnerships located on the second floor of the Welcome Center.
Sponsor
Center for Community Partnerships, including