U North Carolina Greensboro Links Community-Engaged Research to SDGs
Over the last year, the university aligned all of its community engaged research with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals using Collaboratory. Collaboratory began at the university’s Institute for Community and Economic Engagement as a solution for organizing and reporting campus-wide community engagement activity.
U Minnesota Moves Forward to Return Land to Indigenous Community
The university recently supported the transfer of 3,400 acres of the Cloquet Forestry Center land, the primary research and education forest for the university, to the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. This action fulfills recommendations for the return of Indigenous lands from the TRUTH Project: Towards Recognition and University-Tribal Healing. Moving forward, the university will partner with the Fond du Lac Band to finalize agreements that create new opportunities to strengthen forestry and natural resources education, research and stewardship.
U North Carolina Greensboro Partners on 20 KW Solar Array
The university's new 20-kilowatt solar array provides hands-on STEM education to Middle College at UNCG, a school that provides career-based pathways and college credit to students. The project was funded through a North Carolina initiative by NC GreenPower.
U New Mexico Publishes Five Year Sustainability Plan
The university's inaugural Strategic Sustainability Plan was released in October and is organized around two core areas–campus operations, focusing on university physical infrastructure and services that support the institution; and engagement and culture, focusing on embedding sustainability in education, training, events and governance across campus.
