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The Envisioning Process
Through a shared envisioning process that included two community
events, online surveys, blogs, and email submissions of ideas,
thousands responded to the design challenge.
In the Spring of 2007, 140 community members contributed to a
questionaire that guided participants in crafting a vision for the
“perfect university.”
77 community members
sent letters to the task force describing their visions for university
change, and
200
students in an introductory natural resources class developed a list of university priorities.
On April 30th, 2007, the task force hosted an “Open
Space” event, where
350+
attendees worked in break-out groups to craft vision statements
relating to topics such as carbon neutrality, curriculum and
pedagogy, diversity and social justice, community integration,
sustainable food systems and campus landscapes.
Task Force members reviewed and synthesized the results of
these surveys and events to establish a set of vision
statements to guide the proposal's development.
988
students, faculty, staff, and community members ranked the vision
statements in a second survey.
In September 2006, a "Community Congress on Integrative Solutions"
brought together over
300
community members to learn about the proposal and help develop ideas
for "transformative projects
."
Watch videos of the event's speakers (Including
David Orr)
here.
In January, 2008, over 60 names for the new pan-university agency were
proposed and discussed on a blog by the community , and 300
previous project participants scored the names in an online survey, the results of which are posted here.
This
paper, recently submitted to the
Journal for Sustainability in Higher Education, presents the
envisioning process and results in more detail.
Videos from the 1st Annual UVM
Community Congress on Integrative Solutions
September
24th, 2007
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Melinda Moulton,
Main Street Landing Co.
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President
Daniel Fogel, University of Vermont
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Peter
Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline: the Art and Practice of the
Learning Organization who has been named one of the "people who had the
greatest influence on business strategy over the last 100 years."
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Audio
with all three talks: MP3 (116 MB)
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September
29th, 2007
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Robert
Costanza, UVM Gund
Professor of Ecological Economics and Director of the Gund Institute
for Ecological Economics
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Lisa
Aultman-Hall, Professor, School of Engineering and Director of the UVM
Transportation Center
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Fayneese
Miller, Dean of the UVM College of Education and Social Services
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David
Orr,
UVM Marsh Professor at Large Professor and Chair of Oberlin College
Environmental Studies Program
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Learn More About Envisioning
www.uvm.edu/giee/ESDA
http://www.uvm.edu/giee/?Page=beyondenvironmentalism/index.html (see especially
the video of Dana
Meadow’s
talk)
Help Envision the UVM of the Future!
- You can help identify the most important aspects of the
vision
for UVM
by completing a brief
online survey.
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