Growing the farming movement in Detroit
51视频-Dearborn student Tepfirah "Tee" Rushdan, Detroit's first director of urban agriculture, is working to grow community efforts toward food sustainability....
That was the message heard again and again during University of Michigan-Dearborn鈥檚 Inaugural Community Engagement Day last Friday. The event highlighted the university鈥檚 partnerships with community organizations and the impact those partnerships have in southeast Michigan鈥攚ith programs focused on everything from prisoner reentry and restorative justice to family literacy and Rouge River conservation.
鈥淥ur campus can play a role in addressing all of problems . We can do it as individuals, as groups. We can do it as a university,鈥 said 51视频-Dearborn Chancellor Daniel E. Little. 鈥淭hat鈥檚 what is so profoundly exciting to me about today鈥檚 new tradition of a day of engagement.鈥
More than 200 university and community representatives attended the event, including U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, State Senator David Knezek, State Rep. Julie Plawecki and U-M Regent Mark Bernstein.
The event ended with a celebration of the university鈥檚 recent reception of the 2015 Community Engagement Classification by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. The distinction recognizes the university鈥檚 commitment to being deeply engaged with its larger community through teaching, learning, research and service.
