Center for Sustainable Community Development (CSCD)
The Center for Sustainable Community Development was a collection of faculty and staff helping communities achieve their environmental, social and economic sustainable development goals. It is no longer active.
Objectives were:
- Outreach:Â University expertise working side by side with community partners to help them achieve their sustainability goals
- Teaching:Â Bringing community project work into classroom, or better yet, bringing classroom into communities
- Research:Â Developing and testing new approaches for implementing community sustainability
Project Partners were:
- University Partners – all the faculty, researchers and staff currently working on CSCD projects
- Community Partners – all the community leaders we are working closely with on the various projects
- Student Partners – all the grad/undergrad UMD students working on projects, also high school students or other college students from the communities we work with