The Founders Fund was established with gifts from a private donor in honor of the founding faculty of the University of Minnesota, Morris on the occasion of UMM's 40th birthday. Events have included Founders Scholar Forums on the Liberal Arts, which were panels of students and faculty members brought together to answer essential questions related to the liberal arts and to the academy, as well as Founders Convocations, presentations by UMM faculty on relevant topics.
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Systemic Racism in American Healthcare: Making UMN Morris a Part of the Solution
Rachel M. Gibbons Johnson
Rachel Gibbons Johnson explores issues core to UMN Morris and the national landscape, “advocat[ing] for liberal arts colleges, and specifically UMN Morris, to be recognized as an ideal educational setting to train future healthcare professionals.”
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Spring Awakening vs. Spring Awakening
Ray Schultz
As the third in a series for Schultz's Founders Scholar project, he produced an evening of staged readings called Spring Awakening vs. Spring Awakening. He and several students who participated in last fall's musical read analogous excerpts from both the Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik musical, as well as the controversial 1891 play by Frank Wedekind on which the musical is based. This reading was performed as a lecture demonstration with opportunities for questions from the audience. Readers include Evan Aanerud '21, Sally Bremer '18, Ben Erickson '18, Claire McManus '20, Thomas Pederson '18, and Katie Rowles-Perich '18.
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Food for Thought: On the Intersections of Food, Agriculture, and the Liberal Arts
Margaret Kuchenreuther
