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The Profile is a biannual magazine for University of Minnesota, Morris alumni, friends, and parents. For more information, see the UMM Alumni Association website.

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Profile: A Model for Regional Resilience

Spring 2020
Communications and Marketing

In this issue: A Model for Regional Resilience:Donors and friends are helping UMN Morris optimize local resources to make greater Minnesota a more resilient place; Small Town Heroes: Center for Small Towns pairs students with rural communities to make good things happen; Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice: Morris Healthy Eating increases access to healthy, real foods in rural Minnesota; Giving News; Campus News Briefs; The Big Picture; Alumni News; Class Notes; Cougar Sports News.
Profile: A Model for Faculty Leadership

Fall 2019
Communications and Marketing

In this issue: Support System: See how private support enhances our model for faculty leadership; Ending Addiction: A look at Kerry Michael's work with communities to fight addiction; PhD in the Making: See what it's like to be a UMN Morris student these days - and meet one of tomorrow's faculty leaders; Inside the Academy: Test your knowledge about the faculty experience and see what it's really like to be a professor at UMN Morris; And the Winners are: Meet this years's Distinguished Alumni Award winner and the Cougar Hall of Fame inductees; Campus News Briefs; Spotlight; The Big Picture; Alumni News; Class Notes; Cougar Sports News.
Profile: Designed to Perform: The Morrison Performing Arts Center: Beautiful, Smart Campus

Spring 2019
Communications and Marketing

In this issue: Nod to the past, look to the future: a look at the celebration of A model for living and learning; Designed to perform: the Morrison Performing Arts Center: step inside the new and improved campus performance venue; Infographic: beautiful, smart campus; Giving news; Campus news briefs; The big picture; Alumni news; Class notes; Cougar sports news.
Profile: Life-Changing Student Experiences: How You Make Them Possible

Fall 2018
Communications and Marketing

In this issue: Pay it forward: Chancellor creates an emergency support fund for students; Spring into action: end-of-year celebration photos; #whenindc: Morris student interns take on Capitol Hill; Infographic: Game changer: the Morris student experience; Campus news briefs; Spotlight; Alumni News; The big picture; Class notes; Cougar sports news.
Profile: A Model for Living and Learning: The Campaign for the University of Minnesota, Morris

Spring 2018
Communications and Marketing

In this issue: A new chapter begins: the inauguration of Chancellor Michelle Behr; Model citizens: find out how donors are making Morris a stronger model than ever before; Giving news; Coming home: Homecoming celebrations remembered in photos; Campus news briefs; Spotlight: special edition: Get to know the men and women behind our biggest fundraising effort to date; A model for living and learning: See what the campaign for Morris is all about (and what you can do to help); The big picture; Alumni news; Class notes; Cougar Sports news
Profile: A Room of Her Own: How Private Giving Supports Campus Mission

Fall 2017
Communications and Marketing

In this issue: Music of the Heart: How Sally Finzel honored her family and enhanced Morris's instrument collection; Giving news; Campus news briefs; Spring Fever: Year-end celebrations remembered in photos; Spotlight; A Room of Her Own: How private giving transforms our beautiful, smart campus; Planes, Trains, and Automobiles: How Chancellor Behr spent her first 100 days; The big picture; Alumni news; Class notes; Cougar sports news
Profile: New Beginnings: Meet Morris's New Chancellor

Spring 2017
University Relations

In this issue: Giving news; Campus news; Homecoming 2016 recap; Spotlight; Feature: Placemaker; A week on the road with Alumni Relations; The big picture; Info graphic: building bridges; Alumni news; Class notes; Cougar Sports news.
Profile: Inspiring Alumni Leaders

Fall 2016
University Relations

This issue of Profile and my impending departure have given me another opportunity: the chance to think about leadership. Why does it matter? What are the elements of effective leadership? And how is it present in Morris alumni? In the pages that follow we focus on several alumni who provide examples of leadership for the rest of us to study and emulate. As we emerge from a summer of violence in this country and around the world, and as we bear witness to an extremely polarized political election season, it seems appropriate to take some time to reflect on what we value in leaders and in leadership.

--From Chancellor Johnson's message
Profile: We Are Morris

Spring 2016
University Relations

We have established ourselves as a leader and a model sustainable community in the University of Minnesota system, in the state of Minnesota, and in the country. We are a nationally ranked, award-winning public liberal arts college, and we are shameless in our promotion of this success. I am so proud of the work we have accomplished together and so honored to have had the opportunity to serve as chancellor at this school the Regents of the University of Minnesota call the “jewel in the crown” of the university system. It truly has been a joy and a privilege to build on the strong foundation established by those who have come before.

I will miss this place, and most of all I will miss each of you— your candor, your outspokenness, your insistence on consultation and collaboration, your profound desire to shape the communities in which you live, and your belief in this campus’s mission.

--From Chancellor Johnson's message
Profile: Greater MN: Making Outstate More Resilient

Fall 2015
University Relations

It is an economic engine and a home for ideas and action and hope. Today many Morris students come from metropolitan areas, but, like many of their small-town counterparts, they choose to stay in or return to Morris and the surrounding area—eager to benefit from that distinctive small-town spirit and also prepared to contribute to the quality of life that compares so favorably to the urban alternative. You will read about some of these individuals in this issue of Profile. These are individuals who bring their talent and their knowledge to this region and thereby preserve the vitality that is so much a part of rural Minnesota.

-- From Chancellor Johnson's message
Profile: Well Founded

Spring 2015
University Relations

These former students moved on. But others who came to Morris as students stayed or later returned, transforming their temporary home into a more permanent one. They’ve come back to serve as city government leaders; as the highschool principal; as the newspaper publisher. They’ve established businesses here; they are now faculty members at their alma mater. You will read about their stories here.

You will also find in this issue the story of a man who is “from this place”—who considers Stevens County his lifelong home—but who is not otherwise connected to the campus. And yet this man, and a growing number of others like him, have found alignment between Morris’s mission and goals and their own. These individuals have generously provided resources to the university to preserve for generations to come the kind of educational experience that happens here, in their home. Home… is where the heart is; home is where the head is. Morris, a place called home.

--From Chancellor Johnson's message
Profile: Our Place in the World

Fall 2014
University Relations

This issue of Profile speaks to the ways in which campus members are interacting with the world and illuminates our active participation in the 21st-century global community. It includes a story on the ways in which Morris students, faculty, and staff have reached out to and benefited from their interactions with the local and growing Latino community. It also features recent recipients of the David C. Johnson Award for International Service Learning.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Green Prairie Community

Spring 2014
University Relations

This issue of Profile features the University of Minnesota, Morris’s leadership in environmental stewardship and all things green. But what does it mean to be a leader? What does it take? And why does it matter?

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Stewarding the Legacy

Fall 2013
University Relations

Summer brings many visitors to the University of Minnesota, Morris campus. In June, some three hundred individuals attended the second Rural Arts and Culture Summit, co-sponsored by Morris’s Center for Small Towns and Springboard for the Arts. The summit brought together people who share an interest in the arts and the particular values and quality of life that are uniquely found in small towns. The people gathered for this two-day summit came to explore how these two things—the arts and small-town values—can converge to create vibrant, model communities.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Legacy & Community

Spring 2013
University Relations

This issue of Profile highlights many individuals who are part of Morris’s history and its legacy—faculty, staff, alumni, and friends who work every day to preserve the legacy of this place, with an eye to the future so that the kind of educational experience we provide today can continue into—and be relevant—for generations to come.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Twelve from 2012 Where Our Grads are Headed Now

Fall 2012
University Relations

And yet, this issue of Profile does pick out several of our most recent grads, featuring not one but twelve of them. I ask you to remember, as you read about these students, that for each of the twelve students featured here, there are twelve more; and twelve more; and twelve more. There aren’t enough pages for us to include all the stories of our recent graduates. We wish we could.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Morris Alums at Work: Unique Jobs

Spring 2012
University Relations

This issue of Profile features living examples of the benefits of a liberal arts education as it introduces us to alumni who have used their education as a springboard for interesting careers and meaningful lives. This issue also features a faculty member who is well known to many of you who read Profile—chemistry professor Jim Togeas. This year, Togeas celebrates an extraordinary milestone in his career: fifty years of teaching at Morris, and still going strong! But there’s more to his extraordinary story: fifty years of teaching at the same institution; five decades of alumni who have learned about chemistry and who have learned about life from this dedicated faculty member.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Nurturing the Entrepreneurial Spirit

Fall 2011
University Relations

Successful entrepreneurs have an uncanny ability to envision the future, to anticipate trends even before they emerge, and to imagine things as they might be. Entrepreneurs aren’t afraid to take risks, to go out on a limb for an idea they have, even if it bucks the tide. In this edition of Profile, you will encounter examples of individuals who exhibit this entrepreneurial spirit, a disposition that characterized this institution from its very founding.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Now and Then Alumni and Student Stories

Spring 2011
University Relations

No one has a mission or story quite like UMM’s—public liberal arts; an educational environment in which we practice the liberal arts; access to educational quality in the context of a model community that asks and answers the big questions of our time; a true living and learning laboratory; commitment to native peoples that carries forward from the past into the future in the form of more than 200 American Indian students on this campus today.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Join the 2010 Celebration!

Fall 2010
University Relations

There’s nothing like a birthday, especially those that have special milestone significance…turning 30, reaching the age of 40, and then there’s 50. Some of you know exactly what I’m talking about. Those of you who don’t, will soon enough. These milestones provide opportunities to reflect—to think about the lives we’ve led and to consider whether there are changes to be made or to what extent we should “stay the course.”

-From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Celebrating 2010 1960-2010: 50 Years at UMM

Spring 2010
University Relations

Come often. Linger long. Commemorate the University of Minnesota, Morris’s 50 years of teaching, research, and service to the community, the region, and the state of Minnesota!

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Renewable and Sustainable

Fall 2009
University Relations

Most of you are aware of the Morris campus’s new tag line—a renewable, sustainable education. The phrase was one result of an intensive marketing and branding effort that has engaged members of our community—including some of you—for the past two years. In order to be effective, a tag line has to be authentic; it has to be more than just a gimmick. It has to capture the “essence” of what we are all about. And I believe that this phrase does just that.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: On stage, on screen--personal and professional rewards

Winter 2009
University Relations

This issue of Profile focuses on the many talents of Morris students, both past and present, with special consideration given to representatives of those whose journey has taken into the world of dramatic production: theatre, film, and television.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: The Annual Honor Roll of Donors

Fall 2008
University Relations

The contributions showcased in this edition of Profile allow us to continue to provide an outstanding learning environment for our students regardless of their financial circumstances and regardless of their social situation. Thanks to the friends and alumni of UMM for their continued commitment to this place and for their faith in the work we do.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: The Importance of Place

Spring 2008
University Relations

Those of us who live in Morris are reminded of the pull of "place" every time we face the juxtaposition of rural and urban--when we move from the Morris rush-minute at Fifth and Atlantic to the 494 rush-hour of the Twin Cities. We are reminded of place every time we are called on to explain to our urban friends what it is people do here. In this sense--in the lack of knowledge of the rural and how rich our lives are here--Morris and its environs take on a kind of exotic, unknown, "other" quality. To those who have never left the city, coming to the country is indeed a "foreign" experience.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message