Profile (1996-)

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

The first iteration of the UMN Morris Alumni Association's newsletter was published in 1964 and went by the name UMM Alumni Association Newsletter. The newsletter was published under this name until 1974, when it changed to the Morris ALUMNews. The newsletter was ceased briefly from 1981-1987. The newsletter began publication again in 1987 as UMM To You, and changed names again in 1996 to Profile.

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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
Profile: Stories of UMMers and creatures great and small

Winter 2008
University Relations

You can see that I have a passion for animals and their safe care. And passion is what this edition of Profile is all about--passion for learning, passion for one's calling, and passion for the University of Minnesota, Morris.

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

Fall 2007
University Relations

This issue of Profile features a variety of partnerships that have been crafted by imaginative and dedicated individuals to ensure that the University of Minnesota, Morris is able to accomplish its mission and is well positioned for the future. The partnerships you will read about here are truly inspiring and speak to the strong belief that many UMM friends, faculty, and staff members have in the future of this institution.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: UMM Faculty--teachers, mentors, advisers, researchers, scholars, supporters, encouragers, friends

Spring 2007
University Relations

The focus of this issue of Profile is on UMM faculty and the impact that their dedication has on the lives of students and therefore, on the future of us all. There are remarkable stories within these pages of the dedication of faculty members, whose commitment to their academic discipline and their scholarly vocation is exceeded only by their dedication to the students they educate.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Citizens of the World

Winter 2007
University Relations

The theme of this edition of Profile is "Citizens of the World," and our focus is on the many international and global experiences available here for University of Minnesota, Morris students. The examples you will encounter as you read through this are involved as learners, teachers, observers, and performers in some of the most creative and adventurous international activities currently found in higher education.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: "Giving back" Celebrating service, volunteerism, generosity

Fall 2006
University Relations

Though I have only recently joined the UMM community, I am already impressed by and proud of the talented, dedicated, lively, and interesting group of people that lives and works here! I am honored to be serving as the chancellor of the University of Minnesota, Morris.

--From Chancellor Johnson's Message
Profile: Legacy graduates share UMM experiences

Spring 2006
University Relations

On June 30, 2006, Sam Schuman, University of Minnesota, Morris chancellor, will step down as chief administrative officer and return to teaching--the essence of his academic calling. During his 11-year tenure, first as vice chancellor for academic affairs and dean and then as chancellor, creating and supporting quality, innovative educational experiences for students has been his fundamental, guiding principle. "We've been fortunate to benefit from Chancellor Sam's visionary leadership," states University of Minnesota President Robert Bruininks, "which has improved the school's academic foundation and the student experience so significantly."

--From Chancellor Schuman's Message
Profile: Why Write?

Winter 2006
University Relations

We have been doing some careful strategic thinking about UMM's future during the past months. The entire University of Minnesota system has been working on a strategic plan, as has our campus, and, in addition, we are searching for a new chancellor. I find it strange, and unexpected, that as an impending retiree I'm thinking so much about what is to come, and so little about what has been!

--From Chancellor Schuman's Message
Profile: Take Flight

Fall 2005
University Relations

I told our campus community that only time will tell if I was the right person at the right time for UMM, but that I know already that UMM was certainly the most right college for me, and I was incredibly lucky to land here. I have had the rare and wonderful honor to work with splendid a administrative team, to follow three exceptional predecessors, to know an outstanding faculty and a dedicated staff and, most of all, to encounter the best students any college in the world could attract. For all those gifts and many, many more, I am profoundly grateful.

--From Chancellor Schuman's Message
Profile: Becoming--Stories of discovery and growth

Spring 2005
University Relations

Colleges, too, have opportunities to define and move into their futures, although rarely as dramatically as first year students. As this issue of Profile documents, this is such a moment for UMM. Physically, our campus has changed remarkably in the past few years, and will be continuing to develop in the next few, as we complete the Social Science renovation project, the biomass heating/cooling plant and the new athletic field. Two areas covered in the pages that follow represent particularly exciting and dramatic moves for our college into its future.

--From Chancellor Schuman's Message
Profile: Alumni Stories: Health Fitness Research Medicine

Winter 2005
University Relations

The theme of this issue of Profile is medicine, health and wellness, a timely topic as we celebrate the successes of our student athletes in our move to NCAA Division III, commemorate the first half-decade of the astonishingly successful Regional Fitness Center, and continue to work for shared athletic facilities with the Morris Area Public School District.

--From Chancellor Schuman's Message
Profile: Express Yourself! philanthropically, politically, artistially

Fall 2004
University Relations

the theme of this issue of Profile is "Express Yourself". We are focusing upon self expression in the worlds of politics, the arts and philanthropy. I can certainly testify that free and enthusiastic expression in all these venues, is flourishing at UMM--indeed, there are occasionally days in my professional life as chancellor when it occurs to me that it might be nice to take a short break from all this vigorous expression!

--From Chancellor Schuman's Message
Profile: Actor Peter Coyote calls graduates to engaged citizenry

Spring 2004
University Relations

At our core, our unmoving center, is our mission: to provide to the students of our region, sate and nation an undergraduate liberal arts education of uncompromising rigor and excellence in the public sector. Forty-four years ago, that was what our founders envisioned for our campus, and we have been unswerving in pursuing that ambitious goal. That single-minded and unchanging sharp focus, I would suggest, has been central to our success. Rather than the distraction of trying to become "all things for all people," we have consistently worked together to do better and better the single things that we all agree we should be doing.

--From Chancellor Schuman's Message
Profile: Student-faculty collaborative: UMM at its best

Winter 2004
University Relations

A college is a community of learners, and the best instruction takes place in intimate, rigorous, active conversation--a student, a teacher, a log. I hope you'll enjoy these portraits of collaborative education: there are some wonderful exemplary illustrations here. But I also encourage you to mull the fact that for each such picture in Profile there is literally hundreds of equally inspiring but publicized collaborative ventures. All these profiles in learning are UMM at its best!

--From Chancellor Schuman's Message
Profile: Campus designated Historic District

Spring 2003
University Relations

Inside: Commencement 2003; Alumnus receives Fulbright Scholarship; Meek, Anderson and Garavaso receive teaching awards; Gannon new alumni relations director; Class Notes; Campaign Minnesota gifts; Atheltics
Profile: UMM campus greets Rober Bruniks, new U of M president

Winter 2003
University Relations

inside: President Bruininks on campus; Tuition lowered for outstate students; Campus happenings; Distinguished Alumni Award; Class Notes; Gifts and scholarships; Athletics
Profile: "...a teaching prairie for generations"

Fall 2002
University Relations

Inside: Prairie Dedication; Distinguished Alumni Stories; Athletics Update; Campus News; Homecoming 2002
Profile: Heading for the goal

Spring 2002
University Relations

Inside: Stories about Nancy Carpenter and Andy Lopez kick off a series in this issue that showcases our award-winning faculty; Alumna Liz Morrison '74 profiles student honorees; "First Class" of Distinguished Alumni Awards; A game plan for intercollegiate athletics