University Of Minnesota Morris Community Partner Community Engagement Award Winner

Each year, the University of Minnesota Morris, in partnership with the Seed Coalition, an organization supporting community engagement on college campuses in Minnesota and Iowa, provides community engagement awards to three individuals who exemplify community-university partnerships. We’ve been highlighting the award winners for the 2024-25 academic year individually this week. Today we focus on the Community Partner Community Engagement Award winner, Anne Hennen-Barber.

The award recognizes a community-based partner or organization that has enhanced the quality of life in the community in meaningful and measurable ways and has engaged in the development of sustained, reciprocal partnerships with the college or university, thus enriching educational as well as community outcomes.

Anne Hennen-Barber has worked with multiple community-engaged learning courses to create expanded and new programming at the Morris Public Library. Additionally, she is a trusted community partner in the U of M Morris’s Tutoring, Reading, and Empowering Children (TREC) program.