Social Assessment

 Principal Investigators: M.Kaplowitz ,S.G.Witter and G.Habron

This component of the campus watershed initiative will rely on focus groups surveys,and ongoing community advisory panels to assess the values,beliefs and knowledge of various stakeholder groups,including undergraduate and graduate students, administrative personnel,faculty,staff and operations personnel, and citizens of neighboring communities.

This information will assist the project collaborators in setting research priorities,designing effective,targeted education and outreach programs and determining the most appropriate best management practices to implement as part of the overall watershed plan.The collected data will be linked to the information collected in the other project components in order to test various cause and effect relationships and research hypotheses addressing the concerns of the stake holders.

Manuscript

• Watershed Management From The Grounds Up: Towards Campus Sustainability Using A Soft Systems Approach in pdf format only.

To read various aspects and activities performed by this group click the links below

Reports

A number of surveys have been conducted by the Social Assessment Team to evaluate the effects on MSU-Water to read in detail click the titles below

Focus Group Script
This is a survey questionairre which includes the predetermined tasks for each specific service (Grounds, Architectural..etc)
click the title to find in details…….

Focus Group Summary
The Focus Group Summary gives an overview of various aspects of the services and is in form of draft learn more about it by going through the link

Factors Influencing Campus Sustainability and Watershed Management (Proposal)

Farms Focus Group Summary
Click the title to learn about the Farms, their perspective on MSU-Water, Red Cedar River Watershed Issues, there needs and priorities…….

Grounds Focus Group Summary and Transport Model DRAFT
Identify the concerns and problems associated with Grounds Focus Group, the causes and sources of and its explanation using Transport Model……...

Human Use Data

Transport Model Presentation
The Team Members of social Assessment group have developed a model to represent the link the activities and perspective of MSU operations units (Grounds, Farms) from the staff`s perspective which contributes to the MSU Watershed Plan.