{"id":171,"date":"2014-10-15T13:41:20","date_gmt":"2014-10-15T13:41:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/?page_id=171"},"modified":"2025-01-24T15:07:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-24T15:07:44","slug":"awards-and-recognition","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/grounds\/awards-and-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Awards and Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Tree Campus USA<\/h2>\n<p>The Tree Campus USA program recognizes colleges and universities that effectively manage their campus trees in coordinating with the community to establish and maintain and foster healthy urban forests, and engage their students in service-learning forestry projects. In order to remain such, the college or university must meet the following standards every year:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Standard 1 \u2013 Campus Advisory Committee<\/li>\n<li>Standard 2 \u2013 Campus Tree Care Plan<\/li>\n<li>Standard 3 \u2013 Campus Tree Program with Dedicated Annual Expenditures<\/li>\n<li>Standard 4 \u2013 Arbore Day Observance<\/li>\n<li>Standard 5 \u2013 Service Learning Project<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>St. Mary\u2019s College of Maryland has been recognized as a Tree Campus USA College by the Arbor Day Foundation since 2012.<\/p>\n<h3>Morton Arboretum Accreditation<\/h3>\n<p>St. Mary&#8217;s College earned its Morton Arboretum level II Accreditation.<br \/>\nWe offer a self-guided tour on campus with over 100 kinds of trees and woody plants identified and labeled.<\/p>\n<h3>PLANT Award<\/h3>\n<p>We have won the People Loving And Nurturing Trees (PLANT) Award in 2005 through 2011 and again 2013. This is a statewide award program that recognizes communities for their tree planting and tree care efforts.<\/p>\n<h3>Audubon Certified<\/h3>\n<p>St. Mary&#8217;s College of Maryland is a Certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuaries Campus through the Audubon International.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tree Campus USA The Tree Campus USA program recognizes colleges and universities that effectively manage their campus trees in coordinating with the community to establish and maintain and foster healthy urban forests, and engage their students in service-learning forestry projects. In order to remain such, the college or university must meet the following standards every<a class=\"tribe-events-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/grounds\/awards-and-recognition\/\" rel=\"bookmark\" > Find out more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-171","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/91"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":451,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/171\/revisions\/451"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.smcm.edu\/facilities\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}