DOCUMENT RESUME ED 446 455 HE 032 777 TITLE University-Community Partnerships: Current Practices. Volume II INSTITUTION Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. Office of University Partnerships.; Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC. Office of Policy Development and Research. PUB DATE 1996-10-00 NOTE 228p.; For Volume III, see HE 032 778. AVAILABLE FROM HUD USER, P.O. Box 6091, Rockville, MD 20849-6091 ($5). Tel: 800-245-2691 (Toll Free). For full text: http://www.oup.org/pubs/curentp 2/toc.html. PUB TYPE Reference Materials - Directories/Catalogs (132) Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC10 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Adult Education; Community Services; Educational Research; Higher Education; Outreach Programs; *Partnerships in Education; *School Community Programs; *School Community Relationship; Service Learning; Student Participation; Student Volunteers; Teacher Participation ABSTRACT This publication highlights the work of institutions of higher education and their surrounding communities throughout the United States. These institutions are responding to the responsibilities and possibilities of their educational and social missions by mobilizing their resources in ways that benefit the institutions and the communities, creating partnerships that take advantage of their collective resources. In this listing of schools and programs, institutions are grouped according to the following categories: service learning; service provision; faculty involvement; student volunteerism; community in the classroom; applied research; and major institutional change. For each listing, the name of the institution, the program, and the president are presented, followed by a brief description of the program. An index of contact information is included. (SM) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. HE University-Community Partnerships: Current Practices Volume II October 1996 Last Revised 3/25/99 I U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Office of Policy Development and Research Office of University Partnerships U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION Office of Educational Research and Improvement EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) slit This document has been reproduced as ('g- received from the person or organization originating it. Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality. 2 Points of view or opinions stated in this document do not necessarily represent BEST COPY AVAILABLE official OERI position or policy. University-Community Partnerships: Current Practices, Volume II wysiwyg://11/http://www.oup.org/pubs/curentp_2/toc.html HUD HOME OUP HOME SEARCH SUGGESTION BOX University-Community Partnerships: Current Practices Volume II TOPICS about oup October 1996 in the nevus TABLE OF CONTENTS funding scholarly activities Foreword outreach publications Introduction univers%i chat Service Learning conferences/meetings phone book Service Provision Faculty Involvement Student Volunteerism Community in the Classroom Applied Research Major Institutional Change Contact Index Copies of the University-Community Partnerships: Current Practices, Volume II can be ordered for $5.00 each from HUD USER. Request the document by title and number and send your order with check or money order payable to HUD USER to: HUD USER P.O. Box 6091 Rockville, MD 20849-6091 Credit card orders can be placed by calling 1-800-245-2691, or 1-800-483-2209 (TDD). Last revised: 3/25/1999 3 1 of 1 3/1/00 10:07 AM Foreword wysiwyg://13/hdp://www.oup.org/pubs/curentp_2/foreword.htrni HUD HOME OUP HOME SEARCH SUGGESTION BOX Foreword TOPICS about oup An increasing number of universities, colleges, and community colleges 'across the country are taking on the complex challenges facing in the nevus American communities, developing partnerships with other local funding institutions and groups to marshall ideas and resources that can help scholarly activities revitalize neighborhoods and create opportunities citywide. Universities, outreach colleges, and community colleges are uniquely positioned to fulfill this publications vital mission: They are major employers, centers of culture and education, investors, real estate developers, centers of applied universi4 chat technology, and concentrations of energetic and creative people. This conferences/meetings publication, like its predecessor, highlights numerous partnerships that phone book institutions of higher education have forged with their communities to mobilize their collective resources for the benefit of both. These partnerships exemplify the exciting possibilities nurtured by the commitment of these institutions to fulfilling both their educational and social responsibilities in the community. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and its Office of University Partnerships applaud the inventiveness and spirit of these universities, colleges, and community colleges, and hope their innovative examples will spur the expansion or initiation of similar partnerships across the Nation. Michael A. Stegman Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research Contents Next Last revised: 3/25/1999 4 1 of 1 3/1/00 10:08 AM Introduction wysiwyg://16/http://www.oup.org/pubs/curentp_2/intro.html HUD HOME OUP HOME SEARCH SUGGESTION BOX Introduction TOPICS about oup UNIVERSITY-COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS: MEETING THE URBAN CHALLENGE in the news funding University-Community Partnerships: Current Practices, Volume II scholarly activities celebrates the activities of 225 universities, colleges, and community outreach colleges that are making their communities better places to live, work, publications and learn. These institutions are making a difference in their communities through 328 creative partnerships with local governments, universiN chat community-based organizations, school districts, and public housing conferences/meetings authorities. This volume of Current Practices is considerably larger than phone book the 1995 compilation, with 76 more projects being recognized by HUD s Office of University Partnerships (OUP). This increase in initiatives demonstrates the growing responsibility universities and colleges are taking to help improve their communities. As the profiles in this report so amply demonstrate, universities, colleges, and community colleges are increasingly using their tremendous physical, economic, and intellectual resources in communities large and small in many innovative ways. They are working to facilitate economic development, provide much-needed social services, team with public schools, offer technical assistance to community-based organizations, target their research to meeting community needs, and create opportunities for faculty, students, and community residents to learn from one another. To help and encourage institutions of higher education to undertake such activities, Secretary Henry G. Cisneros established the Office of University Partnerships in 1994. OUP will continue to recognize and support universities and colleges as they forge and expand partnerships that address urban problems, from the neighborhood level to citywide. By serving as role models for other institutions of higher education, the partnerships illustrated in this second edition of Current Practices lay the foundation for future university-community collaborations across the Nation. Indeed, many institutions highlighted in the first Current Practices have taken their partnership activities to new levels of involvement. For example, some colleges and universities are involved in their local Empowerment Zone/Enterprise Community or in HOPE VI public housing revitalization activities. Others have expanded an earlier partnership with a single organization, such as a school district or public housing development, to take on more comprehensive neighborhood activities. Still others have initiated urban community service programs with students and faculty. Based on information provided by contributing universities, colleges, and community colleges, the program profiles that follow have been assigned to categories that most closely represent the programs' roles within their communities, especially in cases where the programs contain elements that overlap categories. The range of models represented by the profiles can serve to spur widespread replication, as these and other institutions grapple with the common as well as unique challenges facing their individual communities. Previous Contents Next 1 of 2 3/1/00 10:38 AM Introduction wysiwyg://16/http://www.oup.org/pubs/curentp_2/intro.html Last revisea: sizoi luau 2 of 2 3/1/00 10:38 AM Service Learning wysiwyg://19/http://www.oup.org/pubs/curentp_2/leam.html HUD HOME OUP HOME SEARCH SUGGESTION BOX Service Learning TOPICS about oup Alderson-Broaddus School Business Partnership in the news College funding This partnership between scholarly activities Stephen E. Markwood, Alderson-Broaddus College in Philippi, President outreach West Virginia, and the local Barbour publications County schools serves approximately College Hill 3,000 students in grades K-12. The university chat Philippi, WV 26416 collaboration is an effort to improve conferences/meetings both partners' programs of study, to phone book provide curriculums in needed areas within the local school system, and to assist the schools in the development of technology. Since the partnership was initiated, Alderson-Broaddus students have worked on developing and implementing the school system's computer technology