A growing number of colleges and universities have come to recognize the role and responsibilities they have in the economic and social fabric of their surrounding communities and regions as anchor institutions. Yet, the conditions of urban communities surrounding even the most engaged universities--including under-resourced public schools,…

Can verse mediate between the educational institution and the wider community of which it is a part? Utilising a case study of a specific taught module, this essay considers whether the performance of poetry as an experiential learning activity has a role to play in the emerging concept of the university as an anchor institution, a term that…

Anchor movements rest on the premise that people- and place-based initiatives can be mutually reinforcing. The community development movement, however, has been haunted for years by the people-place dilemma -- the idea that efforts to help people harm efforts to uplift places and vice versa. Most of the literature on the anchor strategy has…

In Turkey, the social and economic changes of the past couple of decades have facilitated a neoliberal reconstruction of the city and a concomitant reorganisation of its educational spaces. The interaction between the urban space economy and school spaces has been documented by various studies, most of which point to the interplay between…

This study profiles tutoring programs that empower urban youth within the Regional Institute of Tutorial Education (RITE), a community collaborative of universities, youth agencies, community service organizations, and school districts. Representative members of RITE detail how they address shared urban problems of academic deficits, school…

Record of the events and decisions surrounding the creation of the Medical College in Newark which illustates what may happen "when the poor and the alienated confront the system with a series of demands. This case indicates that "the Model Cities Program, in conjunction with urban renewal and other federal programs, can be one of the mechanisms…

The black college can best serve its predominantly urban minority community by addressing itself to the problems of the city and developing viable urban related programs. Several types of program approaches and curriculum alterations are discussed from a functional perspective, based on the realities of present resources and future societal needs.…

How an urban university, the University of Portland, gave leadership and direction in solution of a problem of a neighbor high school is described. (Editor/PG)

Urban problems are enormously varied and they are related to every field of teaching and research in universities. There are few areas of liberal and professional training where the interests of the university and the needs of the city do not interrelate. It was to help answer these problems that the Urban Involvement of Higher Education…

At the University of Delaware, urban community service is an integral part of the curriculum. (PG)

The University Urban Interface Program (UUIP) at the University of Pittsburgh provides a major challenge to the university. Through study and research of various issues, it is the hope of the project directors that they will be able to assist other interested institutions in preparing themselves to respond and adapt to the challenges of urban…

There is now an enormous communications belt between the academic world and government. The whole thrust of the new direction in federal funding of urban programs is to give people with bad housing and state and local governments with immoveable problems the cash they need to back up their particular priorities in the marketplace. This means…

This report is the last in a series of four quarterly progress reports covering Phase III of the University-Urban Interface Program. Its content is concentrated on events and research activities in the five priority areas during the period April-June, 1972. An introductory section briefly redefines these areas: 1) minority and community services;…