Explores how universities and colleges can provide efficient parking and related transportation through careful analysis of current and future parking requirements in light of other institutional building plans, including the institution's master plan. Discussions include new construction versus facility renovations, an alternative to building…

Student Nurses in action is an interdisciplinary academic-service-research partnership model that brings health care to urban, suburban, and rural communities. A 5-year evaluation gave the program excellent ratings for cost-effectiveness, student experience, and quality of care. (SK)

Urges compositionists to reframe Writing across the Curriculum (WAC) to reach beyond university boundaries. Reviews calls for an expanded conception of WAC, describes a program that carries writing instruction and literacy research beyond university boundaries, and suggests problems and benefits that may accompany this change of orientation for…

Argues that schools should use a planned communications program to allay fears brought on by asbestos removal. Offers tips on informing the public, such as developing an informative handbook and distributing flyers. Claims that special meetings offer the opportunity to hand out materials and answer questions. (RJM)

At southwest Virginia's new Appalachian School of Law, students volunteer 25 hours each semester on community service projects. Projects fall into two categories: pure service by sharing a skill or interest, and service that draws on legal skills, such as presenting legal seminars to senior citizens' groups or conducting conflict resolution…

Assesses the establishment and development of science parks in the United Kingdom from the universities' perspective. Discusses their impact on the processes of invention, innovation, technology transfer, commercialization, and enterprise and outlines strategies available to universities for involvement in science park development. (Contains 22…

Explains how schools that share their facilities with the public can strengthen bonds with the neighborhoods they serve. Illustrates how a high school in Media, Ohio, successfully expanded its facilities to cultivate a relationship with the surrounding community. (GR)

Evaluates claim of the "shrinking college president" and suggests a revised interpretation: modern presidents focus on their institutions rather than on higher education in general, by way of contrast to earlier presidents, and they spend more time on campus rather than on general societal concerns. That difference, however, appears to be…

Describes how the University of Pennsylvania embraced the idea that urban institutions have an obligation to help sustain their surrounding communities. Penn's investment of intellectual, financial, and social capital not only created a more vibrant West Philadelphia, but also strengthened town-gown bonds and revived a spirit of activism on…

This paper, part two of a two-part article, presents conceptual and practice issues on the use of empirically supported interventions in school and community settings. Discusses the essential practice issues, given the dual goal of advancing research in empirically supported interventions and of producing a knowledge base that has direct meaning…

Argues that the university has increasingly become an isolated, isolating culture, a bureaucracy of specialized disciplines producing knowledge painstakingly sequestered from the lived world. Argues that composition, as the anti-discipline, has the chance to re-root that stranded knowledge in the lived worlds, and play a part in the rebirth of the…

Describes the "NU Directions" program of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 1 of 10 programs administered by the American Medical Association to use campus-community coalitions and a comprehensive approach to crate change and reduce collegiate high-risk drinking. Discusses the challenges, benefits, and lessons learned in creating this…

Describes problems encountered in the development of a retail complex and garage by Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida. The college had owned the property since 1961, but faced many obstacles, including opposition by other developers and landowners, when the development process began. Discusses some of the community relations difficulties and…

Provides examples of academic institutions becoming catalysts in revitalizing downtown areas while also providing themselves with new facilities. How these projects have been mutually beneficial to both school and community is highlighted. (GR)

The engaged university expands the concept of service learning by redesigning teaching, research, and service to include productive community involvement. The partnership between Auburn University's School of Nursing and a local housing authority illustrates benefits of engagement for students and faculty in community-based nursing education.…