|
Featured College Town
Eugene Oregon
University of Oregon
photo by fusco9800
|
Visit Our Sponsor | |
 The Newsstand is being sent to you as an introduction to the International Town & Gown Association. Members of the ITGA receive this twice-weekly publication and a monthly news letter highlighting college town news from around the world. As a college community leader, you are being offered this complimentary edition. Membership opportunities are available at www.town-gown.net. |
|
Penn State recognized as a Community Engagement university
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA - A Penn State geography professor guides his students as they live and work in a West Philadelphia neighborhood, undertaking research activities to improve health care in the community. A Penn State program shares valuable resources with farmers, helping them cut energy costs and increase revenues. Another University program offers training to child support enforcement officers, helping Pennsylvania become the highest performing
state in the nation for child support. These are just a few ways Penn State engages with communities.
For these efforts, and many more like them, Penn State has received the Community Engagement classification from the distinguished Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
According to the Carnegie Foundation, "The elective Community Engagement classification provides a way for institutions to describe their identity and commitments to community with a public and nationally recognizedclassification. It extends and refines the classification of colleges and universities."
|
Award nominations are due on January 30th, 2009 for Community-Campus Partnerships for Health Annual Award
The Community-Campus Partnerships for Health (CCPH) Annual Award recognizes exemplary partnerships between communities and higher educational institutions that build on each other's strengths to improve higher education, civic engagement, and the overall health of communities.
The intent of the award is to highlight the power and
potential of community-campus partnerships as a
strategy for social justice. The award recognizes
partnerships that are striving to achieve the systems and policy changes needed to overcome the root causes of health, social and economic inequalities.
Partnerships must nominate themselves and need not be members of CCPH. Partnerships that have applied in the past but did not receive the award or honorable mentions may re-submit. We welcome nominations from any country or nation.
|
Town asks Amherst College for
more cash
by By Scott Merzbach, Amherst Bulletin
AMHERST, MA - When Amherst College made a gift of $120,000 to the town last February, it helped Amherst deal with a $1.8 million deficit. Now, Town Manager Larry Shaffer, who is preparing a budget proposal due to the Select Board Jan. 16, is hoping the college will again make a significant financial contribution - as the town faces an even larger $2.7 million gap between expenses and revenues this year.
|
Concordia introduces off-campus
wireless
In September, Montreal's Concordia University became the first Canadian university to offer students
access to an outdoor wireless mesh network, which will allow students continuous Internet access
across campus and even in neighbourhoods off-campus where there is a high population of
students.
The network currently serves individuals within a one-square-kilometre radius of each campus and in
select districts. Ultimately, the network aims to offer efficient and inexpensive Internet service to all
Concordia students.
"There are two wireless systems," said Andrew McAusland, Concordia associate vice-president of
Instructional and Information Technology Services. "There's the wireless network that runs inside the
buildings and the one we've scattered a kilometre around the buildings and we continue to grow that
one out."
|
For students, part-time jobs mean pocket money, freedom,scheduling conflicts, and stress
By Cassandra Landry, The Portland PhoenixBOSTON, MA- There are two possible reasons Friday is the best day of the week for a college student. One, it signals time off from classes. Subscribers to this kind of Friday usually find themselves celebrating with a drink or two (or five) along with a visit to a fraternity house. The second kind of Friday, which an increasing number of students look forward to with a vengeance befitting spring break, is payday.
According to a 2008 Boston Redevelopment Authority (BRA) economic report, students
enrolled in Boston's numerous colleges make up 33 percent of the overall state collegiate
population. And what they earn often stays here: student spending (along with tuition)
contributes upwards of $4.8 billion annually to the city's economy. | |
|
|
|
The International Town & Gown Association is a non-profit organization that brings together leaders from college and university campuses and communities. Member representatives include Mayors, Elected Officials, City Administrators, Police Chiefs, Planners, University/College Presidents, Business Officers, Student Affairs Officers, Campus Planners, Student Housing Staff, Off-campus student staff, Parking & Transportation Officials, Students, Neighborhood Officials, Private Housing Developers, and many others sharing a unified town-gown vision. The ITGA acts as a communication, education, consulting and training resource for decision makers of colleges and college communities in areas of shared resources, programs, planning and project opportunities while addressing existing and potential conflicts.
Sincerely,
Chip Boyles
Executive Director |
|
|
