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5th Annual Best Practices in Building University/City Relations Conference
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June 1-3, 2010
Ames, Iowa
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Simple Community is a book on how college sports, that often serves as the "front porch" of the university at which the community gathers, is author Rich Luker's ideal link between the people who want to experience community and the companies who have the resources to provide it.
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-Sustainable Partnerships For The Future-
Save the Date: June 1-3, 2010
The 5th Annual Best Practices in Building University/City Relations Conference brought to you by the International Town & Gown Association comes to the City of Ames, Iowa and Iowa State University. The Call for Presentations is now open, proposals are being accepted for sessions. Submissions must be received on or before January 15th, 2010
The News Stand 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. Explore membership opportunities at www.town-gown.net to help keep these communication channels open to all.
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COLLEGE TOWN LEADERSHIP
New York Times Shines Light On Ups And Downs With Service Learning In Town Gown Relations Amherst, MA-The New York Times article highlights Service Learning and reports on success in Amherst. Medina Lichtenstein used to dread the beginning of the school year, when students from colleges and universities around Holyoke, Mass., would descend on her tiny community organization, Enlace de Familias. This year, Ms. Medina Lichtenstein feels better about service learning. For their information technology capstone course at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, two students created a Web site and database management system that allow Ms. Medina Lichtenstein to complete in one day an annual report that used to take a week. Another two students embarked on an assessment of Enlace's information technology system with the aim of making it better. Ms. Medina Lichtenstein's experiences illustrate the good and the bad of service learning, loosely defined as community service that supplements and enhances what students learn in a classroom. This town/gown divide is explored in "The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning," published last summer by Temple University Press and mostly written by students at the University of Wisconsin who, as part of a research seminar, interviewed staff members of 64 nonprofit organizations.
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BUDGETS & ECONOMY
All Hands On Deck For 2010 Census And Universities And Students Doing Their Part To Collect Data
State College, PA -The Centredaily.com reports the 2010 census is on the way in March and April with a sales pitch as well as a civic duty, and university towns like State College are typically a tough sell. "Hard to count" is the way the U.S. Census Bureau classifies communities with a lot of college students. The college population segment is fourth in a seven-level ranking that calls "advantaged homeowners" the least hard to count and at the other end puts the economically disadvantaged with the highest poverty. Thousands of university students come and go. Students from foreign countries may not realize they're expected to be counted too. And Penn State's last class of the semester is April 30, a key time in the census-taking process.
Census Data Impacts Government Distributions
Fort Morgan, CO-The Times describes the plan and importance of the 2010 census form. The form is one of the shortest in history with only 10 basic questions. College students who live away from their family home should fill out a form for where they live on or off campus. Those who have more than one home should fill out the form with the address they live at most of the time. Census forms will go out to every residence in the U.S. during March through the U.S. Postal Service. The federal government distributes more than $400 billion annually to state, local and tribal governments based on the census data.
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Princeton, NJ
Alcohol Coalition Committee Blog at Princeton University Poses Sustainability Questions Addressing High Risk Drinking
By Amy Campbell on December 15, 2009 4:26 PM
Who is responsible for sustaining the long term effort to address high risk drinking? What is the responsibility of the university/college community to maintain an effort especially when 25% of the undergraduate population graduates each year and 25% of the undergraduates are new to the college/university? Comments |
PLANNING & HOUSING
Tulane To Unveil $1.5 Million Phase of Pedestrian MallNew Orleans,LA-The Times-Picayune describes phase of Tulanes sustainability efforts. For nearly eight months, most of McAlister Drive, the only street on which cars can cross the Tulane University campus from Freret Street to Willow Street, has been off limits, blocked by barriers and temporary fences surrounding workers and heavy equipment. Sometime this month, the barricades are scheduled to come down, and the machinery will be gone. But cars will not return to the thoroughfare. which will become pedestrian-only McAlister Place, extending from a plaza at Freret to Drill Road, which runs along the quad in front of McAlister Auditorium. The 80 parking spaces that had lined the road will be replaced by planters flanking the 24-foot-wide asphalt path, which will be shaded by the already-in-place canopy of live oaks. The idea behind the change is to increase pedestrian activity on this part of the campus by giving people more space in which to roam safely, university architect Collette Creppell said. "You won't be navigating around vehicles, and you won't have vehicles blocking your view."
Oberlin Invited To Join The Clinton Climate Initiative
Oberlin-OH The Chronicle Telegram announced Oberlin has been invited to become the 18th city in the world to join the Clinton Climate Initiative, which has a goal of reducing the impact of urban areas on global warming.City Council President David Sonner said he is excited about the prospect of Oberlin joining the effort. The city is examining a memorandum of understanding.There are no membership dues, and Sonner said Oberlin should be able to benefit from the association with the climate group, which is part of the William J. Clinton Foundation."There will be companies, institutes, philanthropies eager to participate and help Oberlin become a model for a post-carbon economy and society," Sonner said.Other cities involved in the effort include San Francisco; Destiny, Fla.; London; Toronto; Melbourne; Sydney, Australia; Panama City, Panama; Seoul, South Korea; and Stockholm, Sweden. Oberlin made headlines in its effort to become carbon-neutral when it was one of a handful of communities to opt out of a utility's plan to build a new coal-fired electrical plant on the Ohio River. The coal-fired plant has since been dropped in favor of a plant fueled by natural gas.
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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.
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Kim Griffo
Executive Director
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