The Roles of Foundations and Universities in Redevelopment Planning
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https://doi.org/10.18060/22342Keywords:
planning; public housing; resident engagement; qualitativeAbstract
Laurie A. Walker, the 2017 recipient of the Ernest A. Lynton Award for the Scholarship of Engagement, is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Montana. Together with her co-author, Dr. Jean F. East, Professor in the Graduate School of Social Work at the University of Denver, they have raised, in this piece, an important and insightful critical lens on the implications of higher education institutions’ “engagement” with their local communities. It looks deeply into the implications of the “blind spot” identified by Baldwin (2017), which “comes largely from the assumption that higher education, while hypnotized by corporate power, is still an inherent public good, most clearly marked by its tax-exempt status for providing services that would otherwise come from the government.” They examine how campuses may be deeply involved in the local urban area and also advancing a self-interest that may not be a public interest – through gentrification, and through what Baldwin calls “noneducational investments in real estate, policing, and labor” that “can carry negative consequences for neighborhoods of color.” Walker and East are asking us to more closely examine how campuses can get so involved in the cities of which they are a part as to be a dominant force that does not advance the public good, but the good of the campus. This is a dilemma and a question that many of the CUMU member campuses have already faced or may face in the coming years, and goes to the heart of the public good of higher education in a neoliberal age.
—John Saltmarsh, University of Massachusetts, Boston
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Birch, E., Perry, D. C., Taylor, H. L., Jr. (2013, June). Universities as anchor institutions. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 17(3), 7-13. Retrieved from http://openjournals.libs.uga.edu/index.php/jheoe/article/view/1035/680
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Glickman, N. J. & Servon, L. J. (1998). More than bricks and sticks: Five components of community development corporation capacity. New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Urban Policy Research.
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Mazany, T. & Perry, D.C. (2014). Here for Good: Community Foundations and the Changes of the 21st Century. Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group: New York.
Metropolitan State University of Denver. (2016). Regency Athletic Complex. Retrieved from http://roadrunnersathletics.com/facilities/?id=1.
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Pendergast, A. (2013c). Auraria as it used to be: Photos from a long-gone neighborhood. Retrieved from http://www.westword.com/news/auraria-as-it-used-to-be-photos-from-a-long-gone-neighborhood-5828217.
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Perry, D. C., Wiewel, W., & Menendez, C. (2009, July). The university’s role in urban development: From enclave to anchor institution. Lincoln Institute of Land Policy. Retrieved from https://www.lincolninst.edu/publications/articles/universitys-role-urban-development
Rapson, R. (2008). Positioning your university for investment: The university and urban renewal. Retrieved from https://kresge.org/library/positioning-your-university-investment-university-and-urban-renewal.
Roberts, M. (2016). Sun Valley around Mile High Stadium. Retrieved from http://www.westword.com/news/inside-351-million-plus-plan-to-revitalize-sun-valley-around-mile-high-stadium-8592047.
Rutheiser, C. (2013). The anchor dashboard at the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Democracy Collaborative. Retrieved from http://democracycollaborative.org/ content/anchor-dashboard-department-housing-and-urban-development.
Sites, W. Chaskin, R. J., & Parks, V. (2007). Reframing community practice for the 21st Century: Multiple traditions, multiple challenges. Journal of Urban Affairs, 29(5), 519-541. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9906.2007.00363.x
Squires, G. D. (1989). Unequal partnerships: The political economy of urban redevelopment in postwar America. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press.
The Democracy Collaborative of the University of Maryland. (2013). The anchor dashboard: Aligning institutional practice to meet low-income community needs. Retrieved from http://www.aecf.org/resources/the-anchor-dashboard-1/
Turner, M. A., Edelman, P., Poethig, E., Aron, L., Rogers, M., & Lowenstein, C. (2014). Tackling persistent poverty in distressed urban neighborhoods: History, principles, and strategies for philanthropic investment. Retrieved from https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/22761/413179-tackling-persistent-poverty-in-distressed-urban-neighborhoods.pdf
United States Environmental Protection Agency. (2016). Teaming up to make a visible difference in Sun Valley, Colorado. Retrieved from https://www.epa.gov/healthresearch/teaming-make-visible-difference-sun-valley-co.
Vaccarelli, J. (2016). Denver’s Sun Valley neighborhood to receive $30 million HUD grant. Retrieved from http://www.denverpost.com/2016/12/07/denver-sun-valley-neighborhood-hud-grant/.
Walker, L. A. & East, J. F. (2014). The benefits of including engaged residents and professionals in low-income neighborhood redevelopment planning processes. Journal of Community Practice, 22(3), 342-364. https://doi.org/10.1080/10705422.2014.929063
Wilson, W. J. (1996). When work disappears: The world of the new urban poor. New York: Alfred A. Knopf Press.
Yates, G. & Saasta, T. (2013). The why and how of engaging residents for change. National Civic Review, 102(3), 35-41. https://doi.org/10.1002/ncr.21138
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