Download or read book Town and Gown Relations written by Roger L. Kemp and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a timely work on a very dynamic field. It provides more than 40 best practice case studies from nearly half the states in America, and discusses current and evolving trends in the relations between educational institutions and cities, towns and other municipalities. The schools include public and private universities and colleges, public school districts, and other local school systems. Case studies examine current and evolving state-of-the-art practices. Appendices include a glossary; regional, national and international resource directories; bibliographic sources; model agreements and documents; a state municipal league directory; a state public library directory; and a summary of distance learning resources. The handbook is indexed. The future of America's cities and schools depends upon the proper management of resources through the use of state-of-the-art town-gown planning practices. Both public officials and taxpayers, faculties, as well as students, benefit from town and gown best practices.
Download or read book The Optimal Town Gown Marriage written by Stephen M. Gavazzi and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-29 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Optimal Town-Gown Marriage book is dedicated to helping campus and community leaders better understand how the twin components of the "town" and the "gown" come together to determine the relative health and well-being of relationships between institutions of higher education and the communities in which they are located. Following a review of the emerging body of scholarly literature on town-gown relationships, the metaphor of marriage is introduced as a way of providing additional invaluable insights into the ways that campuses and communities interact with one another. A typology that borrows from the marital literature - using the terms harmonious, traditional, conflicted, and devitalized to describe the experiences of relationship partners - is presented as a new set of lenses for observing and making sense of town-gown associations. As well, case examples are used to flesh out the characteristics that help to shape these different relationship types, with special attention paid to the critical role that leaders play in directing campuses and communities toward more optimal ways of interacting with one another. The Optimal Town-Gown Marriage book additionally provides assistance to readers in taking the guesswork out of assessing the quality of town-gown relationships. The development and testing of the Optimal College Town Assessment (OCTA) is described, including a discussion of the quantitative and qualitative data generated by the pilot studies that have been conducted with university campuses and the communities that surround them. The items of the OCTA are included in the book to encourage readers to become more data-driven in their approach. All of the best data gathering efforts are for naught, however, if the information's reliability and validity is questioned. Therefore, a Town-Gown Mobilization Cycle is presented as part of a thorough explanation of the steps that campus and community leaders must take both before and after the data gathering phase of one's work in order to ensure that the integrity of the resulting database is beyond reproach. The confidential thoughts and reflections of four former university presidents and four city administrators are reported in The Optimal Town-Gown Marriage book as well. These campus and community leaders reported on the various ways that successful town-gown partnerships were forged as the result of their efforts to create and sustain a focus on mutually beneficial goals and objectives. Corroborating information is brought to bear on this discussion through the results of an interview conducted with E. Gordon Gee, arguably the most well-known university president in the nation. Having served as president at five different major institutions of higher learning - including two stints at The Ohio State University and West Virginia University - Dr. Gee has built up a wealth of insights in facilitating campus-community interactions that are unparalleled by any of his contemporaries. Finally, all of this information is pulled together in the book's presentation of The Ten Commandments of Town-Gown Relationships, a series of statements about what campus and community leaders must do together in order to build more optimal relationships with one another.
Download or read book Town and Gown written by Robert D. Parmet and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower written by Davarian L Baldwin and published by Bold Type Books. This book was released on 2021-03-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Across America, universities have become big businesses—and our cities their company towns. But there is a cost to those who live in their shadow. Urban universities play an outsized role in America’s cities. They bring diverse ideas and people together and they generate new innovations. But they also gentrify neighborhoods and exacerbate housing inequality in an effort to enrich their campuses and attract students. They maintain private police forces that target the Black and Latinx neighborhoods nearby. They become the primary employers, dictating labor practices and suppressing wages. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower takes readers from Hartford to Chicago and from Phoenix to Manhattan, revealing the increasingly parasitic relationship between universities and our cities. Through eye-opening conversations with city leaders, low-wage workers tending to students’ needs, and local activists fighting encroachment, scholar Davarian L. Baldwin makes clear who benefits from unchecked university power—and who is made vulnerable. In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower is a wake-up call to the reality that higher education is no longer the ubiquitous public good it was once thought to be. But as Baldwin shows, there is an alternative vision for urban life, one that necessitates a more equitable relationship between our cities and our universities.
Download or read book Town and Gown written by Rowland Parker and published by Cambridge : P. Stephens. This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Town and Gown written by Michael John Fox and published by . This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Towns written by James Fallows and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BEST SELLER • The basis for the HBO documentary now streaming on HBO Max For five years, James and Deborah Fallows have travelled across America in a single-engine prop airplane. Visiting dozens of towns, the America they saw is acutely conscious of its problems—from economic dislocation to the opioid scourge—but it is also crafting solutions, with a practical-minded determination at dramatic odds with the bitter paralysis of national politics. At times of dysfunction on a national level, reform possibilities have often arisen from the local level. The Fallowses describe America in the middle of one of these creative waves. Their view of the country is as complex and contradictory as America itself, but it also reflects the energy, the generosity and compassion, the dreams, and the determination of many who are in the midst of making things better. Our Towns is the story of their journey—and an account of a country busy remaking itself.
Download or read book Deliver Us from Mama written by Jessie Jones, Nicholas Hope, Jamie Wooten and published by Dramatists Play Service, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mama’s back—so chaos can’t be far behind! This rip-roaring, hilarious, high-octane race to beat the stork begins when Walker Sprunt’s wife, Hayley, goes into labor with their first child. The problem? She’s in Alabama, and he is in L.A., trying his best to get through a surprise visit from his meddling mother and his bossy big sister, Savannah, when he gets the call. Unfortunately, an air traffic controllers’ strike has just begun across the nation and Walker is at a loss for what to do. But his Mama, as usual, is not. And when she proclaims “Family Road Trip!,” Walker, from experience, knows disaster can’t be far behind. And is he ever right—as the clock ticks, Mama and her squabbling offspring jump in a car and sprint across two thousand miles of America and through its most unbelievably eccentric and colorful communities, and comedic chaos follows them everywhere. Despite experiencing zany alien encounters near Roswell, New Mexico, witnessing an uproarious last-minute wedding with off-their-rockers relatives, participating unwillingly in a high-speed police chase across Texas, surviving a churning river on a daiquiri party barge, and even escaping a wild New Orleans Mardi Gras night court, this exuberantly desperate trio drive on, determined to make it to Alabama before the new baby is born. And heaven help anyone who gets in Mama’s way, because she WILL be in Birmingham in time for the birth of her first grandchild! This flat-out-funny Jones Hope Wooten comedy will get your motors racing as it delivers miles of smiles and loads of laughs!
Download or read book The New American College Town written by James Martin and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Singer, Allison Starer, Wim Wiewel, Eugene L. Zdziarski II
Download or read book The Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill North Carolina written by Margaret Ruth Little and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Town and Gown Architecture of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, 1795-1975
Download or read book A Gown of Spanish Lace Women of the West Book 11 written by Janette Oke and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2006-08-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ariana loves her life as a schoolteacher in a little frontier town. But one evening after classes are done and she prepares to hurry home, her life changes in an instant when a band of rough outlaws abduct her and take her far away from all she has ever known. Trapped in a small shack, Ariana prays and waits, her emotions swinging between terror and boredom as days stretch into weeks. Still, the outlaws refuse to tell her why they've taken her or what they plan to do. Then the boss's son appears in the doorway of her cabin. He seems different from the others, but can she trust him? Will she ever again see her mother and father, the couple who lovingly adopted her and raised her as their own? Will she ever wear the beautiful wedding dress so carefully saved for her--her one remaining link to her birth parents?
Download or read book The University and Urban Revival written by Judith Rodin and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-12-04 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address the problems in their own backyards. Others attempted to develop better community relations, though changes were hard to sustain. Spurred by an unprecedented crime wave in 1996, University of Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin knew that the time for urgent action had arrived, and she set a new course of proactive community engagement for her university. Her dedication to the revitalization of West Philadelphia was guided by her role not only as president but also as a woman and a mother with a deep affection for her hometown. The goal was to build capacity back into a severely distressed inner-city neighborhood—educational capacity, retail capacity, quality-of-life capacity, and especially economic capacity—guided by the belief that "town and gown" could unite as one richly diverse community. Cities rely on their academic institutions as stable places of employment, cultural centers, civic partners, and concentrated populations of consumers for local business and services. And a competitive university demands a vibrant neighborhood to meet the needs of its faculty, staff, and students. In keeping with their mission, urban universities are uniquely positioned to lead their communities in revitalization efforts, yet this effort requires resolute persistence. During Rodin's administration (1994-2004), the Chronicle of Higher Education referred to Penn's progress as a "national model of constructive town-gown interaction and partnership." This book narrates the challenges, frustrations, and successes of Penn's campaign, and its prospects for long-term change.
Download or read book The Best 386 Colleges 2021 written by The Princeton Review and published by Princeton Review. This book was released on 2020-12-22 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Make sure you’re preparing with the most up-to-date materials! Look for The Princeton Review’s newest edition of this book, The Best 387 Colleges, 2022 (ISBN: 9780525570820, on-sale August 2021). Publisher's Note: Products purchased from third-party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality or authenticity, and may not include access to online tests or materials included with the original product.
Download or read book Town and Gown Relations written by Roger L. Kemp and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a timely work on a very dynamic field. It provides more than 40 best practice case studies from nearly half the states in America, and discusses current and evolving trends in the relations between educational institutions and cities, towns and other municipalities. The schools include public and private universities and colleges, public school districts, and other local school systems. Case studies examine current and evolving state-of-the-art practices. Appendices include a glossary; regional, national and international resource directories; bibliographic sources; model agreements and documents; a state municipal league directory; a state public library directory; and a summary of distance learning resources. The handbook is indexed. The future of America's cities and schools depends upon the proper management of resources through the use of state-of-the-art town-gown planning practices. Both public officials and taxpayers, faculties, as well as students, benefit from town and gown best practices.
Download or read book Town and Gown written by Robert D. Parmet and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Town and Gown is the story of the birth in the 1960s and survival through the 1970s of an inner city college, York College of the City University of New York, in Jamaica, Queens. Created as a liberal arts college to provide increased access to minority students, it was placed in a mainly minority neighborhood, where it received exceptionally strong support from a middle class African American community seeking access to quality higher education for its children and a business community striving to overcome the effects of "white flight." Operating in rented quarters without a permanent campus and regarded as academically illegitimate owing to its location, the college was regarded as expendable in hard times. From 1971 to 1979 critics both inside and outside of the City University, such as Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor Edward Koch, questioned the school's right to exist, especially during the New York City and State Fiscal Crisis of 1975 and 1976. Undaunted, the college and its diverse supporters rallied and won. An amazing groundswell of support from Southeast Queens, and intense political pressure, saved it. Though the fight was often bitter, York College and Jamaica would not be denied. The college moved onto its permanent campus as a new Jamaica Center emerged.
Download or read book town and gown written by and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on with total page 66 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Oxford Town and Gown written by Peter Collison and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2011-02-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intriguing look at how universities affect the communities around them, comparing Oxford to the university towns of York and Reading.
