Conference Presentations

Equitable practice Educated Landlord and Tenant Education

Equitable practice: Educated Landlord and Tenant Education

Equitable practice: Educated Landlord and Tenant Education

This session will share insights and recommendations gained through quantitative dissertation research focused on off-campus students. Specifically, the presenter examined the relationship between off-campus students’ sense of belonging and their behavioral choices in a college-town context.

This presentation identifies free online resources and opportunities for you to create thoughtful and accessible content and enhance your outreach.

In Athens-Clarke County, the University of Georgia, county government and community have expanded upon existing initiatives and found success in enhancing conversations and events that bring people together, including student/elected official breakfasts, downtown-by-day events, hosting a polling place on campus and making construction project discussions engaging and worthwhile endeavors. 

The Town of Wolfville and Acadia University created a series of background research papers on contemporary issues and conflicts and gathered experts together at a symposium on housing issues so that planning documents would be informed by a variety of viewpoints and proposed solutions.

This session begins with a comparison and contrast of the data gathered from campus and community participants in each pilot site. Representatives from each town-gown relationship then describe how this quantitative and qualitative information was used to develop a tailored alcohol prevention plan.

Finding a way to reach a fair economic plan between cities and nonprofits.

Far Beyond: COVID-19 DONATION DRIVE: CAMPUS & COMMUNITY
COME TOGETHER

The session discusses the key highlights from the UKTGA Conference and provide an overview of strategic approaches developed by British based University Towns and Cities. 

This presentation will highlight the innovative public/private partnership that is a vital component of this program, and discuss how the LFNW program provides resources for organizational and event related sustainability initiatives.

Forward Together: How cities and universities can work together for real change

This session will highlight the importance of a strong and united partnership between campus and local fire officials and some tips on how to secure that positive relationship.

Getting new students positively involved in the local neighborhoods.

Friday the 13th A Canadian Case Study on Communications and an Integrated Community Response in the Time of Covid 19

While home to almost 38,000 students and employing almost 10,000 faculty and staff, College Park has never developed into a vibrant college town. To address this, the University of Maryland and the City of College Park have formed a powerful working alliance to revitalize College Park and the Route 1 commercial corridor.

Many of Chicago’s universities have boldly embraced the national movement to introduce innovation and entrepreneurship into curricula and to realize the results by developing spaces to support start-up companies from students, faculty and the broader community. These initiatives have gained the support of Chicago’s mayors, the business leadership of the city, and state and federal government.

The economic downturn of 2007 created unique housing opportunities in the sleepy bedroom community surrounding Stony Brook University. Unscrupulous landlords illegally converted 3 and 4 bedroom homes into unsafe rooming houses, renting to 8-10 students each semester. Three years later, community leaders sent a letter in December thanking Stony Brook for its responsiveness.

In preparing a Request for Qualifications for a major downtown project, the city of Rock Hill., S.C., successfully employed a range of strategies that increased the number and caliber of developers who responded – as well as their investment in pursuing the project and producing results

This session will highlight the integrated planning process for University of Tennessee Health Science Center, focus on community engagement, and reveal the resulting new partnerships and place-based implementation strategies in the Memphis Medical Center.

Learn best practices in communicating methods for involving constituents and students in positive outreach for improving town gown relations.

Universities and their communities are often positioned as opponents in planning and neighborhood life issues. Georgetown University has had a contentious history with its community, which involved decades of litigation over the university’s campus plans. The presentation will provide lessons for university staff in community relations, student affairs, or campus planning, and for community and civic leaders.

From Riots to Quiet Streets.

This session highlights the new and evolving public private partnership planning process for University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

William Georges, a consultant to both major league and college sports on fan conduct and alcohol issues, will lead a discussion about alcohol use and misuse before, during and after college sporting events, and the experience of colleges that have introduced alcohol sales into their stadia. 

This session will discuss the best practices of implementing the model while highlighting Ohio State University’s program. Audience members will be exposed to a framework that supports students, senior citizens, alumni affairs and local non-profits.

14 members of the Consortium of Universities of the Washington Metropolitan Area entered a partnership which led to Washington, DC becoming one of 29 cities worldwide focused on an improving its regional export economy in order to enhance overall regional growth.

The Good Neighbor initiative’s primary goal is to enhance the quality of life for both permanent and student residents of the community by addressing the situations that occur, facilitating discussions to remove any barriers that are present, and fostering positive neighborhood relationships among all participants.

This session will outline the history and development of the partnership; describe its programs and activities; highlight how the partnership works and its outcomes and impacts; and define and demonstrate best practices for school-university partnerships.

A panel will describe alcohol prevention programming at three major US universities that is supported by the Great Plays Grant Program funded by brewer MillerCoors, which seeks to encourage the use of evidence-based practices while also promoting the development and testing of new, innovative ideas.

Sustainable Affordable Housing Solutions Through Community-University-Industry Collaboration

GreenBuild & the Energy+ Program: Sustainable Affordable Housing Solutions Through Community-University-Industry Collaboration

Attend this session and learn strategies for integrating neighborhood development and master planning.

Gun Girl:

Handout for "Bridging Campus and Community Together Through Entrepreneurial Spirit"

This session explores the resources which allow cities and universities to obtain data about themselves. We will also see how this data can be further processed, analyzed, and translated into bylaws, legislation, and regulations, as well as reveal discrimination and negligence.

Anchor Institution Responses to COVID 19

Considerations on the legalization of marijuana in Colorado.

A Transformation

For twelve years, Georgetown University and KEYS for the Homeless have partnered to collect over 28 tons of donated goods each spring from students and community members who want to make a difference to families living in poverty in the DC region.

This session will take you through the journey that University of Sussex have made out into the communities that surround their campus, from a University Housing perspective.

Learn how a campus University in the UK opened an off-campus community base to bring local community groups together at a time when the university was expanding from 13,000 to 18,000 students in a densely populated beachside city.