UCLA Student Housing Master Plan 2007-2017
2007, USA
The plan outlines a set of long-term strategic aspirations for the housing program at UCLA. The updated Master Plan is intended to directly link housing program goals to institutional objectives in support of the campus academic mission.
The Master Plan acknowledges the importance of on-campus housing to support undergraduate students during their transition to campus, and to provide much-needed academic, leadership, and personal growth experiences to support retention and to enrich the quality of the undergraduate experience at UCLA.(Go to UCLA Plan) |
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SUN: Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods
University-Community Partnerships At Work
USA
Appearances by:
Dr. John Gilderbloom, Founder & President of S.U.N.
Jerry Abramson, Mayor of Louisville, Kentucky
Dr. Derek Bok, Former President Harvard
Henry Cisneros, Former Secretary of H.U.D.
Former President Bill Clinton
Marilyn Melkonian, Founder and President of Telesis
Sam Watkins, Louisville Central Development Corporation
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Interim Planning Guidance on Purpose Built Student Housing
Newcastle, UK
Nov 2007
Excerpt section 1.2 Pros and Cons of Purpose Built Student Accommodation
Impact upon Communities
1.21 As set out in the above, the city’s universities and college and the associated student population have an important role in the city and in the region.
1.22 There are many positive factors allied to a student population. The Studentification Report by Universities UK3 identifies benefits such as prestige and recognition, increased spending in the local economy, life long learning opportunities and spin off companies. A study by Bridging NewcatsleGateshead4 refers to the values of a student population at a more local level including adding to the vitality of urban areas, supporting services for the benefit of the whole community and being a stimulus for rising house prices and investment into older properties that would potentially otherwise be in decline.
1.23 Whilst the numbers and concentrations of students and shared housing in certain parts of the city can bring many benefits, they can also place pressures on the physical and social infrastructure of an area. The emerging SPD on Shared Housing and accompanying Sustainability Appraisal Report will detail these pressures and day to day issues including turnover of properties, anti–social behaviour and marginalisation of long standing communities. Purpose built student accommodation such as traditional halls of residence and more recent flatted developments have less impact on the private housing market and on the structure of communities than shared housing. However, purpose built schemes do bring large numbers of students into a small area. This can lead to significant disturbance on occasions, depending on access routes and proximity to neighbouring housing in particular.
Destudentifcation
1.24 It is accepted that there is a balance to be struck between purpose-built student housing provision and the private rented sector. In recent research by Darren Smith at Brighton University, a new phenomenon branded ‘destudentification’ is identified. The term is used to explain the movement of students away from certain areas from the private rented sector into purpose built accommodation. In certain cities, including Leeds, there is some emerging evidence of landlords selling on properties to the market as students move to or stay longer in purpose built accommodation. This could potentially make more accommodation available to families and other groups.
1.25 This movement could be positive in assisting Newcastle to achieve the objective of rebalancing communities, where there are existing high concentrations of students. Conversely as Smith’s research highlights, properties put up for sale by landlords will not automatically bring families back into areas. Families may not locate to areas in which they feel overwhelmed by student households. The cost of reverting Houses in Multiple Occupation (HMOs) back to family style accommodation may also be considerable and additional to high house prices in the area. His research does however suggest that there are a number of
options for intervention and facilitating reuse of such properties. The City Council will set out its approach to addressing the issue in a forthcoming Empty Homes Action Plan (Go to Report) |
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New Times Demand New Scholarship II: Research Universities and Civic Engagement — Opportunities and Challenges
Dec 2007, USA
The report focuses on opportunities and challenges in four areas critical to expanding and institutionalizing civic engagement within research universities:
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Engaged scholarship (research in any field that partners university scholarly resources with those in the public and private sectors to enrich knowledge, address and help solve critical societal issues, and contribute to the public good).
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Scholarship focused on civic and community engagement (research focused on civic participation in public life, including participation by engaged scholars, and on the impact of this work on all constituencies).
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Educating students for civic and community engagement (what students need to know and be able to do as active, effective citizens of a diverse democracy).
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Advancing civic engagement within and across research universities (challenges to and effective strategies for institutionalizing civic engagement within a research university context).
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University of Leeds Community Strategy
Dec 07
The University of Leeds was the first Higher Education Institution to launch a community strategy in 2000 and in 2007 has developed a new five year strategy to 2012 after extensive consultation with the local community. The University recognises that whilst the City benefits enormously from the University and its students there are specific areas in Leeds that have seen a fundamental shift in population and a loss of community. The University has produced an action plan under three key themes of communication, community cohesion and matching resources to need. (Go to Report) |
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Univercity Connections
USA 2007
In Fort Collins, the "connection" between CSU and Downtown is obvious, potentially mutually beneficial and, to a great extent, unrealized. The purpose of UniverCity Connections is to bring these exceptional community assets together in harmony with our natural environment.
At the beginning of the process, the stakeholders identified the elements of a vision for the future of the study area. These elements became the Vision Statement for UniverCity Connections. All of the work that followed was guided by this vision of the desired future and the products of this work are intended to bring that vision closer to reality. (GO TO REPORT) |
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The University and Urban Revival
Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets
Judith Rodin
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.(Go To Article) |
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Communities of Opportunity
Smart Growth Strategies for Colleges and Universities.
USA 2007
NACUBO and Ayers/Saint/Gross released a publication entitled Communities of Opportunity: Smart Growth Strategies for Colleges and Universities. Institutions of higher education across the United States have adopted smart growth strategies to help ensure that new growth and development meet the institutions’ mission to provide high-quality education, support research and innovation, and serve the community in which they live..(Go To Article) |
Education at a Glance 2007
Education at a Glance is the OECD’s annual round-up of data and analysis on education, providing a rich, comparable and up-to-date array of indicators on education systems in the OECD’s 30 member countries and in a number of partner economies. Education at a Glance 2007 finds that the expansion of tertiary education has had a positive impact for individuals and national economies.(Go To Article) |
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Linking Colleges to Communities
Engaging the University for Community Development
University of Maryland
Aug 2007
How can universities leverage their resources for community benefit? To address this question, the Democracy Collaborative at the University of Maryland has released their report, Linking Colleges to Communities: Engaging the University for Community Development. In this report, they review the history of policy and funding decisions that have shaped the agenda and direction of higher education; survey the growing movement for university community engagement from service-learning and community-based research to university financial strategies that are investing many tens of millions of dollars annually in community development; and suggest a strategic framework by which America’s foundations, in particular, could play a catalytic role in awakening the sleeping giant of higher education. (Go to Article)
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University of Leeds Housing Strategy Update
May 2007
The University of Leeds was the first higher education institution in the U.K to produce a housing strategy in 2005. The strategy has been reviewed and an update has now been published.
The University seeks to foster a positive relationship with its local communities.The concentration of students in InnerNorth-West Leeds and smaller communities therein have seen student numbers increase to the point at which the benefits of the student population are outweighed by the loss of community. (Go To Article) |
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Studentification : a Guide to Opportunities, Challenges and Practice
UK 2006
Studentification’: a guide to opportunities, challenges and practice has been published by Universities UK in partnership with the Standing Conference of Principals (SCOP)and in association with the Department for Education and Skills(DfES), the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) and the Local Government Association (LGA).
This guide should be viewed as a starting point for HEIs and stakeholders planning to initiate or extend discussions and joined-up working, and to establish good practice that is sensitive to the local context. (Go To Article) |
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