The Roles of Foundations and Universities in Redevelopment Planning

Autor/inn/en	Walker, Laurie A.; East, Jean F.
Titel	The Roles of Foundations and Universities in Redevelopment Planning
Quelle	In: Metropolitan Universities, 29 (2018) 2, S.33-56 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1047-8485
Schlagwörter	Philanthropic Foundations; Urban Universities; Neighborhoods; Urban Renewal; School Community Relationship; Urban Areas; Urban Planning; Public Housing; Case Studies; Community Organizations; Resistance to Change; Partnerships in Education; Community Development; Capacity Building; Facilitators (Individuals); Neoliberalism; Politics of Education; Semi Structured Interviews; Participant Observation; Colorado (Denver) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Philanthropismus; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Stadtsanierung; Urban area; Stadtregion; Stadtplanung; Sozialer Wohnungsbau; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Hochschulpartnerschaft; Community; Development; Entwicklung; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Teilnehmende Beobachtung
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01