“Evaluating the Success of Community/University

Economic Development Partnerships”

 

A talk and panel discussion with Dr. Kenneth Reardon

 

Thursday, February 23, 2006

Clark University, Worcester, MA

 

Hosted by NERCHE and the Worcester UniverCity Partnership

 

Dr. Kenneth Reardon of Cornell University is a nationally recognized expert on university- community partnerships. He was awarded the 2000 American Institute of Certified Planners President's Award for his role in establishing and directing the highly-regarded East St. Louis Action Research Project. His research interests focus on community-based planning in severely distressed urban neighborhoods, alternative approaches to community development, urban social movements, and municipal government reform. Dr. Reardon has extended Cornell University resources, including the time and talent of undergraduate and graduate students, to empower residents of distressed urban neighborhoods throughout Ithaca, Rochester, and New York City. With nearly 20 years of research and field experience, Dr. Reardon will provide comprehensive and engaging insight into the current state of the role community-university partnerships play in economic development. Dr. Reardon is the author of “Straight A’s? Evaluating the Success of Community/University Development Partnerships,” Communities and Banking, Summer 2005.

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Read an editorial about Kenneth Reardon’s discussion which appeared in the February 25 issue of the Worcester Telegram.

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University of Massachusetts Boston Federal Reserve Bank of Boston Massachusetts Campus Compact New England Futures

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