Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads

Posted by on January 14, 2013

“Road Half Traveled” Book Talk Jan. 24, 5:00pm – 6:00pm

“The Road Half Traveled” Book Talk
Thursday, January 24 at 5:00 p.m.
Penn Bookstore, 3601 Walnut Street

Authors Rita Axelroth Hodges and Steve Dubb discuss their new book, The Road Half Traveled: University Engagement at a Crossroads. With introduction by Ira Harkavy, Associate Vice President and Director of the Netter Center.

A growing number of universities are dedicating resources to support their surrounding communities, but much potential for advancement remains. A university’s mission as an “anchor institution,” as defined by the authors, is to consciously and strategically apply the institution’s long-term, place-based economic power, in combination with its human and intellectual resources, to better the welfare of the community in which it resides. Drawing on ten diverse universities as case studies, this eye-opening book explores practices and strategies that can be employed to improve conditions in low-income communities and emphasizes the critical roles of university leaders, philanthropy, and policy in this process. To date the most comprehensive account of the range of roles played by universities as anchors in their communities, The Road Half Traveled provides a forward-thinking perspective on new horizons in university and community partnership.

Penn alumna Rita Axelroth Hodges is Assistant Director at Penn’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships.  Steve Dubb is Research Director at the Democracy Collaborative of the University of Maryland, College Park.

The Road Half Traveled is available online at MSU Press.

http://msupress.msu.edu/bookTemplate.php?bookID=4344

For more info, contact ritaa@upenn.edu