New Article: Campus and Community Collaboration: Clark University story

Posted by on July 15, 2005

[posted from Higher Ed Service-learning list]

In the 1980s, Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts, had a choice. It could turn its geographic focus toward Park Avenue, expanding its campus westward toward Worcester’s more prosperous neighborhoods, or it could continue to invest its future in the distressed Main South community. Clark chose the latter and joined the neighborhood in a substantial revitalization effort. The resulting University Park Partnership is today a national model of successful university/community collaboration. Communities & Banking, a publication of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, talked with Clark’s president, John Bassett, about the project. Read the interview online at http://www.bos.frb.org/commdev/c&b/index.htm

In the same issue, a map shows the location of New England’s public and private colleges and universities plotted in relation to the region’s low and moderate income areas as part of a study the Boston Fed is doing on the role that these anchor institutions play in community and economic development in the region.