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Center for Academic Excellence, Portland State University
Portland State University's Center for Academic Excellence (CAE) was established to promote and support academic excellence in Teaching & Learning Excellence, Community-University Partnerships, and University Assessment by enhancing faculty scholarship, improving student outcomes, and contributing to the Portland Metropolitan community.

Center for Community Partnerships, University of Pennsylvania
Improve the internal coordination and collaboration of all University-wide community service programs. Create new and effective partnerships between the University and the community. Encourage new and creative initiatives linking Penn and the community. Strengthen a national network of institutions of higher education committed to engagement with their local communities.

Characteristics and Principles of University-Community Partnerships: A Delphi Study. A three-tiered Delphi survey used to examine principles of engagement for university-community partnerships.

Civic Engagement in America, Harvard University
This multi-year dialogue focuses on how we can increasingly build bonds of civic trust among Americans and their communities.

Community Information Exchange
The Community Information Exchange provides information that strengthens the capacity of individuals, community-based organizations and their partners to revitalize their communities.

Division of Community Health, University of Illinois at Chicago
The mission of the UICMC Community Health Initiative is two-fold and includes the direct provision of services in community settings and activities that foster partnerships between the medical center and various communities.

Eau Claire Center for Service Learning, University of Wisconsin
Center for Service Learning operates under UWEC Academic Affairs.

Florida Community Partnership Center, University of South Florida
An establishment of on-going relationships between the university and communities within its service delivery area, providing a unique opportunity to address urban problems systematically.

Generations Together, School of Social Work, University of Pittsburgh
Summary of the importance of University/Community Partnerships, and the Office of Child Development, two well designed partnerships.

Loka Institute
A non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and environmental repercussions of science and technology. Loka works to make science and technology more responsive to social and environmental concerns by expanding opportunities for grassroots, public-interest group, everyday citizen, and worker involvement in vital facets of science and technology decision making. The Urban

Medical Care & Community Partnerships
Ongoing partnership with several community health centers throughout the State to develop and maintain a dynamic, community-based and integrated system of medical care, education and research.

Policy Research Action Group
Loyola University Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, DePaul University, and Chicago State University ) and more than 20 community organizations. PRAG consists of Chicago-based academics and community activists who have been building a collaborative research network to better link research and grassroots activism. PRAG is coordinated by the Loyola University Center for Urban Research and Learning.

The Resurrection Project
The Resurrection Project's mission is to build relationships and challenge people to act on their faith and values to create healthy communities through organizing, education, and community develoopment.

Service Learning, Ohio University

Service Learning Program, Colorado Service-learning means a method under which students learn and develop through thoughtfully-organized service that: is conducted in and meets the needs of a Community and is coordinated with an institution of higher education, and with the community; helps foster civic responsibility; is integrated into and enhances the academic curriculum of the students enrolled; and includes structured time for students to reflect on the service experience."

The University of Illinois Public Service Activities

The Urban Universities Portfolio Project
Assuring Quality for Multiple Publics is a national initiative aimed at developing a new medium, the institutional portfolio, for communicating about the work and effectiveness of urban public higher education.

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UIC Neighborhoods Initiative
Great Cities Institute (M/C107)
412 S. Peoria, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60607-7067
PH: 312.996.8700 FAX: 312.996.8933
email: mailto:gcities@uic.edu


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