Universities as Anchor Institutions: Economic and Social Potential for Urban Development

Harris, Michael; Holley, Karri A.

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-26829-3_8

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“…Compared to RI, LC offers policymakers a way to defend against turnover in the student population, without compromising overall control of disease spread (Table 1). Limiting the number of students that avoid campus helps preserve on-campus businesses [28, 58] and minimally disrupts the student wellbeing.…”

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“…[23, 15], with universities standing to lose up to $50 million because of unused services [63]. Even the local population unaffiliated with the university takes sustains losses to business due to university closures [28, 58]. Furthermore, with socioeconomic disparities and heterogeneous household contexts, the demands of remote instruction can lead to added anxiety and stress among students [11, 61].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Empirical networks for localized COVID-19 interventions using WiFi infrastructure at university campuses

Swain

Xie

Madan

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Infectious diseases, like COVID-19, pose serious challenges to university campuses, and they typically adopt closure as a non-pharmaceutical intervention to control spread early and ensure a gradual return to normalcy. These policies, like remote instruction (SQ), reduce potential contact but also have broad side-effects on campus by hampering local economy, students learning outcomes, and community wellbeing. In this paper, we demonstrate that university policymakers can mitigate these tradeoffs by leveraging anonymized data from their WiFi infrastructure to learn community mobility (WF) and in turn explore more granular policies like localized closures (LC). WF can construct contact networks that capture behavior in a variety of spaces, highlighting new potential transmission pathways and temporal variation in contact behavior. Additionally, WF enables us to design LC policies that close super-spreader locations on campus. On simulating disease spread with contact networks from WF, we find that LC maintains the same reduction in cumulative infections as SQ while showing greater reduction in peak infections and internal transmission. Moreover, LC reduces campus burden by closing fewer locations, forcing fewer students into completely online schedules, and requiring no additional isolation. WF can empower universities to conceive and assess a variety of closure policies to prevent future outbreaks.

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Empirical networks for localized COVID-19 interventions using WiFi infrastructure at university campuses

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Xie

Madan

et al. 2021

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“…Thus, universities have an opportunity to engage in public work through collaboration with local citizens as co-producers of knowledge (Boyte, 2014). In doing so, the university as an anchor institution moves from being isolated islands of privilege (Alexander, Clouse, & Austrian, 2016;Harris & Holley, 2016) to inclusive spaces where students, faculty, and community members engage in bi-directional, collaborative projects that benefit the local community.…”

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Connecting with Community and Facilitating Learning through the Little Rock Congregations Study

Glazier

Driskill

Leach

2020

MUJ

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Places of worship play important roles as anchor institutions that promote community engagement and motivate political activity. Universities, particularly in urban settings, can also serve as anchor institutions that connect communities. Yet, there is often a gulf between the two, to the detriment of the broader community. In this article, we present the Little Rock Congregations Study (LRCS) as an approach to community engagement with faith-based organizations in an urban setting. This research project, based at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, involves an interdisciplinary team focused on understanding and improving the community engagement of congregations in the city of Little Rock since 2012. We present qualitative and quantitative data to illustrate the benefits of our approach, including research results returned to community organizations, greater visibility of the university in the community, student involvement in research and with faith-based organizations, and substantive findings that inform the greater body of knowledge and our own community. Through more than eight years of community-based work on the LRCS we provide six key lessons learned for researchers and students building relationships with religious leaders that can help bridge the gulf between these two key community institutions.

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“…One area of exploration into this problem is around the contribution of universities to cities. This interest extends not just to the growth of knowledge-intensive economic activities, but also to ensuring this is part of a more holistic pattern of urban development (Goddard and Vallance, 2013; Harris and Holley, 2016). As many universities are themselves located in urban areas, this strand of research has dovetailed with the notion of using the city itself as a ‘living laboratory’ – that is, as a site for experimentation, learning and enacting change in the local environment (Bulkeley et al, 2019; Karvonen and Van Heur, 2014; König and Evans, 2013).…”

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Building collaborative platforms for urban innovation: Newcastle City Futures as a quadruple helix intermediary

Vallance

Tewdwr‐Jones

Kempton

2020

European Urban and Regional Studies

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There is a growing academic and policy interest in the notion of using cities as ‘living laboratories’ to develop and test responses to the social, environmental and economic challenges present in contemporary urbanism. These living laboratories are often assumed to function through ‘quadruple helix’ relations between varied actors from the public, private, university and community sectors. However, empirical research that explores the real-world functioning of these arrangements is comparatively limited. This paper will help address this gap through the case of Newcastle City Futures (NCF) – a university-anchored platform for collaborative urban foresight research, public engagement and innovation. In particular, the paper will concentrate on a two-year period when NCF focused on the facilitation of innovation demonstrator projects guided by the vision of Newcastle upon Tyne developing a postindustrial future as a ‘test-bed city’. Detailed empirical accounts of the development of two demonstrator projects are used to illustrate and analyse processes of cross-sectoral collaboration and engaging the public in co-design. These are used to support the conceptual argument that the presence of the quadruple helix as a form of local innovation system should not be taken as given. Instead, the collaborative relationships required for transformational interventions in the future of cities need to be actively constructed by diverse actors and supported by intermediary vehicles such as NCF.

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Universities as Anchor Institutions: Economic and Social Potential for Urban Development

Cited by 54 publications

References 118 publications

Empirical networks for localized COVID-19 interventions using WiFi infrastructure at university campuses

Empirical networks for localized COVID-19 interventions using WiFi infrastructure at university campuses

Connecting with Community and Facilitating Learning through the Little Rock Congregations Study

Building collaborative platforms for urban innovation: Newcastle City Futures as a quadruple helix intermediary

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