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The ties that bind region with UNC Charlotte

Posted: Wednesday, May. 13, 2009

From Dr. Owen J. Furuseth, an associate provost at UNC=20 Charlotte:

In December, the Carnegie Foundation named UNC Charlotte a community=20 engagement campus, a label reserved for colleges and universities = demonstrating=20 a sustained commitment to collaborating with off-campus = constituencies.

Over the past 50 years, the isolated ivory tower model of higher = education=20 has been abandoned. Today, universities work with off-campus partners to = address=20 critical community needs. Carnegie's designation honors institutions = that are=20 models for this new paradigm.

UNC Charlotte exemplifies the engaged urban university. Since its = founding,=20 our campus has actively sought partnerships to solve the region's = challenges.=20 Consider a few samples. Last year, nearly 16 percent of UNC Charlotte's = budget=20 was directed toward building partnerships and serving area schools, = businesses=20 and others. In 2008, our students partnered with 250 organizations and = provided=20 more than 23,500 hours of volunteer services.

In response to dynamic population and economic shifts, the university = has=20 marshaled three new applied research programs. The Charlotte Research = Institute=20 has been restructured to match 15 applied science and technology = research=20 centers across campus with the business needs of this region and state. = The=20 Institute for Social Capital has established a cutting edge database = focused on=20 children's well being and devised partnerships with outside groups to = examine=20 issues affecting youth services and social capital. And the Urban = Institute has=20 designed and implemented a regional benchmarking tool that evaluates = conditions=20 across the 14-county Charlotte region. This was constructed with local = leaders=20 and public officials to guide decision-making around infrastructure, = economic=20 and environmental policy-making.

UNC Charlotte's role on meeting the needs of this region and state = has grown=20 and become more sophisticated. The current economic crisis simply = reinforces the=20 principle that public higher education and community needs are = inseparable.

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