From sarena@u.washington.edu Wed Aug 26 19:07:17 1998 Received: from jason02.u.washington.edu (root@jason02.u.washington.edu [140.142.76.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id TAA64886 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:07:17 -0700 Received: from homer12.u.washington.edu (sarena@homer12.u.washington.edu [140.142.78.13]) by jason02.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with ESMTP id TAA23320 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:07:16 -0700 Received: from localhost (sarena@localhost) by homer12.u.washington.edu (8.8.4+UW97.07/8.8.4+UW98.06) with SMTP id TAA141324 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:07:15 -0700 Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 19:07:15 -0700 (PDT) From: Sarena Seifer To: ccp@u.washington.edu Subject: Minutes of UIF Planning Meeting, 8/25/98 - your response requested Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Hello everyone - below are minutes of the UIF planning meeting held on 8/25/98. Please take a moment to review them. You'll note that the last section contains 4 questions to respond to. Some of the questions are the same ones included in a prior email. The most important additional question asks for your input on priority areas to include in the proposal budget. Again, please email your responses to these questions and any other thoughts to sarena@u.washington.edu or to the listserv at ccp@u.washington.edu Finally -- the next email contains the minutes of the meetings held in May 1997 to discuss community-campus partnerships and an "urban agenda" for the UW. Many of you attended these meetings. The minutes may get your creative juices flowing...we covered a lot of ground and some good ideas were generated. Thanks, Sarena ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8/25/98 MINUTES OF MEETING TO DISCUSS UIF PROPOSAL: CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS IN DESIGN, ECONOMIC REVITALIZATION, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, PUBLIC HEALTH, ETC., ETC. Jeffrey Ochsner, chair, architecture and urban planning Attendees: Michael Verchot, business Thad Spratlen, business Sarena D. Seifer, medicine and public health Sergio Palleroni, architecture and urban planning Robert Filley, architecture and urban planning Jeffrey Ochsner, architecture and urban planning Background: The meeting was called by Michael Verchot and Jeffrey Ochsner and grows out of an effort to craft a UIF proposal to focus on community planning and design, economic revitalization, and related community partnerships between UW faculty and various community groups across the state. In the 1996 UIF cycle, the College of Architecture & Urban Planning offered a UIF proposal for a Center for Community Design & Planning, the Business School offered a UIF proposal for a Center to address Economically Distressed Communities, and other professional units offered similar proposals. Individually these proposals were not successful. For the 1998 UIF cycle we are looking to combine our proposals into a larger center that integrates various disciplines to address community issues in an integrated interdisciplinary way combining design/planning, economic revitalization, social services, public health, law and other services and disciplines as appropriate. Since early 1998, Michael Verchot, Thad Spratlen, Michael Pyatock, Sergio Palleroni, and Jeffrey Ochsner have had some very preliminary e-mail communications about how to bring these ideas together. This meeting was held to move this UIF project idea ahead and to broaden the "umbrella" of the proposed Center. Discussion: There was a consensus that there have been numerous efforts in multiple departments to develop "community partnerships" for service learning and the "scholarship of application" (Carnegie Foundation term). These efforts are often limited as most operate "on a shoestring." This UIF would seek to create a Center to foster such partnerships, to bring together faculty who have previously been working individually, and to create the kinds of interdisciplinary teams that can address the range of community issues and problems. For example, in an earlier discussion Mike Pyatok pointed out that in his work in affordable housing, there are often concerns about making the businesses in the retail parts of the projects successful, there are sometimes problems of family and social structure which need assistance, etc. An architectural/design/planning focus alone cannot address other critical elements that are necessary to the success of a community or to the success of the community development corporations that are often behind these projects. Another example: Sergio Palleroni pointed out that in his recent work with migrant workers' housing in eastern Washington, issues of public health are often paramount and the regulation of housing conditions is a critical public health issue--again the problem demands an interdisciplinary response. Sarena Seifer, who serves as Executive Director of the Community-Campus Partnerships for Health, talked about the previous effort to bring together UW faculty who are involved in community partnerships. This can be a base for putting together the larger interdisciplinary group of faculty whose work can be fostered by this Center. This will also give this sufficient "critical mass" to be taken seriously by the UW administration. She offered to send the Minutes of this meeting out on the list-server previously developed for the "community-campus partnerships group." The discussion emphasized a series of points: --the need for the "partnership" model; we are not simply seeking to present the expertise of UW faculty, but we are looking for "reciprocal learning" opportunities with each other and the community; --the need for the UIF to combine education, research and service, indeed to further these traditional academic missions; a UIF that is purely service will not be acceptable to the upper administration; --the possibility of drawing on the work of others in this area; other schools have successful community partnerships in a variety of areas and there are national organizations and national meetings on this topic (the UW is way behind here); --the need to emphasize that we are building on what some faculty are already doing, but that we can achieve a lot more with adequate support and by combining previously separated efforts --there was concern about the "start-up" and that there might be a need to identify early focus areas or "prototype projects" in order to show success within a few years since the UW is monitoring use of UIF funds; --there was a need identified to have an internal evaluation system and support for publication and travel, so that we can learn from and share our experiences and achieve a national profile (important to UW). --the UIF needs to be faculty-initiated; we will seek support from Deans as we assemble the proposal based on faculty activities and interests. UIF structure: The successful 1996 UIF for the "Center for Nanotechnology" was discussed as a "model"; based on this, faculty will be solicited to provide information about current activities in community partnerships (what are we already doing?) so the UIF proposal can show we are building on activities already begun, not "starting from zero." Schedule: The UIF schedule is very short. It was decided to request interested faculty to provide information by no later than September 15. There are four questions to which we are seeking responses by September 15. We hope to circulate a first draft by September 25. Questions: EACH PERSON WHO IS INTERESTED, PLEASE RESPOND 1) Identity: Please provide your name, department(s) and/or other UW affiliation, and your e-mail and phone. Who are you? 2) Current Activities: Please identify and describe in two to three sentences (no more than this) current community-based activities. Focus on those activities that involve UW already in some way. If you are involved in two or more totally distinct activities, please identify and describe each (for example, Sergio Palleroni's involvement in Design/Build.Mexico and involvement in migrant worker housing near Yakima). 3) Focus Areas: Assuming this Center for community-partnerships is created, what do you think should be its "focus areas" or "prototype projects" in first four years. (Note: We will seek some level of geographic dispersion to demonstrate that we are addressing not only Seattle, but also other parts of the state and possibly the region) 4) Funding: In creating the UIF proposal we will be proposing a budget for the Center. What do you think should be funding priorities (for example, staff; faculty release time; teaching/research assistants; a "mini-grant" program to support faculty in these activities; funding to pay for mid-career professionals to participate and bring practical expertise; funding for a well-equipped mobile van to be able to go to remote locations and be set up with computer links back to campus; etc., etc.). Any ideas about funding can be proposed at this point. We are simply seeking to get ideas "on the table." Conclusion: The meeting ended with a high degree of optimism about the possibility of this UIF being successful in bringing together a "critical mass" of faculty to create this Center and brng UW to the forefront in creating a new national model of community-based teaching, research and service based on community partnerships. WE DO ASK THAT EVERY FACULTY MEMBER PLEASE RESPOND AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO THE QUESTIONS IN THESE MINUTES. WE NEED THIS INFORMATON TO BUILD THE UIF PROPOSAL. .