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Rodwell, Gary D.; Klugh, Elgin L. – Metropolitan Universities, 2014
This paper explores efforts of the Coppin Heights Community Development Corporation (CHCDC) to: (1) increase the commitment to community engagement at Coppin State University, an HBCU situated in the heart of one of Baltimore's most challenged communities; and, (2) increase the community's capacity to engage the university, and other institutions,…
Descriptors: State Universities, Urban Universities, School Community Relationship, Community Development
Durington, Matthew; Maddox, Camee; Ruhf, Adrienne; Gass, Shana; Schwermer, Justin – Metropolitan Universities, 2009
Since the fall of 2006 a number of Towson University students concentrating in the discipline of anthropology have been part of a civic engagement and service-learning project focusing on an historic African-American community in Baltimore. While the focus of the research project concentrates on the processes of gentrification, individual student…
Descriptors: Local History, Anthropology, Service Learning, Research Projects
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Cromwell, Patrice M.; Giloth, Robert P.; Schachtel, Marsha R. B. – Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement, 2005
The East Baltimore Revitalization Project, a fifteen-year, $800 million redevelopment initiative, seeks to transform a struggling area of the city near Johns Hopkins Hospital. A unique partnership of the Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions and the Annie E. Casey Foundation is supporting the City of Baltimore in this…
Descriptors: Urban Areas, Neighborhoods, Neighborhood Improvement, Neighborhood Schools