On December 4, 2014 the URBAN Boston node and the Millennium Ten Initiative hosted an event focused on the use of community-based data for measurable, breakthrough results. One of highlights of the event was a presentation by YouthHUB. The presentation slides can be found here! Image by Youth HUB
This syllabus focuses on the death of teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and the subsequent non-indictment of Darren Wilson, the police officer who killed him. The syllabus was created for a first-year composition class by Evan Kindley, Visiting Instructor in the Department of Literature at Claremont McKenna College. It is in part the result of crowd-sourced conversation that began on Facebook.
URBAN is thankful for the opportunity to share this syllabus. In the spirit of providing the authentic context from which this syllabus was created, the email written by Mr. Kindley to his students is included. (more…)
On December 4, 2014 URBAN Boston and the Millennium Ten Initiative hosted an event focused on the use of community-based data for measurable, breakthrough results! The event was held on from 6-8:30pm at the Black Box Theater at Codman Academy (14 Epping Street in Dorchester, MA). One of the highlights of Read more…
This is a report of the Bringing Theory to Practice Seminar held on May 5, 2014 at UMass Boston. The purpose of this seminar was to examine and explore a wide range of faculty rewards (including promotion criteria, awards, faculty development support, and policies at various levels) that provide incentives Read more…
The URBAN Publications Committee has drafted these guidelines for evaluating community- based research (CBR). In so doing, they hope to help researchers, editors, and reviewers seeking to identify high-quality community-based research to place in their journals. The Committee welcomes your feedback. Please send your thoughts and questions to charlotte_ryan@uml.edu. Check out Read more…
The Colegio de la Frontera Norte has developed a series of maps to geographically see the evolution of the implementation of migration laws throughout the United States. This initiative is known as the Observatory on Law and Migration Policy. Read more here
Nearly 10 percent of California’s residents are prisoners, parolees, felons, or undocumented immigrants. Although differently constituted, these groups form a caste of persons living in the Golden State for whom neither democracy nor freedom is guaranteed. Prisoners, parolees, and undocumented immigrants cannot vote. Parolees, felons, and undocumented immigrants are variously denied access to public housing, food stamps, educational loans, and employment. Prisoners, deportees, and immigrant detainees are forcibly removed from their families and communities, while undocumented immigrants, parolees, and persons under warrant live with the constant fear of arrest. (more…)
Among the proposals that emerged from the LA Node Mass Incarceration and Deportation Forum is the idea of organizing campaigns to pressure universities to pull out of private prison investments and to reinvest in socially responsible alternative criminal justice and immigrant rights programs. Enlace has kindly shared toolkits which focus on pension and university Read more…
These collaborative research principles, as refined by members of the URBAN.Boston Node on March 19, 2014, are the output of multiple conversations among collaborative research partners. The initial ideas for these principles were generated from a brainstorming session held with URBAN.Boston and Mattapan United at the ABCD Family Service Center in October 2013. The principles were then distilled into bullet points and reviewed in planning team meetings and online forums. On January 30, 2014 Robert Jenkins (Mattapan United), Soo Hong (Wellesley College), Patricia Kruger-Henney (UMB) and Monica Garlick (UMB) met to further discuss ways to refine these principles. These changes were then discussed with URBAN.Boston Planning Team members on February 3, 2014.
Principles of collaborative research include: (more…)
