The City, Land and The University Examining the relationships of urban Universities and the communities in which they reside

Courses and Workshops

Our courses and workshops are targeted towards a diverse audience including academics, university-based decision makers, planning practitioners and community-based organizations. Our workshop "Urban Universities as Real Estate Developers", has since its introduction, seen representation from over a 100 universities from across the country. Each year this interactive workshop focuses on a variety of themes. This year we will move the workshop out of Cambridge and spend two days at the University of Toronto.

Representatives from over a dozen cities attended our "Neighborhoods Working in the Shadows of Urban Universities": a workshop introduced in 2004 for community based organizations (CBOs). At this workshop, representatives from CBOs—some were CDCs and other traditional community organizations who had a university as a neighbor while others were organizations that were formed specifically to confront university real estate expansion—gathered. The workshop provided an opportunity to understand the university’s logic in their real estate expansion and to hear from community groups who have successfully worked with their neighboring universities. This workshop will be offered as part of the Lincoln Institute’s contribution to the Institute for Community Economics’ conference to be held in Portland, Oregon, August 18-20, 2005. We would welcome suggestions for other venues at which to offer this workshop.

The Institute’s annual Journalist Fellowship Program gathers journalists from around the country for a two-day workshop. In June 2004 the program focused on university real estate development, giving us the opportunity to introduce some of the ideas from The City, Land and The University Program to print and non-print journalists. The program is directed by Ann LeRoyer; for more information contact annleroyer@lincolninst.edu.

In keeping with our model of "360 degrees of Planning and Development", this year we plan to introduce a workshop for private developers associated with university real estate development. This workshop is scheduled for September 18-29, 2005.