AITF 2013 Edition of Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement

Journal of Higher Education, Outreach & Engagement
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This volume of the Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement emerges from the growing need to share experiences, challenges, successes and strategies of anchor institution-community partnerships. As interest in the role and value of anchor institutions for community and economic development continues to grow, so does the need to improve and share our knowledge about what it takes to create and sustain collaborative strategies.

In this edition, several Anchor Institutions Task Force members have come together to voice some of their thoughts and stories on the potential of anchors, especially colleges and universities, to stabilize and transform lives and livelihoods in localities. Special thanks to this issue’s editors: Eugenie Birch, David C. Perry, and Henry Louis Taylor. All three of these editors are on the AITF’s Steering Committee. Authors are: Eugenie Birch (University of Pennsylvania), David C. Perry (University of Illinois at Chicago), Henry Taylor (University at Buffalo, SUNY), Nancy Cantor, Peter Englot, and Marilyn Higgins (Syracuse University), James T. Harris III and Marcine Pickron-Davis (Widener University), Eduardo J. Padrón (Miami Dade College), Thomas K. McKeon (Tulsa Community College), Frederick J. McGrail (Lehigh University), Elizabeth Hudson (University of Michigan), Robert F. Kronick and Robert B. Cunningham (University of Tennessee).