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The Urban Track for The Coalition of Urban Serving Universities (USU) Winter Meeting

At the 124th A۰P۰L۰U Annual Meeting at the San Francisco Marriott Hotel from Sunday, November 13 through Tuesday, November 15

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Sunday, November 13, 2011

Panel: Local and National Cradle to Career Networks: Transforming the Education Landscape
Time: 10:30 - 11:45PM
Lead: USU
Description: There is a movement blowing across the American landscape, whereby regions are coming together to rebuild the education ecosystem from cradle to career. Universities have been critical partners in this movement—in some cases leading the charge. This panel will discuss the STRIVE cradle to career framework, initially implemented in Cincinnati, that universities are using to link widely and deeply with their communities to support and strengthen the education pipeline from cradle to career.
Presentations: The Talent Alliance, UH All Kids Alliance

Luncheon: USU Annual Meeting of Presidents and Chancellors
Time: 12:00-1:30

Panel: Workforce Needs, Careers, and Higher Education
Time: 1:45 - 3:00
Lead: CICEP
Partners: USU, CEO, Congressional and Governmental Affairs (CGA)
Description: Industry looks to APLU universities as well as other HE sectors to educate students for positions vital to their productivity and competitiveness, and governments hope for fruitful dialog. What careers can university graduates count on being available in five to ten years, and what should universities do to shape both student expectations and academic programs to be suitably aligned?

Main Session: Anchoring the Future: Universities Building Vibrant, Resilient Cities
Time: 3:30 - 4:45
Lead: USU
Partner: Council on Engagement and Outreach (CEO)
Description: Universities have found ways to catalyze the resources available in their cities and tie them into wider socioeconomic drivers, creating greater equity, economic development and improving the quality of life while strengthening their own capacity to meet their learning, service and discovery mission. In this rapidly urbanizing world where cities have become key economic and social drivers, public universities are look to rebuild and redefine their public purpose. Learning to engage deeply and widely in the civic, political, economic and social challenges in their backyard is part of that reset. Leaders from the university and city hall will discuss the role of the urban-serving universities in making great cities, with an emphasis on how universities work with their cities, looking deeply into what works and what doesn?t when universities work with City Hall. Speakers will also discuss how those partnerships transform their own institutional mission, culture, and capacity to meet the needs of the 21st century.

Monday, November 14, 2011

Panel: Entrepreneurship and the University
Time: 10:30 - 11:45AM
Lead: USU
Partner: Commission on Innovation, Competitiveness and Economic Prosperity (CICEP)
Description: Entrepreneurship is increasingly being seen as one of the most important strategies for rebuilding regional economies and increasing U.S. competitiveness. The role of the university in entrepreneurship development is critical but what is often overlooked is just how multi-faceted the university role in this area is. The panel looks at how universities are working to stimulate and support entrepreneurship across the range of university activities including technology transfer, student entrepreneurship, social venture development, small business support and the dissemination of entrepreneurship across the curriculum among other strategies.
Presentations: Jaqueline Smith, University at Buffalo, Teng-Kee Tan

Panel: San Francisco Case Study: Building Neighborhood Capacity through Engaged Scholarship (Special Session organized by local member San Francisco State University)
Time: 1:45 - 3:00
Description: Over the past three years San Francisco State University has engaged in partnership with city government, local institutions of higher education, and neighborhood associations and community leaders to focus our efforts at supporting community organizations in selected neighborhoods to build capacity to address issues of local concern. The intermediate goal is the strengthening of social capital, both bonding and bridging, at the neighborhood level. The long term goal is the creation of neighborhood Community Councils which take the lead in working with each other, local community, and City Hall in making their community greener, safer, more economically strong, and better able to respond and recover from a natural disaster. In this presentation a panel of higher education representatives alongside city agency representations will discuss the consortium’s efforts to date and future plans.

Panel: Universities as Anchors for Equity: Improving the Health of Urban Populations
Time: 3:45 – 5:00
Main Sponsor: USU
Co-Sponsor: Council on Access, Diversity and Excellence (CADE)
Description: Academic medical centers, and the larger university systems in which they are embedded, often serve as anchor institutions for communities. These institutions, focused on education, research, and practice, are well positioned to lead the change necessary to address health equity in communities. This panel will provide different perspectives on how university engagement is critical to achieving the goal of health equity, and how urban institutions are utilizing their resources to have an impact. Included in this are models of large scale collaborative research, community-based education, and workforce development.
Presentations: APLU Neighborhood HELP, Kathryn Peek