Progressive Approaches to University-Community Relations: The Town-Gown Story in Burlington

Autor/in	Clavelle, Peter
Titel	Progressive Approaches to University-Community Relations: The Town-Gown Story in Burlington
Quelle	In: Connection: New England's Journal of Higher Education and Economic Development, 15 (2001) 3, S.19-20 (2 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-6405
Schlagwörter	College Students; Neighborhoods; Municipalities; Student Behavior; School Community Relationship; College Housing; Land Use; Vermont + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Magistrat; Student behaviour; Schülerverhalten; Studentenunterkunft; Bodennutzung
Abstract	The City of Burlington (population 40,000) is home to the University of Vermont (UVM), Champlain College and Burlington College. UVM alone enrolls some 7,300 undergraduate students and almost 9,000 students overall. With the university just a half-mile up the hill from the city center, Burlington's urban amenities--its arts and culture, restaurants, coffee houses and retail outlets--are within easy reach of the campus. UVM students have a significant, positive impact on the local economy. At the same time, students have had a profound effect on rental housing availability, rent levels and noise in the neighborhoods adjacent to downtown and the university. City concerns about student pressure on the rental housing market, on neighborhoods, and on traffic and parking congestion peaked in the late 1980s as UVM's enrollment grew dramatically. Burlington attempted to encourage and cajole the university into mitigating some of the impacts of its burgeoning student body--without success. By March 1990, the city and the university had entered into an agreement to address a range of housing, parking and traffic issues. While UVM-city relations have been at times contentious, they have made progress in the recent past. Last year, UVM, under President Judith Ramaley, reached an agreement with the city that addresses the three most difficult challenges affecting town-gown relations: (1) on-campus housing; (2) off-campus student behavior; and (3) UVM's land-use policies. In little more than a decade, town-gown relations in Burlington have been transformed from a contentious standstill to dynamic collaboration. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10