Focus groups are a technique originally developed as a market research tool. The purpose of the tool is to dig deeper into the “why” of how specific groups feel about ideas, trends, or questions. The Durand-Arkansaw School District Administrator, Greg Doverspike, approached representatives of the UniverCity Year project in progress in Pepin County. He had […]
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In the fall of 2017 and spring of 2018, more than 130 students in six urban planning and landscape architecture classes worked closely with the City of La Grange (pop. 4,700). Hurricane Harvey hit the week of the first community kick-off meeting, postponing the projects and the start of the fall semester. La Grange is […]
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Clinic law students, who are second or third year students at the University of Iowa College of Law participating in the Community Empowerment Law Project (CELP) explored models for community-driven investment vehicles in two Iowa communities- Webster City and Manning. Rural Iowa communities of all sizes face many, well-documented challenges: aging residents and infrastructure, population […]
Students in the course Museums in a Digital World developed social media and digital engagements based on the special collections of the Kendall Young Library. The Kendall Young Library in Webster City contains unique art collections and archives that are accessible to library patrons. To increase awareness of these resources, students in Museums in a […]
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Graduate students in the School of Library & Information Science provided a framework for digitizing thousands of archived local historical records that currently exist only as print documents in Webster City’s Kendall Young Library. UI students digitized approximately 175 documents from records held by the Kendall Young Library in Webster City, IA. With these documents, […]
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Students from the Tippie College of Business Marketing Institute developed branding and marketing strategies for the Boone Forks region, consisting of Boone, Hamilton, and Webster Counties, which is one of Iowa’s four Parks to People regions. Three years ago, Hamilton, Boone, and Webster Counties received funding from Iowa’s Parks Foundation to develop a master plan […]
Students in the course Translation Workshop and Independent Study student Vanessa Guzman in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese translated documents into Spanish for Webster City and the Kendall Young Library in order to serve the community’s growing Hispanic population. Webster City has a small population of first and second generation immigrants, particularly families originally […]
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Graduate students in the School of Urban and Regional Planning, working in collaboration with the Webster City Community Vitality director and the local business community, completed a strategic plan to revitalize the downtown commercial district through small business growth, building improvements, residential development, and strategies to attract residents and visitors to the area. Like many […]
Film students from the Department of Cinematic Arts created short film profiles of Webster City residents, with the goal of telling personal stories of individuals who are working to make a difference in their community. Film students Izzy Schrock and Jade Peterson created film profiles of four Webster City residents who are making a difference […]