This report outlines work by students in the Art and Sustainable Society course in the University of Oregon Arts and Administration Program during the fall 2011 term and provides recommendations to the City of Springfield for further study and action. It can be used as an example and guide for further community mapping and community […]
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An Analysis of the City of Medford’s Parks & Recreation Department
This report comprises of three individual reports: market expansion, a current market analysis, and a pricing and cost recovery model. Executive summaries for each of these sections are included below. Market Expansion Medford Parks & Recreation (MPRD) provides athletic and enrichment programs to members of the Medford community. MPRD is nationally recognized for excellence in […]
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Strategic Public Relations Plan: Willamalance Center for Sports and Recreation
This report concerning the Willamalane Center for Sports and Recreation is a compilation of student work and includes a public relations plan, research analysis, and implementation materials. Students assessed the key challenges and opportunities and performed a SWOT analysis of Willamalane Center’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. For the two target audiences (regular renters and […]
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Spring Creek Watershed Water Forum
This project will inform the community of stakeholders of water resources in the region as to potential divergent positions and issues, as well as opinions and attitudes towards an integrated regional water management approach. Student research and role play will identify stakeholders’ values and perceptions with the goal of framing procedures towards future resolution while […]
Stormwater and Green roofs in Seaside
This project works with identifying how green roofs can improve the environmental impact of buildings in the city of Seaside, California. With regard to stormwater and urban runoff, we will be relating stormwater to green roofs and how those issues can be corrected.[DF1] We hope to understand what Seaside infrastructure is being proposed and how […]
Public Engagement with Diverse Communities in Medford
This report begins with a summary of some important context for the project, including a brief history of Latino settlement patterns in Medford and key demographic data. In the next section, we describe the methods and strategies we used to plan and execute our outreach event. It is our hope that the methodology described in […]
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Sustainability Employee Training
This project will continue the fall 2015 project to produce a module for new and existing employee training. The module will encourage and support the corporate culture of the borough as a sustainable community. Read the final student report delivered to the local gov/community partner. Sustainable Communities Collaborative Contact Info University Faculty Contact Tom Hogan […]
Farmers’ Cooperative Viability Assessment
This project was completed by this class as a part of the 2018-2019 UniverCity Year partnership with Green County. Green County is the UniverCity Year partner for the 2017-2020 academic years. Local government and community leaders have identified projects for faculty and students to work on. Green County is located in South Central Wisconsin and […]
Geocoding business licenses in Salinas
This project was conducted for the city of Salinas to assign geographic coordinates to a large set of public data, so that the city is able to obtain the locations of business licenses visibly by using ArcGIS. Our team was assigned approximately 8,252 total businesses and we had to verify the address location to ensure […]
2018 Beaufort County Transportation Needs Assessment
This project was part of the USCB’s Students Connected. USCB communication studies students were given the opportunity to explore and apply communica- tion research methods to a transportation project sponsored by the community partner, Together for Beaufort County. This project included an extensive four- pronged data collection with four groups of students collecting and analyzing […]
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