Campus-Community Collaboration for Smart Development

One of our favorite higher education writer, Karla Hignite, writes, in Business Officer, about including "neighboring communities in multipurpose capital projects and strengthen[ing] town-gown bonds." She uses case studies from Columbia University's development of its Manhattanville Campus, University Center at Lansing Community College, and Southside Institutions Neighborhood Alliance (SINA), of which Trinity College is a member, the University of Maryland, Jackson State, as well as others, to make her point: "That’s not to say the process to obtain public input and approval for proposed projects isn’t messy or complicated or doesn’t require extreme levels of leadership endurance. Yet, as the institutions interviewed for this article can attest, efforts to be viewed not only as a good neighbor but as an essential part of the neighborhood ultimately make an institution a destination of choice for students, faculty, and staff."