The Detroit Consortium, A Model for City/University Collaboration on Urban Concerns

摘要

A university-community consortium was formed in the City of Detroit to provide for an exchange of expertise between the two in order to solve city problems. In order to utilize available local resources, the following objectives were proposed: (1) identifying 16 problem areas by the city for which they wanted policy option papers from the consortium; (2) conducting a three-part survey of city related academic efforts as seen by analyzing Wayne State University - City of Detroit activities, University of Michigan - City of Detroit activities and the city perspective on selected joint projects; (3) analyzing the available literature concerning models of city-university collaboration; and (4) establishing an environment in which city and university people could meet, and from which one-to-one discussions or large-scale projects could emerge, or constructive interaction could take place. This volume includes the first three elements of the project and the recommendations that emanated from the entire project.