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Nicky Denison; Les Newby; Peter Mackreth; Peter R. H. Slee – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
The Leeds Anchor Network (or system) was established in 2017 with eight founder organizations. In 2024, membership was 14 and represented 1 in 7 of the Leeds city workforce. Leeds Beckett University is a founding member. This paper explains how the system originated and developed, the role Leeds Beckett University has played in that process, and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Service Learning, School Community Relationship, School Community Programs
Todd Swanstrom; Ifeanyi Ukpabi; Elaina Johns-Wolfe – Metropolitan Universities, 2024
Anchor movements rest on the premise that people- and place-based initiatives can be mutually reinforcing. The community development movement, however, has been haunted for years by the people-place dilemma -- the idea that efforts to help people harm efforts to uplift places and vice versa. Most of the literature on the anchor strategy has…
Descriptors: Community Development, Economic Development, School Community Relationship, Higher Education
Williams, Ronald C.; Klugh, Elgin L. – Metropolitan Universities, 2017
The legacy of deindustrialization and associated underemployment continues to plague many former industrial communities. In these spaces, universities serve as anchors providing gateways for individual economic empowerment, and as "brain centers" charged with generating solutions for societal problems. This paper explores the development…
Descriptors: Urban Universities, Urban Renewal, Economic Development, Entrepreneurship