Integrating beyond the campus: Ohio's urban public universities and neighborhood revitalisation

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Acknowledgements

The authors are very grateful to the following people for their help, information and encouragement in this study. Nevertheless, the authors are wholly responsible for any errors of fact or interpretation. The inferences and conclusions in this article do not necessarily represent the views of persons contacted or of the universities, organisations and governments described in this study.

In Akron: Ken Beach (Director, University Park Development Corporation), Jerry Egan (Planning Department, City of Akron), Luis M. Proenza (President, UA), Kenneth Stapleton (Director, University Park Alliance).

In Cincinnati: K. Scott Enns (UC, Coordinator, Community Development), Lawrence Johnson (UC, Dean, College of Education), Ronald B. Kull (UC, University Architect), Anthony Perzigian (UC, Provost for Baccalaureate and Graduate Education), Kathryn St Clair (UC, Chief of Staff, Office of the President), Mary Stagaman (UC Assistant Vice President for Community Relations and Marketing).

In Columbus: Andrea Bowlin (OSU, Director, Special Projects, College of Human Ecology), Ben Brace (realtor), Karen S. Bruns (Leader, OSU Cares), Dilnavaz N. Cama (OSU, Off-Campus Student Services), R. Michael Casto (OSU, Associate Professor, Interprofessional Studies), Jennifer Evans-Cowley (OSU, Assistant Professor, Planning), Steven A. Harsh (OSU, Director, Interprofessional Committee of Ohio), Kimberly A. Moss (OSU, Campus Planner), Nancy Nestor-Baker (OSU, Director P-12 Project), Richard Petrick (OBR, Vice President for Finance), Stephen A. Sterrett (OSU, Campus Partners).

In Youngstown: David C. Sweet (President, YSU), Margaret L. Murphy (Executive Director, Wick Neighbors), Tom Finnerty (YSU, Associate Director, Center for Urban and Regional Studies), Hunter Morrison (YSU, Director, Center for Urban and Regional Studies), Reverend John Horner (President, Wick Neighbors).

The authors also wish to thank Cesar Piovanetti, Ernesto Carreras, and Kevin Butler from the Laboratory for Cartographic and Spatial Analysis in the UA Department of Geography and Planning who prepared the maps for this manuscript. Kevin Butler, the lab's director, also assisted with the data gathering on Ohio education indicators.

Notes

1. The official websites are: www.osu.edu, www.uc.edu, www.uakron.edu and www.ysu.edu.

2. From www2.census.gov/prod2/statcomp/documents/1900-02.pdf, www.census.gov/popest/states/NST-ann-est.html and www.odod.state.oh.us/research/PopulationHousing.html (accessed 24 December 2005). In the 2000 census returns, Ohio's ethnic composition was reported as 86% white, 11% black, and 3%‘other’ (Asian-American, Native American, mixed race, undeclared, etc); 2% of the state's population declared themselves to be of Hispanic origin.

3. Year 2000 census populations drawn from www.census.gov/population/cen2000/phc-t3/tab03.pdf (accessed 24 December 2005).

4. ‘The’ has been part of OSU's official name since 1914.

5. See, for example Casto et al. (1998), Baroway (2002), Dixon & Roche (2005), and Evans-Cowley's article in this issue.

6. http://ohiostatebuckeyes.collegesports.com/facilities/ohiostadium.html (accessed 24 December 2005).

7. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2003/04/14/national/main549155.shtml (accessed 24 December 2005).

8. Uptown Consortium flyer, headed “Uptown Revitalization: A City of Cincinnati—Uptown Consortium Partnership”.

9. Knight Foundation (2001) “University-Area renewal project in Akron gets funding boost from Knight Foundation”, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation website. www.knightfdn.org/default.asp?story=news_at_knight/releases/2001/2001_12_19.html. (accessed 11 March 2006).

10. http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFPopulation? (accessed 24 December 2005).

11. http://www.youngstown2010.com/ (accessed 24 December 2005).