International Town & Gown Association 
College Town Newsletter

July 28, 2016
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The UK Town Gown Steering Committee to Host National Conference 
The UK Conference, Poppy Humphrey
The UK Town and Gown Steering Group will be hosting the Conference 'Town and Gown: Today and Tomorrow' a two day national event held at Nottingham Trent University in the UK. The Conference will share leading practices in relation to off-campus activity within the context of the HEI sector. The conference is aimed at officers who lead or contribute to town and gown rela-tions. This will include officers from within Universities, Student Councils, Police/City officials, Fire Service officers, Private Hall representatives and third sector organisations, as well as others, working to this agenda in a professional capacity. Keynote presentations and workshop sessions will focus on changes in recent years from a legislative perspective and consider new and emerging trends amongst the student population. If you are interested in attending the conference, please find a letter to submit to your organisation highlighting ways to benefit from attending.  
Koos: Town-Gown Relations Good, Improving
Pantagraph, by Lenore Sobota
The good working relationship between ISU and the town of Normal was touted in a discussion hour that preceded the ISU board of trustees meeting Friday. "The cooperation between the town and gown has never been better..." said Mayor Chris Koos. ISU President Larry Dietz agreed. "I've worked in many other commu-nities and I've never seen the type of cooperation we have here," he said. Among examples cited by Koos were cooperation on comprehensive plans, such as the development of uptown Normal and beautification of the Main Street corridor, and a joint neighborhood action team that responds to problems. Koos said there are not nearly as many neighborhood conflicts between students and long-term residents as there have been in the past. Having the university's student code of conduct apply to off-campus behavior has helped, he said.    
New Partnership Between Leed's 'Big Four' Could be Key to Future Success 
Yorkshire Evening Post, by Staff Writers
Council decision-makers are expected to give their formal backing to the creation and development of an 'innovation district' in Leeds featuring the city centre's big four institutions. Should the idea get the go ahead, it would lead to the special designation of an area of the city for bringing together creative and innovative talent. The ultimate aim is to attract new research facilities, provide a range of work spaces, create new development opportunities and provide new high-density housing to attract and retain skilled workers. Councillor Judith Blake, leader of Leeds City Council said: "An innovation district is more than just a place-it  is an alliance which would make use of the city's existing assets." By bringing together some of the city's institutions and businesses we will encourage the sharing of ideas and knowledge whilst providing numerous development opportunities. 
UMass to Try Off-Campus Party Registration Program in Fall
Town-Gown Nation News
MassLive, by Diane Lederman
University of Massachusetts officials and town police are fine-tuning a new party registration program they plan to implement this fall. Called Party Smart Registration, the idea is to have students 18 and older living off campus register their parties before they happen, providing contact information in case there are prob-lems. It's not mandatory, said Sally Linowski, associate dean for Off Campus Student Life and Community Education. The program is intended as a way to cut down on the number of police calls and increase student responsibility. If the party host is registered and a neighbor complains about noise, police will give him or her 20 minutes to end the party without police. Officers would only come to the house if there were a follow-up complaint, she said. Now police respond to all calls and hosts can be fined, warned or event arrested on the first visit.   
12 Partnering Tips for Inclusive City Growth
Brookings, by Andrew Boraine
Evidence from cities and regions around the world suggests that successful economic development works best through a "whole of society" approach. This implies building a capable state, efficient markets, and an involved civil society through city growth coalitions in order to execute collective action. How does a partner-ing approach work best in practice? Based on my experience as a former Cape Town city manager as well as a partnering practitioner for the last 15 years, here are some of the 12 tips for effective partnering strategies for inclusive city growth: 1) Get city stakeholders to agree on a shared vision for joint action; 2) Understand the practice of economic development in terms of the performance of the metropolitan economic system; 3) Do not view economic growth and inclusion as mutually exclusive; 4) Make use of different combinations of partnering solutions; and 5) Agree on common measures of economic performance.   
Collaboration, Not Competition
Inside Higher Ed, by Maxine Jaselow
Colleges in the same region often view each other as competitors, whether on the athletics field on in the ad-missions office. But the nine colleges in Pierce County, Wash., see each other as the opposite: collaborators. Pierce County is home to a diverse set of educational options. There are two public institutions (Evergreen State College and the University of Washington Ta-coma), two private institutions (Pacific Lutheran University and the Univer-sity of Puget Sound), and five community and technical colleges (Bates Technical College, Clover Park Technical College, Tacoma Community Col-lege and the two campuses of Pierce College). In 2014, amid increasing national focus on getting more Americans to attain postsecondary education or training, the so-called completion agenda, these nine institutions banded 
together to form the Pierce County Higher Education Team. The goal is to promote a college-going culture among local k-12 students. 
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