WEEK OF APRIL 22, 2019
Levin News, produced by the Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs, is designed to share information on programs and activities, grants, publications, and other news of interest about Levin College faculty, staff, students, and alumni.
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FACULTY, STAFF, AND STUDENT NEWS
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>>Levin College Dean Discusses County Population Loss on Ideastream's Sound of Ideas
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 On April 23, Roland V. Anglin, Dean and Professor at the Levin College, was featured on an Ideastream Sound of Ideas segment on Cuyahoga County population loss. According to Ideastream: "Cuyahoga County's population continues to shrink, and a lot faster than most counties in the nation, the US Census Bureau estimates. More than 4,500 people left Cuyahoga County from 2017 to 2018, the ninth largest drop nationally. Many didn't go far: population in the seven county Northeast Ohio barely changed and has been stagnant for decades." Discussants shared insights on what the loss of population in Cuyahoga County and stagnant population in the region mean for Northeast Ohio. |
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>>Neighborhood Leadership Institute: A Strong Partner with Levin
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Neighborhood Leadership Cleveland is the Neighborhood Leadership Institute's (NLI) flagship program for grassroots leadership development. Now in its 25th year, the program takes place January through May, in partnership with the Levin College.
NLI exists to develop grassroots leaders who help rebuild the bonds of community and improve the quality of life for neighborhood residents throughout Greater Cleveland.
Since its inception in 2001, the Institute has operated afterschool and summer "Schools as Neighborhood Resources" sites and has graduated leaders from 34 classes of Neighborhood Leadership Cleveland, plus numerous neighborhood and special focus sessions.
The strength of this ever-growing pool of trained leaders, along with its gifted and giving staff, have allowed the Institute to become the go-to organization for grassroots engagement in Greater Cleveland, along with providing technical assistance in starting analogous programs throughout Ohio.
The program welcomes both new and experienced leaders who want to gain confidence, learn skills, and use their voices to actively participate in promoting positive change. Participants come away from the class with a deeper sense of their own purpose as leaders, a greater appreciation for the assets of their neighborhood, and a lifetime connection to the Institute's network of more than 1,800 other community and civic leaders.
Leaders are equipped with the skills of building relationships, effective communication, team building, leading groups, framing and presenting ideas, project development, goal setting, and how to create change. Topics for discussion include fundamentals of self-awareness, ethics, community organizing, government and system structures, policy and advocacy, equity vs. equality, research and funding for projects, and how community leadership impacts all of these.
The Levin College has a national reputation of enriching the lives of the individuals and the region that are a part of our community of practice. We share this goal with NLI. The College's partnership with NLI furthers our efforts in civic and community engagement, not to mention developing the next generation of public sector and nonprofit leaders.
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>>Levin's Center for Community Planning and Development Creates Best Practices to Support "Opportunity Youth"
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The Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities (CUMU) is partnering with the Levin College's Center for Community Planning and Development and the Annie E. Casey Foundation to research programs being run by CUMU member institutions that serve opportunity youth-young people between the ages of 16 and 24 who are neither in school nor working.
Under the direction of Molly Schnoke, Project Manager for the Center, the research team will work to identify and inventory opportunity youth programs; establish a set of best practices for program implementation; and develop recommendations for institutions that are starting and/or engaging in programs to support opportunity youth.
"We are very excited to be working with CUMU to gain a better understanding of the re-engagement strategies of our colleagues and peers at other member institutions. We hope to provide a better understanding of the opportunities and challenges to their approaches in serving youth with school, employment, and social supports," said Schnoke.
The Levin College was awarded the contract following a competitive request for proposal process. The research team will undertake four major components to accomplish this project: a literature review, a scan of the field with a summary inventory of opportunity youth programs being provided by CUMU member institutions, a survey of opportunity youth program participants, and a case study analysis of six CUMU member opportunity youth programs.
"The Annie E. Casey Foundation wanted to know what universities are doing to serve young people across the United States who aren't engaged in traditional educational or career pathways," said Charles Rutheiser, a senior associate in the Casey Foundation's Center for Civic Sites and Community Change. "We are excited to partner with CUMU on this work and look forward to what their efforts with Cleveland State University will uncover."
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>>Shale Gas Investment in Ohio Reaches $74 Billion According to Study by Levin's Energy Policy Center
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Total investment in Ohio's resource rich shale energy sector has reached $74 billion since tracking began in 2011, according to a new study by Levin's Energy Policy Center.
Prepared for JobsOhio, the report represents the most recent data available and covers shale investment through the first half of 2018. It comes just weeks after IHS Markit released estimates that by 2040 the Utica and Marcellus shale region, of which Ohio is a significant component, will supply nearly half of all US natural gas production.
"The landscape for American energy looks vastly different now than it did just 5 or 10 years ago, and that is largely due to the resources being unlocked in the Ohio Valley," said Matt Cybulski, director of energy and chemicals at JobsOhio. "Whether you are directly involved in the oil and gas value chain, a petrochemical company, or an energy-intensive manufacturer looking for a new home, it is impossible to ignore what these abundant, low-cost feedstocks can do for your business."
Much of this growth can be attributed to Ohio's proximity to the Utica and Marcellus shale formations in eastern Ohio, which offer a large supply of low-cost natural gas, natural gas liquids (NGLs) and oils, and account for more than 85 percent of US shale gas production growth since 2011.
This study was the fifth in a series the Energy Policy Center has prepared on investment in the Utica Shale. The full series of reports can be found here.
The study has since received extensive media coverage, including articles in the Wall Street Journal's Market Watch, the Columbus Dispatch, the Akron Beacon Journal, and WKSU. |
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>>Sylvester Murray's Legacy in City Management Education
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Laurel McFarland, Executive Director of the Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA), shared the following article in NASPAA's newsletter, highlighting the Levin College's recent two-day event, Managing the City: Honoring the Career of Sylvester Murray.
Cleveland State and NASPAA celebrate Sylvester Murray's Legacy in City Management Education
On March 26th and 27th, Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs and its Dean, Roland V. Anglin, convened a conference in tribute to Sylvester Murray, a long time faculty member there, who is also a practitioner with a distinguished career as a city manager. The themes of the conference reflect Professor Murray's legacy to the field:
- Focus on the individual and on training students to care about the people they serve and work with.
- Practice "radical inclusion" in local governance.
- Teach local governance, but for global citizens and managers.
- Emphasize hands-on pedagogy for greatest impact on students' lives and careers.
A number of local administrators and elected officials from Cuyahoga County presented panels on challenges facing mayors and city managers in Ohio and beyond, and the importance of innovation in city management practice to achieve better, faster, less expensive, more inclusive government.
A panel on educating the next generation was moderated by NASPAA Executive Director Laurel McFarland and featured Rajade Berry (North Carolina State), David Birdsell (Baruch), Brandi Blessett (University of Cincinnati), Susan Gooden (Virginia Commonwealth University), and Clayton Wukich (Levin). Panelists explicitly addressed how we take the things that Sy Murray has stood for in his life's work and carry that into the education of the next generation. Panelists cited Professor Murray's journey from early experiences facing down raw discrimination into more recent grappling with the more subtle - but vexing-challenge of achieving social equity, and what that means for educating the next generation. MPA students must come out equipped to lead inclusive local government that addresses social and economic inequalities head on. They also called attention to the fact that education for local governance really matters, but that now we have to teach it in a global context, because local governance plays out in a global context now. Panelists also devoted considerable attention to the current era of rapidly changing technology, and that Sy Murray's legacy of focusing on the individual means we must not allow technology to bury or exploit citizens' privacy and integrity as human beings. The conference concluded with an understanding that Professor Murray's career stands as a challenge to the rest of us to live up to his high ideals and demonstrated integrity as a practitioner and educator.
Stay tuned - next week's issue of Levin News will include additional details regarding this event, along with videos of the two-day conference.
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 Dr. Mark J. Salling, Senior Fellow and Research Associate of the Levin College, has published a new Focus on Facts report, Home Purchase Loans are Denied More Often for African American Applicants than White Applicants in Northeast Ohio.
Housing condition and neighborhood vitality depend on investments by institutions that make purchase loans to home buyers. Without access to such credit, prospective homebuyers are fewer and the value of property declines.
The Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) provides census tract level data on the number of loan applications that are submitted and the number of home purchase loans that are finalized. Data are reported by the race (and gender) of individual applicants. HMDA data on denials for conventional (1-4 unit) loan applications in 2016 are analyzed in the report for White and African American applicants in the 12-county Northeast Ohio area.
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>>Levin Professor Presents at American Planning Association and for the International Municipal Lawyers Association
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 Alan Weinstein, Professor at the Levin College and the Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, presented in two sessions at the American Planning Association National Conference in San Francisco. On April 13, he discussed how recent Supreme Court First Amendment rulings have affected regulation of panhandling and solicitation in the public right-of-way and regulation of postings and street banner programs on public property in a session titled "Right-of-way Management: Small Cells to Scooters." On April 14, he presented an overview of the interplay between state and local regulation of marijuana businesses in a session he organized and moderated, titled "Regulating Marijuana: Legal and Planning Issues." On April 23, he also presented a national webinar on "Local Government Regulation of Marijuana Businesses" for the International Municipal Lawyers Association.
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>>Levin Professor Selected for Urban Affairs Association Project in Celebration of its 50th Anniversary
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 Dr. Dennis Keating, Emeritus Professor at the Levin College, has been selected by the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) to participate in its History Project oral interviews at their annual conference in Los Angeles, as part of UAA's celebration of its upcoming 50th anniversary in 2020.
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Levin's Center for Public and Nonprofit Management Launches New Quarterly Newsletter
The Center for Public and Nonprofit Management has just released the first issue of its new e-newsletter: Center for Public & Nonprofit Management Quarterly - A quarterly newsletter about professional development, student enrichment, and community engagement programs.
>> Read the Newsletter
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UPCOMING EVENTS SPOTLIGHT
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>>Monday 4/29 @ 9-11 am | Advocacy for Children's Healthcare, a Levin Morning Briefing with Michael D. Wellendorf of the Akron Children's Hospital
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 The state of Ohio enjoys a network of six children's hospitals providing high-quality pediatric health care for all Ohio children regardless of a family's ability to pay – including Ohio's poorest and sickest children through Ohio's Medicaid program. We face several challenges here in Ohio and throughout the nation related to health care financing, quality, cost and access – all of which are certain to remain on the public policy agenda well into the future. Michael Wellendorf (MPA '10) will provide an overview of the issues facing children's hospitals in the realm of public policy, including some of the areas that are priorities as they seek to advance their operational missions.
Levin Morning Briefings are open to the public and free to attend. Bagels, danishes, and coffee will be provided.
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>>Tuesday 4/30 @ 4-6pm | Levin College Hosts Panel Exploring Hidden Prejudice
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 The Cleveland State University Division of Diversity, Inclusion, and University Engagement, in partnership with the Levin College Forum Program, will present a panel featuring McArthur "Genius" Fellow Jennifer L. Eberhardt on Tuesday, April 30.
Eberhardt is the author of BIASED: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do, where she "demonstrates how our unconscious biases powerfully shape our behavior, leading to racial disparities from the classroom to the courtroom to the boardroom. She reveals that all people are vulnerable to racial bias, even if they are not racist."
The forum, which is the third event in the Truth & Reconciliation Community Police Dialogue series, will also feature Roger Smith, Kwame Ajamu, Emma Keeshin, Dr. Yvonne Connor, and Dr. Ronnie Dunn.
The event, which is free and open to the public, will begin at 4pm in the Roberta Steinbacher Atrium. Registration is requested.
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>>Trails and Greenways for our Metropolitan Future
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Trails and Greenways for our Metropolitan Future
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Trails and greenways increase property values, promote healthier lifestyles, and serve as catalysts for economic development. The Greater Cleveland area has experienced a significant increase in the number of trails and greenways that are being planned and constructed, providing important alternative transportation modes by linking neighborhoods, educational and institutional facilities, and parks and recreation areas.
On April 18, the Levin College Forum presented a discussion on Trails and Greenways for our Metropolitan Future. Our panel of local experts, who have been involved in the planning and development of a number of local trail initiatives, presented updates on their latest trail projects. The panel included Freddy Collier, Director of the Cleveland City Planning Commission; Michelle Johnson, Director of Community Planning and Design for the Environmental Design Group; Michael Mears, Senior Planner for the Cuyahoga County Planning Commission; Derek Schafer, Executive Director of the West Creek Conservancy; Brian Zimmerman, Chief Executive Officer, of the Cleveland Metroparks; and was moderated by James M. Kastelic, Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Levin College.
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>>Equity Planning: What's Next for Cleveland?
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Equity Planning: What's Next for Cleveland?
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On March 28, the Levin College Forum in partnership with the Ohio Chapter of the American Planning Association presented Equity Planning: What's Next for Cleveland? Panelists shared how the principles of equity can be embedded into the many planning decisions currently playing out in Cleveland while drawing on examples from a new book, Advancing Equity Planning Now, edited by Norman Krumholz, Professor Emeritus at the Levin College, and Kathryn W. Hexter, former Director of the Center for Community Planning at the Levin College.
The forum took an in-depth look at housing and community development; panelists discussed how a federal public housing initiative-the Rental Assistance Demonstration (RAD)-is currently being implemented by the Cleveland Metropolitan Housing Authority, how city leaders and major stakeholders can leverage the redevelopment of large public housing properties, and how to address equity through the City of Cleveland's community development strategy. |
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Heidi Gorovitz Robertson, Steven W. Percy Distinguished Professor of Law at CMLaw and Professor of Environmental Studies at the Levin College, has been quoted in a News 5 Cleveland story on Cleveland EPA water violations.
>> Read the Article
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Dr. Mittie Davis Jones, Associate Professor Emerita at the Levin College and Interim Director of the CSU Diversity Institute, Office of Inclusion, and Multicultural Engagement, was featured on WKYC promoting the Amazing AKA 5K Run/Walk, an event which educates the community on the importance of organ and tissue donation and other health related topics.
>> Watch the Video
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UPCOMING LEVIN COLLEGE EVENTS
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MONDAY 4/29/19: LEVIN MORNING BRIEFING | Advocacy for Children's Healthcare | Bonda Room, UR 254 | 9 - 11 a.m. | Open to the public and free to attend. Light refreshments provided. | Learn More and Register.
MONDAY 4/30/19: LEVIN COLLEGE FORUM | BIASED: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do | Roberta Steinbacher Atrium | 4 - 6 p.m. | Open to the public and free to attend. Light refreshments provided. | Learn More and Register.
THURSDAY 5/16/19: DEAN'S FORUM | AsiaTown and the Asian American Experience | Roberta Steinbacher Atrium | 4 - 6 p.m. | Open to the public and free to attend. Light refreshments provided. | Learn More and Register.
TUESDAY 5/21/19: WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP SERIES | Women Empowering Women: Speed Networking Event | Roberta Steinbacher Atrium | 8 - 10:30 a.m. | Free to attend, but space is limited. Registration required. | Learn More and Register.
THURSDAY 5/23/19: LEVIN COLLEGE FORUM | Smoke on the Water: Five Decades of Progress Restoring Great Lakes Rivers | Roberta Steinbacher Atrium | 4 - 6 p.m. | Open to the public and free to attend. Light refreshments provided. | Learn More and Register.
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