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News of the Week is designed to share news about job and learning opportunities, events, programs, grants, publications, and interesting activities of Maxine Goodman Levin School of Urban Affairs faculty, staff, students and alumni. To jump directly to Opportunities, click here. To submit information for inclusion in News of the Week, please forward details to News of the Week editor Kim St. John-Stevenson at inkplusllc@gmail.com. To read back issues of News of the Week, click here.
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LEVIN STAFF, FACULTY AND ALUMNI NEWS
Levin grad Dr. Antoine Moss, '07 MPA, '11 Ph.D, recently received a "Faces of Sacrifice" award and recognition from the Mayor and City of Cleveland for his community and youth services work done through his nonprofit C.H.A.N.G.E. Volunteers, Inc. This award was issued in honor of Black History Month.
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Professor Tom Bier, senior fellow at Levin College, studied Greater Cleveland migration patterns and its urban development in recent decades. "Since LeBron came back and the Republicans are moving in for a couple weeks," he said, "the downtown rentals are full capacity and the beer is flowing on West 25th Street. That's good. But it's all small potatoes in the big picture. We're simply not creating new jobs, at least not jobs on par with the cities that are experiencing real growth." For the full article, click here.
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Sharyna C. Cloud, a Levin College alum, has been named the new director of the Cleveland Peacekeepers Alliance, an arm of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland, according to a news release. For the past eight years, Cloud, of Bedford, was with the City of Cleveland as project director for the Community Relations Board. Before that, she worked for the State of Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Corrections as a parole officer, re-entry specialist and interim assistant regional administrator.
In December, the Boys & Girls Clubs of Cleveland took over daily management of the Cleveland Peacemakers, a group that uses outreach workers to help curb street violence through mediation, gang interaction, conflict resolution, case management, family services and intervention following violent incidents. For the full story, click here.
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Newly Elected Leaders training. Photo courtesy of Dr. Lisa Thomas, Director of the Center for Experiential Learning,
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Newly elected government officials from around Northeast Ohio recently went back to school to learn how to hold public office. More than 25 newly elected officials, mainly council members from cities in Cuyahoga, Summit and Lorain Counties attended the two-day seminar to learn more about what goes into running a government. The training program was a joint effort between Cuyahoga County, the State Auditor's Office and Levin College.
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Ohio Governor and presidential candidate John Kasich said good things about the Cleveland Metropolitan School district (CMSD) during last week's Republican debate. Cleveland State University works with CMSD on the MC2STEM and Campus International schools. Dr. Lisa Thomas, Director of the Center for Experiential Learning at Levin College, is a CMSD board member. To see a transcript of Gov. Kasich's remarks, click here.
Campus District, Inc. is looking for an Economic Opportunity Coordinator as part of the Americorps VISTA Volunteer Program. Americorps VISTA is a ONE YEAR commitment beginning June 25, 2016. The application deadline is March 31, 2016. Campus District, Inc. (CDI) is a non-profit community development corporation serving the eastern half of downtown Cleveland. It is home to the Superior Arts District, Cleveland State University, Cuyahoga Community College and St. Vincent Charity Medical Center. CDI exists to mobilize the assets in the Campus District for economic growth, vibrancy, equity, community safety and sustainability. CDI works to ensure that there is a "connectedness" in the target area by serving as a conduit between those who live, work, learn, and heal in the neighborhood, and the institutions, their resources, and their ability to effect tangible and recognizable change. As part of this connectedness, CDI aspires to cultivate and elevate the voices of all stakeholders-low-income families and individuals, students, homeless shelter residents, artists, business and property owners, and institutional organizations-and to facilitate initiatives that improve the financial well-being and security of economically disadvantaged individuals. For more information, click here.
UPCOMING EVENT
Howard Williams from Columbia University in New York will be speaking at the Baseball Heritage Museum at League Park about History of the Hough Neighborhood, dating back to the 19th century. He will be speaking on Saturday, March 12th, from 12:00 p.m. - 2:00 p.m.
OTHER NEWS OF INTEREST
Introducing the newly opened Lift Up Vikes! Resource Center & Food Pantry, a new student success initiative within the Division of Student Affairs that removes roadblocks to academic achievement and offers an array of support services to students in need. The highlight of the program is a food pantry which provides fresh fruit, vegetables, non-perishables and personal care items to CSU students on a weekly basis. Our Lift Up Vikes! Resource Center includes links to community service agencies and assistance for homeless and housing insecure student. For additional information or to learn how to make a difference, please contact Lift Up Vikes! at 216.687.5105, liftupvikes@csuohio.edu, or visit csuohio.edu/liftupvikes.
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All it takes to see why the city needs new zoning to help it develop a more vital, inviting, pedestrian-friendly downtown is a spin around the Erieview District on foot. Erieview, which extends roughly from East Sixth to East 17th streets and from Chester Avenue to the lakefront, is a wilderness of blank walls of concrete or brick, reflective glass windows, and multistory garages with wide entries and exits, big ventilator grilles and exhaust fans.
The district is a legacy of 1960s Urban Renewal, the federal program that helped cities demolish and replace large areas of so-called blight with modernist housing and office blocks. It was also inspired by the now widely discredited scrape-it-flat-and-rebuild theories of the Swiss-born modernist architect Le Corbusier, who once recommended bulldozing the heart of Paris and replacing it with cross-shaped concrete towers.
Earlier today, City Council President Kevin Kelley convened a public meeting on zoning at Levin College. For more on this, click here.
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Below please find an excerpt from the transcript of last night's Republican Presidential Debate, where Ohio Governor John Kasich referenced the Cleveland schools. Dr. Lisa Thomas, Director of the Center for Experiential Learning at Levin College, is a CMSD board member.
MODERATOR: Governor Kasich, the city of Detroit has long suffered with urban blight, broken street lights, dilapidated and vacant houses, and so on. In 2013, Detroit actually declared bankruptcy, which helped, but the schools here remain a big problem. They're $3.5 billion in debt and are some of the most troubled and poorly testing in the country. The kids too often go to classrooms that are unsafe, falling apart, infested with rodents and insects. Experts say the schools could go bankrupt by next month.
Question to you. If the federal government bailed out the auto industry here in Detroit, should it also bail out the Detroit schools?
KASICH: Well, look, first of all, I think the mayor now is controlling the schools. This is not much different than what happened in Cleveland, Ohio, where the African-American Democrat mayor, the union, and business leaders came to see me and said, "Would you help us to pass legislation to really create a CEO environment so that we can take control of the schools?"
We even invested in a buyout plan, where we bought out the teachers who had been there a long time, because there were so many young teachers who had been laid off who were so enthusiastic to get back in the schools. It worked beautifully. Cleveland's coming back. The Cleveland schools are coming back because of a major overhaul.
It's the same thing that has to happen in all of our urban schools. And, frankly, look, if I were president, I'd take 104 federal programs, bundle them into four buckets, and send it to the states, because fixing schools rests at the state and the local level, and particularly at the school board level.
KASICH: Now, I also believe -- I also believe that you need to introduce vocational education in those schools. You need mentoring in those schools. And you need to have a situation where people can have an alternative forum to get a degree. And you need school choice, both vouchers and charter schools. All of those things can come together to help, Megyn.
But here's the bottom line. And I'll go quickly. We as adults have to fight in our neighborhoods, in our communities, for our children's education. Put the politics aside, and everyone in this room can play a role in lifting their schools and lifting the students who are in those schools, because too much politics gets in the middle of it, and where we focus as adults, and put children first, we see tremendous results. And the people of this town are going to rise. And they need to be involved. Thank you.
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