Impact Report: Fall 2014
Sarah Munro, Community Leadership Partnership Manager and Director of Research, University Neighborhood Partners
In this issue
- Cover
- Director's Note
- Radio Bilingüe
- New American Academic Network (NAAN)
- Painting Community
- Sustainable Startups
- Making It Legal
- A Legacy of Giving
- Service is a Lifestyle
- Community Scholar in Residence
- Community Resident in Action
- A Bridge Between Two Worlds
- Impact Report
- UNP Staff
- Donors & Supporters
- UNP Partnerships
- Partners
- Financial Report
- Board of Advisors
- Appeal for Support
One of the most necessary roles of University Neighborhood Partners is to be a ‘convener’, to create connections between partners that strengthen the partners’ capacity to do their work. The long-term goal of UNP partnership work is to reduce barriers, both in the community and in systems of higher education, to access to higher education. This report tries to convey some of the short-term ‘outcomes’ of UNP partnership work, and also the longer-term ‘impact’ of the connections that these partnerships foster.
The mission of University Neighborhood Partners is to bring together University and west side resources in reciprocal learning, action and benefit ...a community coming together.”
After 11 years, the greatest impacts of UNP‘s partnership work are connections between organizations, residents, institutions of higher education, and other systems that impact access to education in west side neighborhoods. In some cases these connections lead to system change at high levels of City government, the Salt Lake School District, and the University itself. In other cases the connections create pathways that allow residents to take intentional, forward-moving steps toward their goals.
UNP’s ability to create meaningful, long-term connections between multiple levels of decision-makers (individuals, organizations, systems) and multiple sectors (e.g. education, health care, local decision-making, housing, employment, etc) is probably its greatest and most unique contribution.
Partnership Quality for Academic Year 2013-2014
| Partnership Quality | Amount |
|---|---|
| Residents/participants/partners connected to other UNP Partnerships | 194 |
| University of Utah faculty | 42 |
| Other educators (K-12 and Salt Lake Community College) | 74 |
| University of Utah students | 321 |
| West side residents directly involved | 2,745 |
| West side residents indirectly involved (e.g. attended event, recieved info) | 28,171 |
| Elementary students directly involved | 717 |
| Middle-school students directly involved | 1,618 |
| High school students directly involved | 487 |
Impact on Community/Community Change
| Partnership Quality | Amount |
|---|---|
| New jobs/income-generation opportunities created | 5 |
| New organizations/non-profits created | 1 |
| Hours spent by youth in safe spaces that build community & posititve behavior | 76,005 |
| Participants involved in leadership training | 202 |
| Participants/students who became employed by partners | 15 |
Contract Course Enrollment
Summary
Of all the students who started in the UNP program since 2006, 25% of them ended up as degree-seeking students at the U (88 out of 351). Of the 88 students who matriculated at the U; 12 of them (14%) have graduated from the U, 19 of them (22%) aare still enrolled as of Fall 2013, 57 of them (65%) are not currently enrolled at the U and have not graduated from the U.
Fall 2013 Contract Classes (University of Utah)
- EDU 1010 Intro to Teaching
- HUM 1900 Humanities in Focus
- FCS 2640 Integrated Curriculum
- GNDR 3200 Westside Leadership Institute (Spanish)
- GNDR 3200 Transnational Feminism (WLI)
- UGS 3060 Youth Participatory Action Research/Mestizo Arts and Activism
- UWP 3890 Under-Represented Rhetorics
- POLS 3960 Westside Leadership Institute (English)
- COMM 4670 Community Journalism