Charlotte Action Research Project

10/27/2015

CHARP gets a shout-out on the Campus Compact Blog for our unique approach to campus-community partnerships. http://compact.org/resource-posts/platform-partnerships/

Those of us whose work focuses on connecting higher education with the needs and opportunities in communities spend a lot of time thinking about partnerships. We don’t get anything done except through partnerships. If faculty and staff ever thought colleges and universities could act unilaterally fo…

04/22/2015

New updates on the CHARP website including a recap of CHARP's presentations at Urban Affairs and a big congratulations for Melissa Currie who completed her dissertation last week.

We want to send out a big congratulations to Melissa Currie for completing her dissertation. The title of her dissertation is Assessing community resilience at the neighborhood level in new construction starter-homes in Charlotte, North Carolina. Melissa has been an integral part of our CHARP team,…

04/16/2015

Updated 7/26/13: The regulatory bill that lawmakers ended up passing, left out eliminating protest petitions. In North Carolina neighbors can oppose

04/16/2015

Protest petitions, a tool for neighbors in zoning fights, would cease to exist under a bill that passed the N.C. House and is now in a Senate committee.

02/11/2015

Reminder about Cache's planning panel.

Cache Owens of CHARP is hosting a planner's panel as part of her NCAPA Fellowship on February 24th at 11am in McEniry 117 at UNC Charlotte. The panel will be part of Dr. Robby Boyer's Intro to Urban & Regional Planning course. The panel will include 4 planners, 3 from the public sector and one from…

02/05/2015

New updates on our website. A particular mention for Dr. Sorensen's work with MAPPR on a very influential piece of public health research.

Dr. Sorensen co-authored a paper that was recently voted "the most influential research related to health care disparities for 2014." The poll was conducted by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The research engaged Hispanic youth and paired them with Dr. Sorensen's undergraduate seminar students t…

01/28/2015

Cache Owens of CHARP is hosting a planner's panel on February 24th at 11am in McEniry 117 at UNC Charlotte. The panel will include 4 planners, 3 from the public sector and one from the private sector. The planners will talk about their experiences in the planning field and be available for questions about a planning career.

03/11/2014

WFAE's Public Conversations tackles the opportunities and challenges presented by homeowner's associations in Charlotte. The full recording of the event can be found at http://wfae.org/term/public-conversations

Thousands of Charlotte-area residents live in neighborhoods that have a local Homeowner Association. HOAs are often praised for keeping communities cleaner, safer and more livable. But some homeowners complain that HOA boards can be too rigid and arbitrary in enforcing covenants and restrictions,…

03/04/2014

Found an interesting article today about Title IX and the possible impacts of women playing sports in high school upon their social life in the future.

How does playing a sport in high school affect a woman after she has graduated? We know from Betsey Stevenson's 2010 study in The Review of Economics and Statistics that female former high school athletes tend to go further in school and make more money. But what about the effects on a woman's socia...

02/26/2014

Make sure to check out a special presentation of the film "The House I Live In" about the War on Drugs and its dire impacts on minority and low-income communities.
http://campusevents.uncc.edu/event/5949

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02/25/2014

Dr. Janni Sorensen features in our new CHARP promo. A big thanks to University Advancement for composing it for us. https://charp.uncc.edu/news-blogs/new-promo-charp

The people at University Advancement helped CHARP create a great promo starring our Program Director Dr. Janni Sorensen to spread the word about CHARP. The video link below explains our mission, our action research focus in how we work with neighborhoods, and our ability to offer opportunities for f...

02/25/2014

A bit of older news but Charlotte was selected for the 2014 Fellowship with Code for America ( codeforamerica.org )which connects tech and design experts with governments to foster innovation.

Charlotte, NC — Code for America (CfA), a nonprofit that collaborates with local governments to foster innovation, today announced that Charlotte has been chosen as one of 10 governments from across the country that will participate in its 2014 Fellowship program. Under the program, 31 Fellows from...