Eight CIC institutions that participated in the Implementing Urban Missions grant program funded by The Kellogg Foundation were featured this spring in a special issue of Metropolitan Universities journal, devoted to "Independent Institutions and Their Urban Missions." This is the first time a national higher education journal has focused on the experiences of private colleges and universities in community engagement, and provides CIC and its member institutions an important opportunity to contribute to the national dialogue on the subject. Copies of this publication were distributed to all CIC member presidents and other members of the higher education community who support independent institutions.
    Guest-edited by Michelle Gilliard, executive director of the Consortium for the Advancement of Private Higher Education and director of the Implementing Urban Missions program, this special issue of the journal contains articles from the eight institutions that participated in the grant program, as well as articles by the program's consultant, Marcia Marker Feld, and evaluator, Barbara Holland. Feld's article is among the first in the field to articulate a typology of college-community advisory bodies, and draws mainly from her experiences with this program. She is executive director of the University of Rhode Island's Urban Field Center. Barbara Holland, executive editor of Metropolitan Universities journal and former director of the Office of University Partnerships, which administers HUD's nationally recognized Community Outreach Partnership Centers program, in her piece explores the differences between the urban missions of small to medium-sized private liberal arts institutions and public institutions. Articles from Bloomfield College (NJ), Columbia College Chicago (IL), Holy Family College (PA), Johnson C. Smith University (NC), Lesley University (MA), Marygrove College (MI), Mount St. Mary's College (CA), and Ohio Dominican College illustrate the diversity of strategies and range of activities being used to engage and support communities, and provide examples of how institutions can maximize resources in ways that will enable them to fulfill their urban missions.
    A limited number of copies of this publication are available from CIC. For large orders please contact: Metropolitan Universities, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, 815 W. Michigan Street, UC 3169, Indianapolis, IN 46202 or telephone (317) 274-5036.

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