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MICUA Matters Summer 2010
The Loyola University Maryland community came together this past winter and spring for a series of “listening” events designed to help shape Loyola’s growing engagement with the York Road corridor adjacent to the University’s Evergreen campus. The Loyola is Listening project matched neighborhood residents and business owners with Loyola faculty, staff, administrators, and graduate students trained to ask an extensive series of questions about what the residents enjoy about their neighborhood, what they would like to change, what services and amenities they would like to add, and what role Loyola should serve in the community.
“Loyola’s participation in the future of the York Road corridor is a key component of our strategic plan,” said Vice President for Administration Terrence Sawyer, whose division developed Loyola is Listening with guidance from the American Friends Service Committee. The information gathered from the Loyola is Listening sessions will be used to guide Loyola’s York Road activities. The University is considering a wide range of ways of making positive contributions to the future of the York Road community, from a business resource center to afterschool programs for neighborhood youth. These efforts will be supported in the coming academic year with the addition of a full-time Americorps VISTA worker assigned to the project.
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