Civil Rights Oral History Database
This project involves the implementation and organization of an oral history database project for Waterloo citizens, with a specific focus on Civil Rights leaders in the community, many of whom are now elderly.
Waterloo Housing Policy Briefs
Students in the Department of Rhetoric class Public Policy and Persuasion will develop policy briefings for Waterloo community partners, focusing on housing issues such as obstacles to home ownership, rental policies, and neighborhood stabilization.
Waterloo Law Enforcement, Mental Health, and Community Relations
Criminology students will work with Waterloo law enforcement agencies and social service providers to study incidents that involve people experiencing mental health issues, the protocols for responding to these incidents, and opportunities for law...
Church Row Neighborhood Walkability and Accessibility Study
Combined with the effort to create the Church Row neighborhood plan, a course in the School of Planning & Public Affairs will assess the walkability and accessibility of the Church Row neighborhood, particularly focusing issues of equity that...
Waterloo Fair Chance Initiative Study
As a step towards addressing inequities and racial disparities, the City of Waterloo City Council passed the Fair Chance Initiative, an ordinance which “bans the box,” removing questions about criminal history from job applications and preventing...
Columbus Junction Community Storytelling Project, Part 2
Students from the School of Urban & Regional Planning course Community Development in the Upper Midwest interviewed several Chin Burmese residents of Columbus Junction to produce a short film about their sense of home in their new community...
Columbus Junction Sesquicentennial: Strategic Communication Plan
Students in the Course Advanced Strategic Communications developed communication strategies and defined key goals for the celebration of Columbus Junction's sesquicentennial. In 2024, Columbus Junction will commemorate 150 years as a community. By...
Columbus Junction Community Storytelling Project, Part 1
Students from the School of Urban & Regional Planning course Community Development in the Upper Midwest worked with Latinx teens in Columbus Junction's Upward Bound program to produce videos and books that help tell the 150 year story of the...
Child Neglect in Keokuk - Systems Mapping and Advocacy through a Legal Lens
College of Law students in the Community Empowerment Law Project worked with Keokuk officials to map the existing system for addressing child neglect in the community, and to create a local advocacy strategy to increase system transparency...
Webster City - English to Spanish Translation
Students in the course Translation Workshop and Independent Study student Vanessa Guzman in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese translated documents into Spanish for Webster City and the Kendall Young Library in order to serve the community's...