UniverCity Year builds partnerships, ‘mutual trust’ across Wisconsin
UniverCity Year has partnered with 29 local governments and communities across Wisconsin. Its most recent cohort welcomed nine communities – a record for the program.
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UniverCity Year has partnered with 29 local governments and communities across Wisconsin. Its most recent cohort welcomed nine communities – a record for the program.
Wisconsin Rapids used UniverCity Year projects as a launching point to create a digital public art inventory, a framework for the city to support public art, and the South Wood County Cultural Coalition.
Several Wisconsin communities partnering with UniverCity Year are seeking expertise on projects related to climate change.
During the 2020-21 school year, students from the one-year Wisconsin School of Business’ Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership program executed a meaningful consulting capstone project with the City of Wisconsin Rapids. In partnership with UniverCity Year (UCY), students collaborated to help develop a framework to help the city enhance cultural initiatives. Read the story.
The City of Wisconsin Rapids recently underwent an assessment of branding, marketing, economic development, and the arts through a partnership with UniverCity Year and the Wisconsin School of Business’ Arts and Creative Enterprise Leadership program course, Management and Human Resources 746/747: Impact Consulting for Arts-Based Organizations and Communities. Read the story.
A rich arts and cultural scene offers the community something to gather around and enjoy while showcasing diversity and talent within the community; which is just one of the reasons that the City of Wisconsin Rapids partnered with the University of Wisconsin-Madison UniverCity Year program to expand arts and cultural offerings. Read the story.
Promoting community vibrancy and revitalization through the expansion of arts and cultural experiences is the goal of a recent partnership between Wisconsin Rapids and the University of Wisconsin-Madison UniverCity Year program.
Wisconsin Rapids City Times | August 1, 2020 “The UniverCity Year (UCY) program is a 3-year engagement, during which we identify community and/or government projects, UCY matches the projects with university courses/classes, university students work on the projects, then we receive research, reports, designs and implementation support,” the mayor explained. Read the story.
Wisconsin Rapids City Times | July 18, 2020 UniverCity Year (UCY), a program aimed at finding practical solutions to community-based challenges, wants to partner with the city of Wisconsin Rapids on a wide range of community-based projects. Read the story.
Wisconsin Rapids City Times | Jan. 17, 2020 This year, the University of Wisconsin-Madison program, UniverCity Year plans to make a greater impact across the state by partnering with seven communities at the same time. Read the story.