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Defining Our Anchor Efforts
What is an Anchor Institution?
The term anchor refers to the fact that an institution, 公共和/或私人, uses its deep roots in a community to
develop relationships that are reciprocal and mutually beneficial, which will lead to long-term collaborations and
partnerships that respond to community needs and challenges.
Anchor institutions are vital assets to their cities and are expected to do more in their communities as active civic participants towards improving the health and well-being of their communities.
Anchor institutions enhance the economic, social and cultural well-being of their home cities. While many institutions can play this role (hospitals, 学校, 休闲中心, 体育场), university engagement promises the potentially greatest reward. With its mission of education, discovery and engagement, its networks of knowledge that reach into the community and across the globe, and its role as educator of the urban workforce, the urban university sits at the center of the city in a way that no other institution can. 6
While it has always been common for universities to be engaged in their home communities to some degree, the current “anchor” concept emerged about the early 2000's with the recognition that institutions such as universities and hospitals are anchored into a place by the enormous infrastructures and personnel required to fulfill their functions. Anchor institutions offer direct economic benefits to their communities through local procurement and the employment required for everyday operations. 同样的, universities also represent an unlimited range of possibilities for collaborating with stakeholders outside of their campuses in order to leverage their knowledge, 培训, and expertise in ways that directly and indirectly support local residents.
作为锚定机构, universities like 萨克拉门托 State are acknowledging their interdependence with their community, and actively developing long-term, place based strategies to align and coordinate their community engagement efforts. 简单地说, the university that strategically embraces and supports their interdependent role in the community can be a major engine for economic and cultural growth, 创新, 和振兴.
囊状态 as an 锚大学
The 锚大学 concept gained further momentum in February 2018, when 33 member institutions of the CUMU joined a pilot program, the Higher Education Anchor Mission Initiative. These institutions agreed to work collaboratively to identify resources and develop new tools for implementing, 扩大, and evaluating anchor mission practices. The pilot project led to the creation of the Anchor Learning Network, “designed to facilitate a more rapid and effective advancement of the anchor mission within member institutions, 在家庭社区, and across the higher education sector.” 5
Establishing 萨克拉门托 State as an 锚大学, fully in line with this movement over the past couple of decades by universities to link community engagement with teaching and research, and to leverage resources to support local economies through procurement and hiring. This movement also has led to efforts at some universities to examine promotion and tenure guidelines to determine the extent to which incentives can be provided to support and expand community-engaged research.
总而言之, adopting an anchor-focused mission and taking strategic steps toward becoming an anchor institution allows for the operationalization of our existing commitments as 萨克拉门托’s University and provides a framework in which the University can be accountable for realizing our evolving vision for becoming a strategic and supportive community partner. 6 7
Literature Review and references are from the Anchor Task Force Full Report:
4 Anchor Institutions | Overview
5 Coalition of Urban and Metropolitan Universities Anchor Learning Network
6 The Anchor Dashboard: Aligning Institutional Practice to Meet Low-公司ome Community Needs (2013)
7 What Does it Mean to Anchor a Community?