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Economos, Christina D., e Joseph A. Curtatone. "Shaping up Somerville: A community initiative in Massachusetts". Preventive Medicine 50 (gennaio 2010): S97—S98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ypmed.2009.10.017.

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Rossetti, Jaclyn, Stephanie Berkowitz e Amanda Maher. "Somerville, Massachusetts: A City's Comprehensive Approach to Youth Development". National Civic Review 105, n. 1 (marzo 2016): 3–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ncr.21262.

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Leach, Steve. "Peter Somerville, Understanding community; politics, policy and practice (second edition)". Local Government Studies 43, n. 1 (18 novembre 2016): 132–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2017.1257548.

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Balsas, Carlos J. L. "Fishing, food, and harbor community development in Massachusetts". Journal of Public Affairs 19, n. 3 (25 settembre 2018): e1865. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pa.1865.

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Scher, Clara, Emily Greenfield e Joseph Gaugler. "USING RESEARCH TO ADVANCE THE DEMENTIA-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY MOVEMENT AT THE LOCAL, NATIONAL, AND INTERNATIONAL LEVEL". Innovation in Aging 6, Supplement_1 (1 novembre 2022): 23–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igac059.087.

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Abstract It is estimated that more than 55 million people worldwide are living with dementia. To address the social and health needs of individuals living with dementia and their care partners, researchers, policymakers and advocates have championed dementia-friendly communities (DFCs) as a population-level response. DFCs promote the well-being of those living with dementia, empower all members of the community to celebrate the capabilities of persons with dementia, and encourage individuals living with dementia to engage in their communities. The objective of this symposium is to describe the ways in which research can help to advance the dementia-friendly movement at the local, national, and international levels. First, Scher & Greenfield will describe the dimensions of implementation of DFCs in Massachusetts with implications for program monitoring and process evaluation. Second, Epps & colleagues will discuss the process of developing a person-centered tool to evaluate the impact of dementia-friendly programs in faith-based communities. Third, Somerville & colleagues will present findings from a study of community and organizational factors related to dementia-friendly readiness in community-based senior centers. Finally, Sun & colleagues will discuss the barriers and facilitators to implementation of DFCs in the USA during the COVID-19 pandemic. Taken together, these studies demonstrate the utility of quantitative and qualitative research methodologies to elucidate how and to what extent DFCs are implemented. Findings have implications for examining the population health impact of DFC efforts, as well as for attending to issues of health disparities and aging equity in the uptake, implementation, and sustainability of DFC initiatives.

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Loh, Penn, e Boone Shear. "Solidarity economy and community development: emerging cases in three Massachusetts cities". Community Development 46, n. 3 (27 marzo 2015): 244–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/15575330.2015.1021362.

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Black, Kathy. "RESEARCH TO STRENGTHEN, INNOVATE, AND TRANSFORM AGE-FRIENDLY COMMUNITY PRACTICE". Innovation in Aging 7, Supplement_1 (1 dicembre 2023): 458. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/geroni/igad104.1506.

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Abstract There is much research being conducted to better understand and advance age-friendly community practice. This symposium presents research from leading age-friendly researchers and practitioners across the United States. Drs. Black and Oh provide an analysis of the nation’s sectoral efforts based on progress reported by the age-friendly communities. Drs. Hernandez and Coyle will describe the research and community engagement that led to the development of an aging equity conceptual framework and examples of how it is being operationalized in the City of Boston. Drs. Greenfield and doctoral student Pope will present on a scoping review of studies in the U.S. and Canada on the range of ways in which the public sector participates in age-friendly community efforts. Drs. Coyle and Oh and doctoral students Gleason and Somerville present on a study that explored factors inhibiting communities from officially joining the age-friendly network. Dr. Perry reports on efforts to elevate the voice of older adults on social justice issues pertaining to aging in place in the domain of housing. Individual abstracts provide further detail on each study’s methods and findings.

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Buchanan, David R. "Building Academic-Community Linkages for Health Promotion: A Case Study in Massachusetts". American Journal of Health Promotion 10, n. 4 (marzo 1996): 262–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4278/0890-1171-10.4.262.

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Using select practice variables from Rothman's typology of models of community organization, this case study of the Massachusetts Community-Based Public Health Consortium analyses potential sources of conflict in collaborations between academic institutions and community coalitions. Based on different socialization experiences and organizational expectations, the goals, assumptions, basic change strategies, salient practitioner roles, conceptions of the client population, and client roles of the respective organizations were found to differ between these two partners and to be a source of chronic, unproductive tensions in consortium deliberations. The article concludes with recommendations for facilitating the development of more mutually trustworthy academic-community linkages to achieve public health promotion goals. These recommendations include (1) developing a greater awareness of the respective kinds of assumptions academic and community partners are likely to bring into new partnerships and (2) developing a more highly integrated model of community-based public health that capitalizes on the strengths of both the social planning and locality development approaches.

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Dunbar, Elizabeth L., Emily B. Wroe, Basimenye Nhlema, Chiyembekezo Kachimanga, Ravi Gupta, Celia Taylor, Annie Michaelis et al. "Evaluating the impact of a community health worker programme on non-communicable disease, malnutrition, tuberculosis, family planning and antenatal care in Neno, Malawi: protocol for a stepped-wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial". BMJ Open 8, n. 7 (luglio 2018): e019473. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2017-019473.

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IntroductionThis protocol concerns the implementation and evaluation of an intervention designed to realign the existing cadre of community health workers (CHWs) in Neno district, Malawi to better support the care needs of the clients they serve. The proposed intervention is a ‘Household Model’ where CHWs will be reassigned to households, rather than to specific patients with HIV and/or tuberculosis (TB).Methods and analysisUsing a stepped-wedge, cluster-randomised design, this study investigates whether high HIV retention rates can be replicated for non-communicable diseases (NCDs), and the model’s impact on TB and paediatric malnutrition case finding, as well as the uptake of family planning and antenatal care. Eleven sites (health centres and hospitals) were arranged into six clusters (average cluster population 21 800). Primary outcomes include retention in care for HIV and chronic NCDs, TB case finding, paediatric malnutrition case finding, and utilisation of early and complete antenatal care. Clinical outcomes are based on routinely collected data from the Ministry of Health’s District Health Information System 2 and an OpenMRS electronic medical record supported by Partners In Health. Additionally, semistructured qualitative interviews with various stakeholders will assess community perceptions and context of the Household Model.Ethics and disseminationEthics approval has been obtained from the Malawian National Health Science Research Committee (#16/11/1694) in Lilongwe, Malawi; Partners Healthcare Human Research Committee (#2017P000548/PHS) in Somerville, Massachusetts; and the Biomedical and Scientific Research Ethics Sub-Committee (REGO-2017–2060) at the University of Warwick in Coventry, UK. Dissemination will include manuscripts for peer-reviewed publication as well as a full report detailing the findings of the intervention for the Malawian Ministry of Health.Trial registration numberNCT03106727.Primary sponsorPartners In Health | Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo P.O. Box 56, Neno, Malawi. Protocol Version 4, March 2018.

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Olendzenski, Michael. "Connect: Breaking Down Barriers in Public Higher Education". Teaching English in the Two-Year College 36, n. 2 (1 dicembre 2008): 186–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.58680/tetyc20086890.

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This article describes the development of collegiality and the positive results of professional synergy within a group of English professors from three community colleges, a state college, a university, and a maritime academy in southeastern Massachusetts.

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Tesi sul tema "Community development – Massachusetts – Somerville"

Acosta, Daniel Anthony. "Beyond community participation--Hispanic political and leadership development in Massachusetts". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62901.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1991.
Vita.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-80).
by Daniel Anthony Acosta.
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Norton, Mark A. (Mark Arlington). "The role of community based organizations in a changing workforce development environment : Somerville Community Corporation's response to new skill demands and new workplace organizations". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/69385.

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Wu, Cindy C. (Cindy Cin-Wei). "Building community assets through individual development accounts : growing a strategic network in Lawrence, Massachusetts". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/39851.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2007.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
"June 2007."
Includes bibliographical references (p. 99-102).
This thesis aims to inform the decision-making process for growing an asset-building program through strategic partnerships with other community-based organizations (CBOs). The impetus for this paper came from Lawrence CommunityWorks, a CBO in Lawrence, Massachusetts that is interested in substantially expanding the number of Individual Development Account (IDA) program participants in Lawrence by at least 75 accounts, or a 400% increase. The expectation is that this increase in IDAs will contribute to a place-based asset-building strategy that gives Lawrence residents the financial, human and social capital to revitalize this historic mill city. Asset-building, through IDAs, has emerged as a tool by which individuals and families in Lawrence have been able to overcome challenges of divestment and immigration, to invest in assets that provide financial security. This thesis identifies metrics of success in the IDA program at CommunityWorks through the perspective of graduates of the program in an effort to identify and understand the elements of the program which must be preserved as the program grows. This thesis also presents a conceptual map for CommunityWorks to consider as they make strategic decisions about partnering with other CBOs to expand their IDA program.
by Cindy C. Wu.
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Creeley, Hannah Highton. "Creating an asset management model for Massachusetts state-aided public housing : a study of policies and practices to inform the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49689.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2009.
Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-73).
Local housing authorities in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts currently manage over 50,000 state-aided public housing units on a consolidated, authority-wide level-a style of property management that does not allow for the detailed monitoring or assessment of each property within a local housing authority's portfolio. The private real estate sector and federal public housing authorities with more than 500 federal public housing units manage properties according to an asset management model in which the funding, budgeting, accounting, and management systems are conducted on a property-specific level. Recently adopted for federal public housing authorities, asset management is recognized as an effective tool for generating increased efficiency and accountability as well as improved financial and physical performance for individual properties. Some academics and professionals argue that public housing is fundamentally different from the private sector and should not adopt a private sector business practice. The differences cited include unique resident populations (one is high-need, low-income and the other is independent and financially stable) and the objectives of each sector (one is considered a public service and the other is profit-driven). This thesis investigates the models and mechanisms of two asset management models used in the public housing sector in order to best inform the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development on how to move towards an asset management model for state-aided public housing.
(cont.) First, strategic asset management employed by the social rented sectors of Europe and Australia is driven by four primary characteristics: market-oriented, systematic, comprehensive, and proactive. Second, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development's asset management model for federal public housing authorities is technical and process-oriented with a focus on five core reform areas: property-based funding, budgeting, accounting, management, and performance assessment. Each case is informative in creating an asset management model for Massachusetts state-aided public housing that will increase efficiency and accountability, place a focus on property performance, and end the stigma and isolation of public housing.
by Hannah Highton Creeley.
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Mahdavi, Pedram. "An evaluation of the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development's Moving to Work voucher program". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/49871.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2009.
This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 85-87).
Since implementation nearly 10 years ago there has been limited research into the outcomes of the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development's Moving to Work rental subsidy program. The Congressionally authorized Moving to Work Demonstration program (MtW) deregulated housing agencies in order to provide flexibility to design and test innovative approaches to administering housing assistance programs. In 1999, DHCD began planning and implementation for two MtW pilots, one in Boston, targeting the shelter population, and another in Southern Worcester County, targeting working or "work-ready" households. The current program design provides 183 clients with fixed shallow rental subsidy amounts, support budgets, time limits, and case management to encourage and facilitate self-sufficiency. Preparing to transition its full HCVP portfolio to MtW status, DHCD initiated a process of evaluation and learning focused on the pilots. These lessons, which involve data collection processes and program implementation as well as outcomes, will inform the future of the statewide MtW program. This research is a qualitative and quantitative assessment of both pilot programs. The research used available baseline and current client employment, income and locational data to determine how effective DHCD's MtW model was at facilitating self-sufficiency. Additionally, focus groups with MtW clients and interviews with administrators were conducted to understand the impact and effectiveness of the program from multiple perspectives.
(cont.) Using various poverty and self-sufficiency, measures, the research finds that, in general, the program has successfully kept clients out of "deep poverty" but has not moved them out of poverty. Hence, the program has fallen short on facilitating economic self-sufficiency. The paper concludes with a set of recommendations for DHCD's future implementation and expansion efforts.
by Pedram Mahdavi.
M.C.P.

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Schwartz, Peter Howard. "Accessible and affordable housing--design, marketing, and management concerns of disabled individuals and community development corporations in Massachusetts". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/70232.

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Laino, Carmela. "Development of a community sharps collection pilot program for the town of Northampton, Massachusetts : a review of the barriers /". Online version of thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/1850/5469.

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Amirkhanian, Alen G. (Alen Gasparian). "How effective are state venture capital funds in leveraging private sector financing : a case study of the Massachusetts Community Development Finance Corporation's Venture Fund". Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/62934.

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Murray, Edward Peter. "A contextual analysis of the spatial concentration and organization of production of the plastics industry in North Central Massachusetts". 1996. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9639008.

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Much has been written and theorized concerning the emergence of technologically dynamic industrial regions. These regions are characterized by the spatial clustering of small and medium-sized firms into flexible production networks. Economic growth models speak to the virtues of spatially concentrated, inter-linked firms and their ability to quickly respond to changing global market demands. According to these models, emerging industrial clusters and expansive competitive strategies emanate from the collaboration among firms within a region where cooperative yet competitive inter-firm relations create the ability to exploit certain "competitive advantages" in an uncertain global economy. Empirical case studies of industrial clusters in the United States have included the center of semiconductor production in the Silicon Valley of California and the concentration of mini-computer producers along the Route 128 Corridor in Massachusetts. These so-called "core clusters" have received the greatest attention due to their technological dynamism and global competitiveness. Home-based core clusters also hold an attraction because they offer the potential for comparative case studies with technologically dynamic clusters within other industrialized nations. Attempts to compare and emulate industrial development patterns in more celebrated geographic regions has limited scholarly research to more advanced industrial sectors of the economy. Mature industrial sectors have received far less attention, despite their growing vitality and contribution to the economic base of their respective regions. The empirical case study of the plastics industry of North Central Massachusetts uncovered a unique industrial cluster with a distinct spatial pattern and organization of production. The case study and contextual analysis offer a formative perspective on a reemerging industrial region that helped to explain the correlation between the spatial concentration of firms and the local production network. The conclusions provide a wider and more varied explanation of regional industrial development, and a meaningful framework for the formulation of appropriate reindustrialization policies and strategies. This has clear implications for industrial planning and development practice. Appropriate and successful economic development planning will need to rely more on grounded interpretive research, require greater local capacity building, and consider the development of more formalized networks of institutional support.

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Mullen, James Hayes. "Executive leadership and political decision-making: A case study of the development and evolution of the community college system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1957-1962". 1994. https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI9510510.

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Politics plays an inevitable and integral role in the development of policy concerning higher education at the state level. Governors are fundamental to the political process of statewide higher education policymaking. This study examines the role which two governors played in the early development of community colleges in Massachusetts between 1957 and 1962. The purpose of this study is essentially two-fold. First, it seeks to tell a political story about two governors of different personalities, parties, and policy priorities. Focusing on the common historical theme of community college development, this story presents how the contexts of their times influenced the strategies and decisions of Foster Furcolo (1957-1960) and John Volpe (1961-1962) and how, in turn, these two men shaped the period in which they lived. The second purpose of this study is to analyze specifically how Furcolo and Volpe influenced the critical early years of community college development in Massachusetts. Furcolo held a passionate policy commitment to community colleges and his passion is largely responsible for their gestation and birth. Volpe was less personally committed, yet his administration witnessed a marked increase in funding and pace of campus planning. Analysis of this irony holds a number of significant lessons concerning gubernatorial responsibilities for policy formulation, legislative leadership, and public opinion leadership. This dissertation utilizes a case study research modus operandi. It includes a literature review which focuses on works related to politics and policy-making in higher education, as well as the American governorship and the range of gubernatorial power. The results of this study offer insights into how governors use the powers of their office to shape the policies of their eras and beyond. It also provides a view of how two different governors engaged the specific policy issue of community college development within the context of other demands and policy concerns of their administrations. Finally, it offers tightly defined lessons for the relationship between governors and higher education in contemporary times.

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Libri sul tema "Community development – Massachusetts – Somerville"

Affairs, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental. XMBLY, 5 Middlesex Ave Somerville, Massachusetts. Boston, MA: VHB, 2018.

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United States. Office of Community Planning and Development, a cura di. Community development, Massachusetts: 1988. [Washington, D.C.?]: U.S. Dept. of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Community Planning and Development, 1988.

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Affairs, Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental. XMBLY, 5 Middlesex Avenue Somerville, MA. Boston, MA: VHB, 2018.

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Goff, Nancy. Massachusetts plans an economic development strategy: Rural and small city development. [Amherst, Mass.]: Center for Rural Massachusetts, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1992.

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Massachusetts Community Development Finance Corporation. CDFC investment programs. Boston, Mass.]: The Corporation, 1988.

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Development, Massachusetts Executive Office of Communities and. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts Community Development Action Grant Program, 1988. Boston]: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Communities and Development, 1988.

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David, Luberoff, e Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, a cura di. The Massachusetts Community Preservation Act: Who benefits, who pays? Cambridge, Mass.]: Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, 2007.

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Program, Massachusetts Small Cities. Massachusetts Small Cities Program: Program management manual. Boston, Mass: Executive Office of Communities and Development, 1992.

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Program, Massachusetts Small Cities. Economic Development Set-Aside: Program guide. Boston]: Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Executive Office of Communities and Development, 1986.

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Massachusetts. District Court Dept. Administrative Office., a cura di. Community mediation in Massachusetts: A decade of development, 1975 to 1985. Salem, Mass: Administrative Office of the District Court, 1986.

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Urrea, Claudia, Kirky Delong, Joe Diaz, Eric Klopfer, Meredith Thompson, Aditi Wagh, Jenny Gardony, Emma Anderson e Rohan Kundargi. "MIT Full STEAM Ahead: Bringing Project-Based, Collaborative Learning to Remote Learning Environments". In Knowledge Studies in Higher Education, 299–319. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82159-3_20.

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AbstractWith schools and educational centers around the country moving from in-person to emergency remote learning due to the COVID-19 pandemic, education faces an unprecedented crisis (Hodges et al., Educause Review 27, 2020). This case study presents the efforts and impact of Full STEAM Ahead (FSA) launched by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in response to the pandemic to support remote collaborative learning for K-12 learners, parents, and educators. We present two FSA initiatives: (1) weekly themed packages with developmentally appropriate activities for K-12 remote learning and (2) Full STEAM Ahead Into Summer (FSAIS), an online summer program for middle school Massachusetts students, specifically targeting students who are at risk for “COVID Slide.” (Institute-wide Task Force on the Future of MIT Education-Final Report: http://web.mit.edu/future-report/TaskForceFinal_July28.pdf?) Our operative theory of change is that we can improve K-12 remote collaborative learning experiences through developing and sharing a curriculum that exemplifies the minds-on and hands-on approach advocated by MIT, strategically leveraging existing structures and projects within MIT, and establishing partnerships with the local and international community. We gauge the effect of these efforts on contributing members of the MIT community and targeted learners by analyzing data gathered through participant surveys and artifacts such as the website, packages, modules, and student projects created during the summer programs. Our findings indicate that existing structures and resources – with community building – facilitated the achievement of our goal to develop and distribute problem-based learning activities and that interaction and community building were central in meeting those goals. This work contributes to the knowledge base regarding emergency online learning and the development of effective university outreach efforts.

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Loh, Penn, e Boone Shear. "Solidarity economy and community development: emerging cases in three Massachusetts cities". In Community Development and Democratic Practice, 55–71. Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315108728-5.

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Julie, Julie, e Janelle Cornwell. "Building community economies in Massachusetts: an emerging model of economic development?" In The Social Economy. Zed Books, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350223530.ch-003.

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Brint, Steven, e Jerome Karabel. "Designs for Comprehensive Community Colleges: 1958-1970". In The Diverted Dream. Oxford University Press, 1989. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195048155.003.0010.

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No analysis of the history of the community college movement in Massachusetts can begin without a discussion of some of the peculiar features of higher education in that state. Indeed, the development of all public colleges in Massachusetts was, for many years, inhibited by the strength of the state’s private institutions (Lustberg 1979, Murphy 1974, Stafford 1980). The Protestant establishment had strong traditional ties to elite colleges—such as Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Williams, and Amherst—and the Catholic middle class felt equally strong bonds to the two Jesuit institutions in the state: Boston College and Holy Cross (Jencks and Riesman 1968, p. 263). If they had gone to college at all, most of Massachusetts’s state legislators had done so in the private system. Private college loyalties were not the only reasons for opposition to public higher education. Increased state spending for any purpose was often an anathema to many Republican legislators, and even most urban “machine” Democrats were unwilling to spend state dollars where the private sector appeared to work well enough (Stafford and Lustberg 1978). As late as 1950, the commonwealth’s public higher education sector served fewer than ten thousand students, just over 10 percent of total state enrollments in higher education. In 1960, public enrollment had grown to only 16 percent of the total, at a time when 59 percent of college students nationwide were enrolled in public institutions (Stafford and Lustberg 1978, p. 12). Indeed, the public sector did not reach parity with the private sector until the 1980s. Of the 15,945 students enrolled in Massachusetts public higher education in 1960, well over 95 percent were in-state students. The private schools, by contrast, cast a broader net: of the nearly 83,000 students enrolled in the private schools, more than 40 percent were from out of state (Organization for Social and Technical Innovation 1973). The opposition to public higher education began to recede in the late 1950s. Already by mid-decade, a large number of urban liberals had become members of the state legislature, and a new governor, Foster Furcolo, had been elected in 1956 on an activist platform.

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Songan, Peter, Khairuddin Ab Hamid, Alvin W. Yeo, Jayapragas Gnaniah e Hushairi Zen. "Challenges to Community Informatics to Bridging the Digital Divide". In Global Information Technologies, 2121–33. IGI Global, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-939-7.ch152.

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Community Informatics (CI) is the application of ICT to overcome the “digital divide” both within and among communities (Gurstien, 2000). Taylor (2004) further asserts that CI is a connection between theory and practice in community networks. In this case, CI refers to the use of ICT for community practice, which Glen (1993) elaborates as encompassing concepts of community development, community service delivery and community action. With the emergence of CI, it is possible for remote communities to enjoy the benefits of ICT for economic and social development. For example, in India, the M.S. Swaminathan Research Foundation established six Village Information Shops, which enabled rural families to access and exchange a basket of information using ICT (Balaji & Harris, 2000). In Costa Rica, there is a project involving the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to implement “digital town centers” in remote villages (Harris, 1999).

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Songan, Peter, Khairuddin Ab Hamid, Alvin W. Yeo, Jayapragas Gnaniah e Hushairi Zen. "Challenges to Community Informatics to Bridging the Digital Divide". In Encyclopedia of Developing Regional Communities with Information and Communication Technology, 86–89. IGI Global, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59140-575-7.ch014.

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Gano, Geneva M. "Building the Beloved Community in Provincetown". In The Little Art Colony and US Modernism, 89–127. Edinburgh University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474439756.003.0004.

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The ‘beloved community’ formed in Provincetown, Massachusetts in tandem with the high period of Greenwich Village’s bohemian ‘little renaissance.’ Once a prosperous whaling port, the village of Provincetown had been undergoing economic decline and a marked ethnic shift in the decades preceding its development as an art colony. By the turn of the century, its Catholic, Portuguese population overtook its ‘native’ Yankee one; at this time, the village amplified its reputation as home to two successful summer art schools and boosted its image within a booming regional tourist economy as a quaint, Cape Cod fishing village. A coterie of moderns from Greenwich Village discovered Provincetown’s relatively underdeveloped beaches and wharves and by the teens had made it their home base, at least during the summer season. This chapter core of this coterie lived out their bohemian identities by drinking copiously, dressing wildly, bathing naked, and forming the performing group that would come to be known as the Provincetown Players. This endeavour brought together individuals with a wide range of talents (as well as those with very little talent but a desire to participate in the fun) for theatrical events that served to consolidate—physically, in the space of the theatre, as well as ideologically, through the content of their plays—a distinctly modern and modernist ‘beloved community’ of friends, lovers, and associates at a distance from the metropolis.

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"Conquering Prison Walls". In A Wall Is Just a Wall, 174–93. Duke University Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478025887-009.

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Far from being scientifically measurable or objectively intolerable, risk was defined by proponents of furloughs as a necessary feature of a reintegrationist view of corrections—that is, that prisons should prepare their residents with the tools for their inevitable return to society. At the very moment when “crime in the streets” emerged as an elastic mantra that helped to fuel mass incarceration, prisons were temporarily releasing people onto the streets in the name of public safety. After explaining the development of furloughs as a tool of “community corrections,” chapter 8 explores the case of Massachusetts, where prison organizing and a reformist administration made the state’s prisons a laboratory of experimentation and revealed fault lines between correctional administrators, elected officials, and members of the public. The chapter traces how a liberal furlough program became an entrenched feature of the Massachusetts prison system, even for those convicted of first-degree murder.

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Rao, Madhusudana N., Jabbar A. Al-Obaidi e Wanchunzi Yu. "An Assessment of the Project Pathways to the Middle East and North Africa at Bridgewater State University, Massachusetts, USA". In Advances in Educational Marketing, Administration, and Leadership, 137–64. IGI Global, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-7869-1.ch006.

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Pathways to MENA (the Middle East and North Africa) at Bridgewater State University (BSU) in Massachusetts, USA is a project designed to integrate several programs, including foreign language instruction, international partnerships with MENA institutions, study abroad, undergraduate student research, faculty professional development, and community engagement. Its purpose is to expand the internalization of various cultures, religions, languages, geography, and people across the MENA region. The strategies to achieve these are designed to leverage the interlinks among various activities, including four foci: curriculum enhancement, student success, faculty development, and community outreach. The authors designed a survey and conducted the analysis to quantitatively assess the outlined strategies. The COVID-19 pandemic compelled the coordinators of this project to hold community outreach events on Zoom. The projected results demonstrated a massive improvement in intercultural competencies among students, faculty, and participants from the regions.

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Casarano, Erika, Donald Walker, Tyler Brinson, Jeremy Hall, Wenley Kilbride, Catherine Woodbury, Mike DuPont, Lucica Hiller e David Bedoya. "Combined Efforts for Combined Sewers: Benefits and Challenges of Combining the Collection System Models of the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority and the Cities of Cambridge and Somerville, MA to Support Development of Coordinated Updated CSO Control Plans". In Collection Systems and Stormwater Conference 2024. Water Environment Federation, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2175/193864718825159395.

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Greenwood, Darryl P. "Adaptive Optics Development at Lincoln Laboratory". In Adaptive Optics for Large Telescopes. Washington, D.C.: Optica Publishing Group, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.1364/aolt.1992.afa8.

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For almost two decades Lincoln Laboratory has been developing adaptive optics for the purpose of improving the quality of propagated laser beams. Results of significance in this program have been: (1) compensation for atmospheric turbulence on a ground-to-space link; (2) proof-of-principle of the use of mesospheric sodium as a source for synthetic beacons; and (3) demonstration of synthetic-beacon adaptive optics using Rayleigh backscatter as a source. These events are all “firsts” in the development of adaptive-optics technology. As a result of a 1990 decision by the U.S. Air Force, we are now in the position to make the results of these programs available to the astronomical community, for whom adaptive optics is clearly a boon in highresolution imaging of celestial objects. In particular, the systems used in the aforementioned experiments are being applied to astronomy at both the Mount Wilson Observatory and the Firepond Optical Site in Massachusetts.

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Van de Zande, Georgia D., e David R. Wallace. "Online Communication in Student Product Design Teams". In ASME 2018 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/detc2018-85623.

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New technological developments are changing how the product design community communicates in the workplace and in the classroom. Slack, an online communication application with some project management features, has become a popular communication tool among many workers and students. This paper examines the Slack conversation conducted by 16 student product development teams in a course at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), 2.009: Product Engineering Processes. Following a typical product development process, co-located teams of 17–20 students each used the online communication tool in addition to face-to-face meetings to design new products in one semester. The resulting conversations were analyzed for message count over the course of the semester, message count by day of the week and hour of the day, message count by user, and communication organization. It was observed that teams tended to increase their communication right before deadlines and decrease it right after. When viewing teams’ communication patterns by day of the week and the hour of the day, it was seen that many teams increased their communication in a short period after team meetings. In both of these cases, successful teams tended to have more consistent communication. There was little correlation (R2 = 2186) between the number of hours teams reported working on the class and their Slack activity by day. When looking at a team’s total volume of communication, high volumes may indicate team members are working well, but it may also indicate they are struggling. Teams with higher levels of success tended to have more organized communication structures than teams with lower levels of success, as assessed by instructors. In addition to the data collected in this work, further research is still needed to understand with more certainty how online communication patterns correlate to teams’ levels of success or team behaviors.

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Nikula, Blair, e Robert Cook. Status and distribution of Odonates at Cape Cod National Seashore. National Park Service, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.36967/2303254.

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Odonates are significant components of most wetland habitats and important indicators of their health. At Cape Cod National Seashore (CACO), we compiled odonate records dating back to the 1980s and, based partly on that data, identified 41 wetland sites for sampling, representing six freshwater habitats (kettle pond, inter-dune pond, dune slack, riparian marsh, vernal pool, and bog). We surveyed these sites for adult odonates during the 2016?2018 field seasons. Ten sites were surveyed all three years (total 19-20 surveys/site); all ten had at least some historical data. The remaining 31 sites were surveyed for one field season, a total of 6-8 times each. We conducted 391 surveys, recording 53,435 individuals and 74 species (45 dragonflies and 29 damselflies); not all individuals were identified to species. Abundance and species richness varied significantly between habitats. For all individuals recorded, abundance was greatest at vernal pools and kettle ponds. Riparian sites had the lowest abundance. Species richness was highest at kettle ponds, including several species of conservation concern, two listed as Threatened by the state of Massachusetts. Riparian marshes and dune slacks had relatively low richness. Among the 10 sites surveyed three years, we found significant annual variation in abundance and species richness. There was significant and generally greater between-site variation in abundance within a year than between years at sites. Community analysis found pond depth, habitat type, and presence of predaceous fish were significant factors explaining between-site variation in community composition. Habitats also differed significantly in community composition. Multidimensional scaling showed sites tend to cluster together by habitat type. Vernal ponds have the highest average community similarity to all other habitats (53.5%), with dune slack (52.9%), bog (52.0%) and inter-dune (51.5%) close behind. In contrast, riparian sites (46.3%) and kettle ponds (39.5%) are least similar to other habitats. Overall, 86 species of odonates have been recorded at CACO, a rich and diverse assemblage reflecting the variety and quality of freshwater habitats present. Although these habitats are relatively well-protected, stressors include climate change, nutrient inflow from adjacent development, road runoff, and trampling of emergent vegetation. A plan for monitoring is beyond the scope of this project. Ideally, it would be best to use the insight into odonate variation obtained from these surveys to develop a monitoring program designed to meet standards of statistical confidence and power currently employed in NPS monitoring programs.

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