Empowering the voice of youth: The role of youth advisory councils in grant making focused on youth

This article will focus on the potential role for youth evaluation advisory groups within youth grant‐making organizations and networks. The main elements to be discussed include the formation of the network, the training program elements, some specific examples of efforts by young people to create and strengthen evaluation within their YACs (youth advisory councils), and the lessons learned. ©Wiley Periodicals, Inc., and the American Evaluation Association.Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/95685/1/20036_ftp.pd

Constraining Attacker Capabilities Through Actuator Saturation

For LTI control systems, we provide mathematical tools - in terms of Linear Matrix Inequalities - for computing outer ellipsoidal bounds on the reachable sets that attacks can induce in the system when they are subject to the physical limits of the actuators. Next, for a given set of dangerous states, states that (if reached) compromise the integrity or safe operation of the system, we provide tools for designing new artificial limits on the actuators (smaller than their physical bounds) such that the new ellipsoidal bounds (and thus the new reachable sets) are as large as possible (in terms of volume) while guaranteeing that the dangerous states are not reachable. This guarantees that the new bounds cut as little as possible from the original reachable set to minimize the loss of system performance. Computer simulations using a platoon of vehicles are presented to illustrate the performance of our tools

Combining Service and Learning On Campus and in the Community

Student workshops are valuable resources for combining service and learning. The challenge, Mr. Checkoway points out, is to recognize their limitations, integrate them with other courses in the curriculum, and find ways to improve their quality

New Perspectives on Planning Practice: An Introduction

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/68495/2/10.1177_0739456X8300300101.pd

Adults as Allies

Young people are creating community change! They are tutoring in the schools, working in health clinics, and serving meals in soup kitchens. They are cleaning up the environment, rehabilitating houses for the homeless, and formulating strategies for neighborhood revitalization. They are solving problems, planning programs, and involving people in decisions at the community level

Research as community-building: Perspectives on the scholarship of engagement

If research were a form of community-building, what would it be? This article addresses this question, as well as some of the personal, professional and institutional issues that it raises for me, as a community worker and university professor. It draws upon a program in a metropolitan area that is simultaneously segregated and diverse, and examines ways of defining the problem, gathering the information and using the results – all the while working with community partners, without whom the work would not be.Keywords: Research, community-building, university-community collaboratio

Neighborhood Needs and Organizational Resources: New Lessons from Detroit

Also PCMA Working Paper #19.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51169/1/402.pd

Innovative Participation in Neighborhood Service Organizations

Also PCMA Working Paper #12.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51127/1/359.pd

Renewing the Civic Mission of the American Research University

Should the American research university have a strategy for renewing its civic mission in a diverse democratic society and, if so, what should it be? Many American research universities were established with a civic mission to prepare students for active participation in a diverse democracy and to develop knowledge for the improvement of communities. Today, however, it is hard to find top administrators with consistent commitment to this mission, few faculty members consider it central to their role, and community groups that approach the university for assistance often find it difficult to get what they need

Core Concepts for Community Change

Also PCMA Working Paper #44.http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/51286/1/522.pd