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Resources:

  • If you would like to review some sample correspondence with survey participants, please click here.
  • Our conclusions and recommendations from the project can be viewed here.

Background on the Project:

Group 3 includes Anna, Antonella, Greg, Helen, Jim, Leah, Scott, and Will.

For the purposes of this project, the terms "Boston" and "Boston area" are defined by the boundaries of the 8th Congressional District of Massachusetts.  Furthermore, "government(s)" and "student government(s)" refer to collegiate student governments in the Boston area.

Our goal is to establish lines of communication between collegiate student governments in the Boston area.  It is our hope that communication will foster collaboration and cooperation among these previously isolated entities.

Network data and analysis should reveal existing relationships between the student governments and provide clear indications of where inter-governmental communication is lacking.  A final product for our project is a distribution-ready YouthMap of the student governments that includes the contact information for their respective representatives, current projects and initiatives, and existing inter-government relationships and projects (if any), and school size.  The map may also include government financial resources, faculty advisor contact information, key college/university administration contact information, and a list of activities and issues on which each government might collaborate (eg. community service events, fund raising, public events, awareness campaigns, lobbying activites, protests, etc...).  The network map will be distributed to the 33 collegiate student governments and other community partners such as college/university administrations, charitable organizations, and student groups.

Here's a summary of our progress on Monday, 27 October 2008 (just for reference):

Initial research has been divided among the eight group members, and each member is researching four schools.  Basic information including address, school description, student government description, key student-representative contact information, and school size should be on the CIRCLE map by next class.  It is likely that we will discuss contacting these schools directly by Monday, November 3, if not sooner.
 --Anna--
Tufts University
Urban College of Boston
UMass Boston
Wentworth Institute of Technology
Wheelock College		  --Antonella--
Harvard
Katherine Gibbs School
Lesley University
Longy School of Music		  --Greg--
Emerson College
Emmanuel College
Fisher College
Franklin Institute of Boston		  --Helen--
Boston Conservatory
Boston University
Bunker Hill Community College
Cambridge College
 --Jim--
Massachusetts College of Art
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences
MIT
New England College of Optometry		  --Leah--
Bay State College
Berklee College of Music
The Boston Architectural Center
Boston College		  --Scott--
Tufts
Saint John's Seminary
School of The Museum of Fine Arts
Simmons College
Suffolk University		  --Will--
New England Conservatory
New England School of Law
Northeastern University
Roxbury Community College
 
School list from: http://www.house.gov/capuano/links/ma_colleges.shtml
 

Original Checklist:

 # ITEMSTATUS
1
 Pick a topic or issue
 X
2 Identify one or more potential community partners/audiences X
3 Explain how network data and analysis could help with the issue X
4 Envision a final product for the project X
5 Brainstorm starting points for community research X
6 Assign research tasks to each student X
7 Enter the inital network data on YouthMap X
7a Add inter-node links to network map
 X
8 Begin discussing and analyzing the network map  X
9 Add more data to the map  X
10 Create a final product  X


Subpages (2): Conclusions, Questions, and Recommendations William Carpenter's Correspondence