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Experiential Learning

Town+Gown develops experiential learning research projects.  We have worked with formal experiential learning programs and individual experiential learning engagements.  We have also worked with graduate and undergraduate classes.

These are “in-kind” exchanges where students provide their skills and practitioners provide real problems with real data and other information for the project.  Experiential learning projects provide benefits to both students and practitioners and are a vital component of the Town+Gown program.

Town+Gown supports these projects by connecting the research team with practitioner experts, many of them City agency staff, publicly available data sets, providing general city government knowledge for project context, and setting up meetings, including mid-project and final presentations. In exchange, Town+Gown will require final deliverables from the research team to enable Town+Gown to abstract the project in Building Ideas and use as a foundation for future Symposium events.

Please watch our video to learn about the impact of a series of experiential learning engagements from both academic and practitioner perspectives.


Research Agenda

The Research Agenda is a tool for Town+Gown and experiential learning program administrators, professors and students to use to begin the conversation about a project.  If you are interested in any of the proposed research project ideas in this 2022-2023 Action Research Agenda, please contact Terri Matthews, Director, at matthewste@ddc.nyc.gov, and we can discuss how to tailor it to meet your needs for a specific project. 

If you have a research project idea not in the current research agenda, please contact Terri Matthews to discuss your idea—you may use the Research Question Worksheet if you find that helpful, but it is not necessary to use the worksheet to initiate the conversation


EPIC-N Program

Town+Gown participates in the EPIC-N program.

https://www.epicn.org/stories/towngown/
https://www.epicn.org/


Current Projects

Click here to view list of projects for the current academic year.


More Information


Building Ideas

Building Ideas abstracts all research projects completed in an academic year and summarizes all Symposium events. 

 


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