The university’s Urban Research and Outreach Engagement Center (UROC) is emerging on the Northside of Minneapolis from a potent university / community history of hope, doubt, vision, confusion, promise, and possibilities.
It began several years ago with informal conversations between Mayor R.T. Rybak and President Bob Bruininks about how the university might join with the city to tackle the complex problems that faced North Minneapolis, one of the most underserved communities in the metro area.
UROC Highlights
- Oct. 31, 2009: Launch Party Postponed
- August 27, 2009: North Minneapolis Community Forum
- August 5, 2009: UROC Executive Director on Global Feminism in China
- April 26, 2009: UROC Building Featured Stop on APA Tour
- March 12, 2009: UROC Building Renovation Meet and Greet
- January 15, 2009: Construction Team Named for New UROC Building (download PDF)
- December 13, 2008: Imagining Art & A New Landscape (download PDF)
- November 10, 2008: Community Presentation of UROC’s Interior Design, Capri Theater, 2027 West Broadway (download PDF)
- October 9, 2008: Update on North Minneapolis Child and Family Service Center
- July 2008: Art Cunningham Show television interview of Irma McClaurin
- July 2008: Crossroads television interview of Irma McClaurin
- July 22, 2008: McClaurin helps U forge new partnerships
- July 18, 2008: ‘U’ establishes new presence on north side
- July 7, 2008: U of M names architecture firm that will design new Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center
- April 21, 2008: University of Minnesota moving forward on the Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center in North Minneapolis
- February 15, 2008: U of M buys Northside Plymouth Penn Shopping Center property to use for new Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center
- November 27, 2007: Irma McClaurin named Executive Director of the University's first Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center (UROC)
- October 25, 2007: FIPSE awards $750,000 to U for Northside partnership