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
- Oct. 23, 2009: Eighteen-year-old CitySongs becomes a program of the University of Minnesota UROC
- Sep. 8, 2009: University and community working to close digital divide with grant application
- Aug. 27, 2009: North Minneapolis community forum
- Aug. 5, 2009: UROC executive director on global feminism in China
- Apr. 26, 2009: UROC building featured stop on APA tour
- Mar. 12, 2009: UROC building renovation meet and greet
- Jan. 15, 2009: Construction team named for new UROC building (download PDF)
- Dec. 13, 2008: Imagining Art & A New Landscape (download PDF)
- Nov. 10, 2008: Community presentation of UROC’s interior design, Capri Theater, 2027 West Broadway (download PDF)
- Oct. 9, 2008: Update on North Minneapolis Child and Family Service Center
- Jul. 2008: Art Cunningham Show television interview of Irma McClaurin
- Jul. 2008: Crossroads television interview of Irma McClaurin
- Jul. 22, 2008: McClaurin helps U forge new partnerships
- Jul. 18, 2008: ‘U’ establishes new presence on north side
- Jul. 7, 2008: U of M names architecture firm that will design new Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center
- Apr. 21, 2008: University of Minnesota moving forward on the Urban Research and Outreach/Engagement Center in North Minneapolis