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Community-Centered Analysis

We provide advocates and civic and private sector leaders with data, metrics, analysis, and narrative storytelling.

Community Research

We work to integrate theory and practice through community-engaged research.

Education Research

Research focused on the landscape of education in the Charlottesville-Albemarle area and across the Commonwealth.

Publications

Peer-reviewed publications authored by affiliated faculty, researchers, and students.

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Orange Dot Report 6.0 (2024)

Unleashing Our Potential: Family Self-Sufficiency in the Charlottesville Region

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Methods for Community Engagement

This toolkit is designed to provide a range of resources and strategies that will enhance engagement skills and help achieve community-focused goals.

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Transportation Equity and Accessibility in the Charlottesville Region

Transportation in the region is significantly inequitable, privileging systems and policies that require access to automobiles and the ability to afford them.

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Disorientation as a Learning Objective: Applying Transformational Learning Theory in Participatory Action Pedagogy

Reflecting on a participatory action course through the analytical lens of transformational learning theory, this paper considers the pedagogical and ethical challenges and opportunities for planning education through collaborative action.

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Charlottesville Stop and Frisk

Dashboard on the who, where, and why of stop and frisk events in Charlottesville

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Charlottesville's Frontline Workers

Data analysis about frontline and essential workers in our region, done in support of the Frontline Workers Fair Treatment Charter

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COVID-19 Shelter in Place Burden

How the eases and burdens of sheltering in place are distributed across the Charlottesville region

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To Be a Good Neighbor

This document, written at the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, responds to the question that Universities must ask: How can we be a good partner in the current pandemic?