Center for Community and Regional Research (CCRR)

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The primary focus of the Center for Community and Regional Research (CCRR) is community-based education at the University of Minnesota Duluth, providing faculty and students in the social and natural sciences and related fields the opportunity to work with local and regional community organizations. With this focus, students apply research skills and principles of social engagement and analysis, UMD faculty receive funding for projects in which they apply their expert knowledge and skills in a real-world local context, and local organizations, communities and agencies benefit through research on issues central to them. CCRR is a unit of the College of Liberal Arts (CLA) at UMD. CLA enables the Center to better link with other research and outreach initiatives in the College, and at UMD, therefore creating greater and farther reaching opportunities for students, faculty and communities.

Note: CCRR became inactive in the mid-2010s due to budget cuts, which affected the Center's funding from the Center for Urban and Regional Affairs.

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    Perception of Social Problems and Aspirations of Iron Range Youth.
    (1988) Laundergan, J Clark; Ahmad, Rashitah Bte; Buang, Norizam Bte; Hassan, Jamaludin; Johnson, Sheldon
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    Duluth Police Department Community Relations Survey.
    (1988) Fleischman, William A; Hamlin, John E
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    Baby Advice in the 1980s: New Parents, Social Support, and the Community.
    (1988) Janssen, Susan; Starr, Suzanne Dustrude
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    Jury Profiling Survey: Sexual Assault Cases.
    (1988) Ollenburger, Jane C; Erchul, Joseph A
    The program for Aid to Victims of Sexual Assault recommended "that the St. Louis County Attorney utilize resources in the community to study community attitudes in order to develop profiles for the selection of jurors in court trials of sexual assault cases." It is the intent of this research to profile St. Louis County residents to collect data for use in the selection of jurors in court trials of sexual assault cases. Jury profiling is a well recognized and widely used practice in law involving the classification and analysis of demographic descriptors which, given various weightings, can predict individual predispositions towards certain types of cases. The reason jury profiling research is undertaken is to provide attorneys with concrete information which informs or reaffirms beliefs about the attitudes of potential jurors. This research was carried out in two parts. The first part of the research focused on individuals who had served on juries involving sexual assault cases. Sixteen cases were selected and all jurors were asked a series of profiling questions as well as a series of questions about the jury deliberation process. A total of 121 completed interviews were conducted with jurors. In the second part, a random selection of 256 St. Louis County residents were contacted and asked the same series of profiling questions. A total of 100 completed interviews were conducted with St. Louis County residents who had not been jurors in the selected cases. Therefore, a total of 221 interviews were completed.
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    Perceptions Regarding the Services of the Department of Water and Gas, Duluth, Minnesota.
    (Center for Communitiy & Regional Research, University of Minnesota, Duluth., 1990) Fleischman, William A
    The process of providing public services is based on a number of factors. The needs of those in the area being served and the capacity of the agency to deliver the services are two of the primary factors considered in the provision of public services � Once services are designed and the delivery process begins, a third factor, evaluation, comes into play. This study focuses on the evaluation of the delivery of services provided by the Duluth Department of Water and Gas. The study provides data which describe the attitudes and perceptions of customers concerning the services delivered by City of Duluth Department of Water and Gas. The overall objective of the study is to develop a set of data which will assist the Department of Water & Gas in providing quality services.
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    International Wolf Center Program Development Survey. Final Report: Survey Results.
    (Duluth: Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Outdoor Recreation Program, Center for Community & Regional Research, University of Minnesota, Duluth., 1990) Fleischman, William A; Franz, Robert E, Jr; Gilbertson, Kenneth L
    The successful design, development and marketing of programs depends upon a number of factors, not the least of which are funding, staffing, and demand. It is most often the case that demand provides the basis for decisions regarding funding and staffing. Therefore, the description of the nature and extent of the demand is crucial for program management. The International Wolf Center (IWC) expressed a need for data that would provide a basis for managing and developing programs. The research that is being reported here was designed to assist the IWC in its efforts to develop and market new as well as existing programs. There are a number of ways in which demand can be assessed in order to (1) describe the existing and projected interest, (2) determine the direction for program development, and (3) provide a basis for structuring programs to meet and cultivate the variety of interests in wolves and wolf-related topics. The method used in this study to meet the program development and marketing objectives of the International Wolf Center involved the development of a questionnaire. This questionnaire was designed to collect data which would provide the basis for describing the nature and extent of the demand for IWC programs and services, and to facilitate the identification and development of the market segments.
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    Report on Pre-Test Information: Evaluation of Service Leadership Project
    (University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1990) Ollenburger, Jane C
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    Formative Evaluation of 'Our House': Transitional Housing for Homeless Mentally Ill Women.
    (Center for Community & Regional Research, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Duluth., 1991) Ollenburger, Jane C; Geis, Michelle K; Gruba, Jim
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    Homeless Youth: A Needs Assessment for the LIFE HOUSE Project.
    (Center for Community & Regional Research, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Duluth., 1991) Ollenburger, Jane C
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    Interagency Case Management and Service Coordination in Northeastern Minnesota
    (University of Minnesota, Duluth, 1991-10-10) Karp, Joan M; Nelson, Marilyn
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    Perceptions of Social Problems and Aspirations of Swedish Iron Range Youth.
    (Duluth: Center for Community & Regional Research, Center for Urban and Regional Affairs, University of Minnesota., 1992) Laundergan, J Clark; Hegg, Kerstin; Beitel, Erik; Sachs, Michelle
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    Evaluation of Service Leadership Project: Final Report.
    (Center for Community & Regional Research, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Duluth., 1992) Ollenburger, Jane C
    From mid January through late April 1992, Post-test interviews were conducted with St. Louis County residents assessing the type and quality of and attitudes toward the services provided by St. Louis County after the implementation of the service leadership training. The survey instrument was drawn up by Dr. Jane Ollenburger, Associate Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Sociology at UMD with the assistance of Jeffrey Thompson, formerly of the Employee Development Division, St. Louis County. The research was funded jointly by St. Louis County and the Center for Community and Regional Research (CCRR). Interviews were conducted by telephone. They averaged 8.25 minutes in length with a standard deviation of 3.6. The shortest interview was 3 minutes and the longest was 30 minutes. Departments included in this survey underwent a service leadership training program. The intent of the program was {:o improve the quality of customer service.
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    Early Childhood Education Research Project: 1991-1992.
    (1993) Karp, Joan M; Carlson, Helen; Keller, Clayton
    The first purpose of the Early Childhood Education Research Project, a collaborative project between the University of Minnesota, Duluth and the Duluth Public Schools was to determine the significance of differences on cognitive and social competence measures, if any, among third grade pupils who had been in various types of early childhood programs when they were younger. The second purpose of the project was to determine if there were differences in parents actions and views about influences of early childhood programs on their children's development and education and ways the parents were involved in their children's education which could be related to their participation in early childhood programs.
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    Geographic Information Systems: A Feasibility Study for the City of Duluth Police Department.
    (1993) Tobin, Graham A; Fleischman, William A; Kroll, Karen
    A Geographic Information System (GIS) does not currently exist in the Duluth Police Department. The objective of this project is to determine the feasibility of employing a GIS to unprove the Duluth Police Department's ability to identify patterns of criminal activity, to represent those patterns graphically, and to use the information to facilitate the management of departmental resources. As a result of this study, we recommend the implementation of a Geographic Information System. This recommendation is based on our findings which reveal that: (1) the Duluth Police Department's data capturing and analysis systems utilize outdated hardware and software that will soon be obsolete, (2) the current records management system is reasonably compatible with a geographically based management system, (3) the emergency management systems are structured in such a way so as to make the transition to a GIS oriented process manageable, and (4) GIS based procedures are being used by other agencies as efficient and effective means for managing crime prevention and crime resolution and for managing agency fiscal, material, and personnel resources. The present systems can be modified to a GIS, since they have the basic elements already in place. Both those systems associated with the Duluth Police Department and those connected with the 911 System can be used for developing a GIS that will provide for the needs of DPD and will provide a basis for use by other agencies dispensing emergency related services in the area.
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    Immigrants and Radicals in Duluth: An Historical Investigation.
    (1994) Hudelson, Richard
    The work undertaken here is part of an ongoing larger study of the history of Duluth, eventually intended to be published in book length form. This larger project is being done by Carl Ross, director of the Minnesota Radicalism Project of the Minnesota Historical Society, and Richard Hudelson of the department of philosophy at the University of Minnesota Duluth. The project has had the support of the Minnesota Historical Society. On the basis of earlier research, Ross and Hudelson had identified a number of research tasks that needed to be completed as part of the larger undertaking. Summarized in this report are the results of preliminary research in a few of these targeted areas. The research work was done by students at UMD with the support of the Center for Community and Regional Research.
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    Information System Data Collection Protocol Development Project. Final Report.
    (Center for Community & Regional Research, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Duluth., 1994) Fleischman, William A
    The process of managing forest land under multiple use objectives requires a wide range of activities. Providing information is one of those activities and it spans the entire range of units in the Forest Service. While the provision of information is important, it is often considered to be a task that is of lesser importance than other tasks that are perceived to be more directly related to production goals. Further, the provision of information is often viewed as a simple task. That is, if the information is provided that is all that is necessary. In fact, the provision of information has at least five dimensions: the sender, the message, the channel, the receiver, and the setting in which the information exchange takes place. Because the process -of providing information is complex, the evaluation of the process and the evaluation of the results are tasks that require considerable attention. The evaluation processes can be facilitated by the development of a protocol for collecting data which will provide a basis for improving the information providing process. The orienting questions for the development of a protocol that can be used to evaluate the information providing process are: (1) HOW IS THE FOREST SERVICE DOING PROVIDING INFORMATION TO RECREATION USERS? (2) HOW DOES ONE KNOW THAT?
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    Effectiveness of the Automated Probation Reporting System (APRS) Pilot Project. Final Report.
    (1995) Fleischman, William A; Hamlin, John E; Swenson, David X
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    Identifying and Interpreting Contemporary Wild Rice Habitat in Ceded Chippewa Lands of Northern Minnesota.
    (Center for Community & Regional Research, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, Duluth., 1995) Henderson, Martha L
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    Two Harbors: Perceptions and Concerns for the 21st Century. A Community Survey.
    (Center for Community & Regional Research, University of Minnesota, Duluth., 1996) Tobin, Graham A; Goerdt, Lynn M; Bonfigt, Susan