Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program
Suzanne Charles
About the Fellow
- Assistant Professor, Department of City and Regional Planning, College of Architecture, Art and Planning
- Suzanne Charles’s faculty profile
Cohort year(s)
- 2019-20, Faculty Fellow in Engaged Learning
Topic(s)
- Access, Equity and Justice; Children, Youth, Seniors and Families; Economic Vitality and Entrepreneurship
2019-20 Project
Suzanne Charles teaches CRP 6580 Residential and Commercial Development, a Baker Program in Real Estate required course. The project-based course offers an in-depth exploration of the real estate development process, and students work in teams — and with other stakeholders — to prepare development proposals for an actual site.
In previous offerings of the course, students prepared a proposal for a local site on behalf of the site owner. In fall 2019 students will not work for the benefit of the site owner, but instead will be required to consider the broader interests of the community as they create their redevelopment proposals for the Ithaca Mall in Lansing. This will involve working with two local non-profit groups — Ithaca Neighborhood Housing Services (INHS) and the Ithaca Child Development Council (ICDC) — and it will also involve the broader elicitation and consideration of community viewpoints about the future of the Ithaca Mall. An important objective of the course is for BPRE students to more fully appreciate the interests of stakeholders with whom they may not regularly engage in a real estate redevelopment project.
Engaged Faculty Fellowship Program
A yearlong cohort program in which faculty dive deep into the theory and practice of community-engaged learning and scholarship; meet monthly to discuss readings, and share projects and workshop challenges