The Carol R. Goldberg Seminars

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Click the cover to visit the website for A New Era of Higher Education-Community Partnerships, a report of the Carol R. Goldberg Seminar on "The Role and Impact of Colleges and Universities in Greater Boston Today." You can read additional material not contained in the printed report and download a PDF version of the full report.

The Carol R. Goldberg Seminars

The Carol R. Goldberg Seminar is a periodic convening of local business, government, academic, civic, and community leaders that raises awareness about critical civic issues and offers a roadmap by which leaders might achieve progress against those issues. Launched in the 1980s by Carol R. Goldberg, President of the AVCAR Group, Ltd., in collaboration with Robert M. Hollister of Tufts University’s College of Citizenship and Public Service, and funded by the Boston Foundation, the Seminar has a proud history of acting as a catalyst for important civic initiatives.

In 2003, the Goldberg Seminar was reconvened to examine the role and impact of colleges and universities in Greater Boston. This topic was chosen in recognition of the increasingly important function of academia in today’s knowledge economy and civic life. The Seminar also sought to provide a context for a growing chorus of calls for colleges and universities to exert more active civic leadership in the wake of recent corporate mergers and acquisitions. Ultimately, the Seminar sought to better quantify the emerging trend toward higher education-community partnerships and help local leaders continue to move beyond historic town-gown tensions. The Seminar was chaired by Richard M. Freeland, President of Northeastern University, and Thomas Finneran, President of the Massachusetts Biotechnology Council and guided by a steering committee.

The Seminar's work is outlined in a report: "A New Era of Higher Education-Community Partnerships: The Role and Impact of Colleges and Universities in Greater Boston Today." Read the main findings and recommendations of this report.

	Past Goldberg Seminar Reports
	Boston At Risk focused on the complex issue of primary health care in Boston in the 1980s, drawing early attention to the thousands of people without health insurance in the city. The report led to the development of the Healthy Baby/Health Child Program, still an important public health program 20 years later.		The Greening of Boston is one of America’s most highly-regarded blueprints for restoring urban parks and open spaces. The action agenda it proposed helped to bring about a doubling of the city’s maintenance budget, drew attention to the importance of open space, and paved the way for a dramatic parks turnaround in the city.
	Embracing Our Future: A Child Care Action Agenda helped to draw attention to the crisis in child care, and gave advocates for children’s services new information and ideas about how to strengthen the entire field and professionalize child care workers.		The Future of Boston Area Nonprofits studied the strengths and weaknesses of the third sector toward the end of the 20th century, and encouraged the development of new partnerships and collaborations among nonprofit organizations.