This document summarizes Ricardo Ball's experience with the Community Learning Initiative (CLI) program at Trinity College. It discusses interviews with CLI director Lucy Ansalmi and a CLI success story involving a literacy program for local children. Ball's own CLI project involved working with a local civic association. The document also compares Trinity College's relationship with the surrounding Hartford neighborhoods to the University of Chicago model of employer-assisted housing. It proposes possible solutions Trinity could implement using its own resources, such as holding property owners accountable and creating an information system for vacant properties.

1. Creating a Thread between
Hartford and Trinity College
Ricardo Ball
12/11/17
Professor Gieseking
Digital Cities

2. CLI experience
Anselmi

3. Anselmi inteview
• Learn Content in areas That wont be learned in
class
• Make Students have a sense of empowerment,
connecting to the community
• Gets students out of their comfort zone– creative
work produced—”not solving world hunger”
• Community partners always changing
• Effective in finding needs that the community
doesn’t necessarily realize

4. Success story:
Community
problem:
Children's lack of
literacy
01
Student spoke to
teachers at schools
surrounding trinity
02
Program initiated:
“Ready to Read”
03
At least one book
in the home
04
Raised money and
has continued
05

5. My Experience with CLI
• Anselmi Asked what my experience was
• Neighborhood Revitalization Zone West End Civics
Association (WECA)
• Plans for Farmington avenue
• Helped people on Food stamps have access to
Farmers Market
• Bridged Psychological Gap between going to Hartford
or “going to west farms Mall – depends on the
quality of the experience

6. CLI, FrogHollow, Trinity College

7. University Of Chicago
model
• Urban universities have more trouble
integrating than colleges with a whole
town to themselves
• “The urban campuses have
neighborhoods that have grown around
them and that have changed over time
as middle-class Americans moved to
suburbs and city cores struggled with
poverty and crime.”

8. • In many college towns, employees and students
hope to find somewhere to live that’s walking
distance from the university; in the area around
the University of Chicago, which has 15,000
employees, there’s a surfeit of vacant and
abandoned homes that could be rehabbed if
only they had less-murky title histories.
• Getting people into the vacant and abandoned
homes in the area, planners say, could help
attract more retail to the neighborhood and
also reduce crime.
• Employer Assisted Housing – Tool for University
of Chicago

9. Difference between
University of Chicago and
Trinity College
• Trinity college does not have a $6
billion endowment
• The surrounding neighborhoods have
more tax benefits
• University of Chicago launched its
employer-assisted housing program
in 2003, it has had 230 employees
receive assistance to purchase homes
in Woodlawn ($10,000 if they buy in
the Woodlawn focus area)
• West Hartford (60 billion donation
2017)

10. Possible Solution with Resources Available at
Trinity College
1
Hold Land Owners
accountable
2
Mapping system and
regulatory system
of “zombie properties”

11. Framing of the Trinity Website: Information
Architecture (AI)

12. Hartford VS Trinity College: Honest Truth
• Acceptance of identity
• Renewal of aid and targeted assertions
• Integrated Mapping on community
• Parental planning
• Clinics and other health services
• Have Resources for The Hartford community Make the Hartford
Community rely on the Trinity Website

13. Taxonomy 1

14. More Taxonomy

15. Choreography

16. Thank you Erick Peña
Erick interviewed
Ansalmi with me and
helped me reach out to
her 2013 class