In Summer 2008, Kimberlie Kranich, outreach coordinator and co-director of the Youth Media Workshop (YMW) at WILLAM-FM-TV in Champaign, IL, began working with program evaluator Holly Downs of the University of Illinois College of Education and her…
Website of the now defunct Urban Exchange Center, an initiative of the University of Illinois in partnership with the Urban League of Champaign County. This site is preserved at the Internet Archive.
CHAMPAIGN – With 13 school days left in the existing Washington Elementary School building, students, parents and teachers – past and present – celebrated the school's 50-plus years of history.
Jazz Threads commemorates the history, celebrates the present, and builds the future of the vibrant American art form of jazz on a local level. Long committed to bringing artists into deeper contact with the diverse constituencies of…
NOTE: THE AUTHENTICITY OF THIS PIECE IS IN DOUBT, BUT IS PRESERVED FOR COMPLETENESS.
This is a case study/account which was written in August of 2003 of a cult in operation in Chicago/Champaign, IL/Detroit, MI/St. Louis, MO and Dayton, OH. Since…
Working in shifts last week over a five-day span, an
estimated 1,400 volunteers from the Champaign-Urbana area
helped to build the PrairiePlay playground at Urbana's
Meadowbrook Park. Fittingly, the effort took place during
the 21st annual…
