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Center for Community Development and Design (C2D2)
Mission
C2D2 supports West Virginia's communities through outreach activities in teaching and research.
The WVU Community Design Team (CDT)
The CDT was initiated in 1997 by WVU Extension in cooperation with faculty from across the university. It has provided services to communities in over one-half of West Virginia's 55 counties. In 2000 it received the WV Governor's Service Award. The CDT provides interdisciplinary teams who study issues identified by communities and develops ideas, designs, and plans. Communities apply for these services and must meet certain requirements. The CDT has also worked cooperatively with the Recruitable Community Program of WVU's Health Sciences Campus, which aims to improve livability in rural WV communities to make them more attractive to health care professionals. Since 1999 the CDT has been administered by the Division of Resource Management on behalf of WVU Extension and the university. Financial support for the CDT comes from fees charged for services, WVU Extension, and the Division of Resource Management. Faculty and students from many divisions and departments at WVU, and individuals from state and federal agencies and the private sector serve as volunteers on CDT site visit teams, report writers, and co-authors of proposals to external funding agencies.
Several CDT site visits have led to projects being implemented and changes made in communities. Several successful grant application by communities for funding for infrastructure and other improvements have been based on ideas and information developed during a CDT site visit.
- CDT Report from Visit to Mount Hope, Fayette County, WV, October 5-8, 2006 (PDF file, 7.8MB)
- CDT Report from Visit to Union, Monroe County, WV, June 15-17, 2006 (PDF file, 4.54MB)
- CDT Report from Visit to Point Marion, PA, March 2006 (PDF file, 2.9 MB)
- CDT Application Form (PDF file, 126 KB)
- CDT Application Manual (PDF file, 410 KB)
Community-Based Research (supported by C.W. Benedum Foundation)
This is a cooperative project of WVU Extension, the WVU Office of Service Learning, WVU Entrepreneurship Center, and the Division of Resource Management, as University partners, and Lightstone Community Development Corporation and various community leaders and agencies as community partners. The project's major goal is to enhance entrepreneurial opportunties in West Virginia Communities.
Selected Other Projects and Faculty Volunteer Work
Professor McBride, 2002: Revitatlization Planning for the Falling Run Neighborhood in Morgantown
Professor McBride, 2001:Neighborhood Revitalization in Fairmont
Professor Longenecker, Coordinator, Summer Landscape Internship Program, Falling Water, Mill Run, PA
Professor Armstrong, Ongoing: Coordinator, Summer Master Gardening Class, on behalf of WV Garden Club (link to Garden Club of America)
Professor Armstrong, 1999: Design for Morgantown Municipal Airport (1999)
Professor Karther, 2001-2003; Design for Star City, WV, Riverfront Redevelopment. This design was features in Landscape Magazine.
Professor Longenecker, Ongoing: Executive Director and President, WV Botanic Garden
Research-Aquaculture Project
Link to Fish T
ales newsletters, starting with Spring 2003 (quarterly)
Fee Fishing in West Virginia (pdf file)
Growing trout in treated mine water (pdf file, Winter 2001)
Research-Natural Resource Analysis Laboratory
Training for GIS Specialists
List of Projects
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