Amy Howard
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Profile
Amy Howard, associate provost for strategic initiatives and community engagement at the University of Richmond, works to align and advance the University’s strategic academic initiatives to deepen student learning and foster intentional community engagement. In her role, she leads and supports foundational units in strengthening the liberal arts through building critical skills including civic engagement, humanistic inquiry, innovative thinking, engaging arts and culture and understanding sustainability. By connecting learning in and out of the classroom to the physical, cultural, civic and natural work, these opportunities enhance the Spider experience and help prepare students for a life of purpose, meaning, and joy.
She is the author of More than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing 1934-2000 (University of Minnesota, 2014); co-editor, with Robin Bachin, of Engaging Place, Engaging Practices: Urban History and Campus-Community Collaboration (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022), and co-author with Thad Williamson and Julian Hayter, of The Making of 21st Century Richmond: Race, Politics, and Governance (University of North Carolina Press, 2024).
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Presentations
“Essential Engagement: Advancing the Public Purpose of Higher Education,” panel participant, Imagining America Gathering, October 2023
“Civic Participation, Democratic Deliberation, and Community Action: Advancing the Public Purpose of Higher Education” roundtable, American Association of Colleges and Universities annual conference, January 2023
“Structures for Enacting Shared Equity Leadership,” American Council for Education, webinar with panel discussants, March 2022
“Historicizing Richmond’s Future: UR Downtown and the Geography of Community Engagement” part of the “Urban History as Public History: Building Equity in Campus-Community Collaborations” panel, American Historical Association, New Orleans/virtual, February 2022
“Shared Leadership in Higher Education: A Collective Approach to Solving Our Toughest Challenges,” panel presenter, American Association of Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC, January 2022
“Distributed Leadership for Inclusive Excellence,” American Association of Colleges and Universities, Washington, DC, January 2020
“Engaging Place: University of Richmond Downtown,” part of “Engaging Place: The Uses of Urban and Planning History and Civic Engagement in Community Development” panel, Society for American Regional and City Planning History, Cleveland, October 2017
“The Liberal Arts Mind: Tools for the 21st Century and Global Contexts,” panel participant, AAC&U, January 2016
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Community Service
Trustee, Richmond Memorial Health Foundation
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Presentations
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Selected Publications
Books
More than Shelter: Activism and Community in San Francisco Public Housing 1934-2000 (University of Minnesota, 2014)
Engaging Place, Engaging Practices: Urban History and Campus-Community Collaboration, co-edited with Robin Bachin (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022)
The Making of 21st Century Richmond: Race, Politics, and Governance, co-authored with Thad Williamson and Julian Hayter (University of North Carolina Press, 2024)
Journal Articles“Many Spiders, One Web: Distributing Leadership for Inclusive Excellence at the University of Richmond,” co-authored with Ashleigh M. Brock, Patricia Herrera and Glyn Hughes with Ronald A. Crutcher, Jeffrey Legro, and David Hale in Shared Leadership in Higher Education; Responding to a Changing World, edited by Judith Ramaley, Adrianna J. Kezar, Fran Elrod, and Elizabeth M. Holcombe, Stylus, December 2021.
“Community Engagement Professionals at Play: Collaborative Assessment as Culture Change,” Co-authored with Terry Dolson and Sylvia Gale, Journal of Higher Education Engagement and Outreach, 23.1: 2019, 227-246.
“Bringing Life to Learning: Civic Engagement, Intersections, and Transforming College Students,” co-authored with Juliette Landphair and Amanda Lineberry, in Intersectionality in Action: A Guide for Faculty and Campus Leaders for Creating Inclusive Classrooms and Institutions, edited by Brooke Barnett and Peter Felten, Stylus, 2016.
“Reframing public housing in Richmond, Virginia: Segregation, resident resistance and the future of redevelopment”, co-authored with Thad Williamson, Cities: The International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, December 2015.