SERVES: Primarily Twin Cities College and University Faculty

PURPOSE: For more than a decade, CURA has served as a temporary home for incipient projects and visiting scholars. Typically they receive outside funding and work on projects concerning public policy in Minnesota. Generally CURA provides office space and an environment that supports their project, and often publishes the results of their research.

Previous visiting scholars have included:

• George Orning, a land-use consultant who led the Sustainable Lakes Project
• Jim Solem, former regional administrator for the Metropolitan Council, who continues to lead the City Innovations project
• William Johnson, a political scientist at Bethel College who wrote a book about the Metropolitan Council’s experience with growth management, which CURA subsequently published
• Phil Wichern, a political scientist who studied metropolitan government in the Twin Cities
• Oliver Byrum, who wrote a book about planning strategies for mid-sized cities
• Ron Kroese, who researched how agriculture became an industry following World War II
• Charlie Warner, who developed data on the vanishing stock of low-income housing in Minnesota and helped create the Minnesota Housing Partnership
• Howard Mielke, who created the Lead Toxicity Project, which produced an analysis and maps of the lead content in Twin Cities soils

HOW TO APPLY: For more information about visiting scholar opportunities:

Contact Ed Goetz by phone at 612-624-8737 or by e-mail.