The formal ambitions and societal expectations of anchor institutions have shifted over time. Many universities have evolved from walled-off enclaves, to self-interested urban redevelopers, to mutual gain negotiators. Detailed accounts exist of universities, as anchor institutions, directly displacing low-income communities of color by utilizing the higher education provisions of urban renewal. This case study of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, adds to this history by documenting the university’s contribution to the diminution of a working-class neighborhood of color specifically through student residency philosophies and policies, enrollment expansion, and real-estate decisions, during 1937–1987. Brown University’s choices played out in a neighborhood already scarred by interstate highway construction and urban renewal. Drawing from primary source materials on institutional decision-making this work examines the transformation of Brown University’s models of student housing amidst evolving community concerns about the demolition of historic properties and push back around increasing displacement pressures. Several issues and research directions for the new era of equity centered anchor work emerge from this historical recounting of an anchor institution’s student housing choices.

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学生住房选择和社区变化：布朗大学，1937年至1987年

随着时间的推移，锚定机构的正式野心和社会期望发生了变化。许多大学已经从隔离的飞地发展到对自己有利的城市重建者，再到互惠谈判者。大学的详细资料作为锚定机构，通过利用城市更新的高等教育规定直接取代了低收入的有色人种社区。罗德岛普罗维登斯布朗大学的这个案例研究通过记录该大学对减少工人阶级色彩社区的贡献，特别是通过学生居住地的哲学和政策，扩招和房地产决策，在此过程中增加了这一历史1937年至1987年。布朗大学的选择在一个已经因州际公路建设和城市更新而伤痕累累的社区中发挥了作用。借助有关机构决策的主要原始资料，这项工作研究了布朗大学在学生居住模式演变中的转变，这是由于社区对历史建筑的拆除问题日益关注，并在不断增加的流离失所压力方面做出了回应。从以历史为中心对锚定机构的学生住房选择进行回顾，得出了以股权为中心的锚定工作新时代的若干问题和研究方向。