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Urban Resources Initiative: A University Model for Clinical Urban Forestry Education

Caroline N. Scanlan, Danica A. Doroski, Colleen Murphy-Dunning and Mark P. Ashton
Arboriculture & Urban Forestry (AUF) January 2021, 47 (1) 34-50; DOI: https://doi.org/10.48044/jauf.2021.004
Caroline N. Scanlan
Caroline N. Scanlan, MF (corresponding author), Urban Resources Initiative, 301 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, USA, 203-432-6189
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Danica A. Doroski
Danica A. Doroski, MFS, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, USA
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Colleen Murphy-Dunning
Colleen Murphy-Dunning, MS, Urban Resources Initiative, 301 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, USA
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Mark P. Ashton
Mark P. Ashton, PhD, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, 195 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT, USA
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Caroline N. Scanlan, Danica A. Doroski, Colleen Murphy-Dunning, Mark P. Ashton
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    • Appendix 1. Anonymous online survey administered to former Urban Resources Initiative (URI) interns in Spring 2018 via Google Forms.
    • Appendix 2. Urban Issues: relevant excerpts. Urban Issues is URI’s semiannual newsletter and its archives provide a record of URI’s program history as well as documentation of student reflections from their urban forestry internships. Twenty-four Urban Issues articles published between fall 2001 and fall 2017 explicitly report on student learning outcomes. A selection of relevant excerpts is reprinted below.
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