 | President Richard C. Levin (left) is pictured with the two other individuals who received this year's Seymour Wilson Community Builder Award from the Hill Development Corporation: Jorge Perez, president of the New Haven Board of Aldermen (center) and Charles Williams, principal of Hill Regional Career High School. |
The Hill Development Corporation (HDC) recently honored President Richard C. Levin for his leadership in building Yale's partnership with the City of New Haven, particularly the Hill neighborhood.
Levin received the HDC's Courtland Seymour Wilson Community Builder Award at a ceremony held Dec. 9. Jorge Perez, president of the New Haven Board of Aldermen, and Charles Williams, principal of Hill Regional Career High School, were also honored at the ceremony.
"Rick Levin has been a true partner and good neighbor," said David Alvarado, HDC's executive director. "We in the Hill neighborhood applaud him and Yale University for the many contributions they have made to building a stronger community."
The HDC award is named in honor of the late Courtland Seymour Wilson, the group's long-serving executive director, and honors his lifelong commitment to promoting affordable housing and community development.
In accepting his award, Levin noted: "Courtland is rightly a legend in our city ... He showed us the way to cooperate, to put aside old animosities, and to come together for the common good. He was someone with vision and tenacity," said Levin, adding, "He taught us how to work as a true neighbor and he taught us that everyone wins when we work together."
The President added: "This award is also meaningful because it comes from the Hill Development Corporation" which, he noted, is one of the most effective community development corporations anywhere in the state of Connecticut, having developed more than 200 affordable rental housing and new homeownership units. "I pledge that Yale University will remain your strong partner for the years ahead," Levin added.
The work being done by Yale University in partnership with the City of New Haven includes the following:
* Since 1994, Yale has helped more than 520 employees buy homes in New Haven neighborhoods, including the Hill. The University has committed $11 million in the Yale Homebuyer Program yielding purchases of homes in New Haven valued at more than $60 million.
* This year, more than 200 students from Hill Regional Career High School are taking science courses with the Yale Schools of Medicine and Nursing as part of one of the many partnerships inspired by Courtland Seymour Wilson and HDC. In recent years, more than 1,200 students from Career High School have studied in Yale programs.
* Twenty-seven biotech companies have grown in New Haven from Yale research. They are at the cutting edge of finding cures for human disease and of creating new jobs and taxes employing more than 1,000 people.
* This summer, more than 500 New Haven young people -- including many from the Hill neighborhood -- participated in free, full-day, academic and athletic programs sponsored by Yale University on campus.
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