  We advocate meaningful support of sustained education-outreach partnerships
between regional metropolitan undergraduate institutions and astronomical clubs
and societies. We present our experience as an example, in which we have grown
a partnership between the University of Michigan-Dearborn (hereafter UM-D, a
4-year primarily undergraduate institution or PUI), Henry Ford College
(hereafter HFC, a 2-year undergraduate college), and maintained a strong
collaboration with the Ford Amateur Astronomy Club (FAAC), which is highly
active in the Detroit Metropolitan Area. By allowing each organization to play
to its strengths, we have developed a continuum of education-outreach efforts
at all levels, with connecting tissue between the previously disparate efforts.
To-date, faculty and staff effort on these initiatives has been nearly entirely
voluntary and somewhat ad-hoc. Here we suggest an initiative to sustain the
continuum of education-outreach for the long-term. There are two levels to the
suggested initiative. Firstly, partner institutions should dedicate at least
half an FTE of faculty or staff effort specifically to education and outreach
development. Secondly, professional societies like the AAS now have a great
opportunity to support the education-outreach continuum at a national level, by
facilitating communication between institutions and clubs that are considering
a long-term partnership, by acting as a central resource for such partnerships,
and possibly by convening or sponsoring events such as professional meetings
among the metropolitan educational community.
