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When Your City Becomes a Campus: What Good is Higher Education for Cities?
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- Learning Commons Town Hall
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When Your City Becomes a Campus: What Good is Higher Education for Cities?
History Club
Wednesday, May 1, 2024
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Learning Commons
Join guest speaker Davarian L. Baldwin (Trinity College, Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies), in conversation with Joshua Davis (UBalt, associate professor of History) and Nicole King (UMBC, associate professor of American Studies). With an eye to local developments like Johns Hopkins’ Eager Park and the University of Maryland at Baltimore’s BioPark, Professor Baldwin will discuss what he calls the rise of UniverCities—higher education’s growing control over the economic development and political governance of urban America in areas like housing, labor, healthcare, and policing—as he examines the cost to communities and what the way forward is. Davarian L. Baldwin is an internationally recognized scholar, author, and public advocate. He is the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut. His academic and political commitments have focused on global cities and particularly the diverse and marginalized communities that struggle to maintain sustainable lives in urban locales. Baldwin is the award-winning author of several books, most recently, In The Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities, and served as the consultant and text author for The World of the Harlem Renaissance: A Jigsaw Puzzle (2022).
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- Contact Name:
- Lexzander Ernst
- Contact Email:
- lexzander.ernst@ubalt.edu
- Contact Phone:
- 410.837.5417
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