When Your City Becomes a Campus: Life in the Shadows of the Ivory Tower
The Department of History welcomes Dr. Davarian L. Baldwin, the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Founding Director of the Smart Cities Research Lab at Trinity College, as he delves in to the interconnections of gentrification and higher education in urban America.
Right before our eyes, colleges and universities have become the biggest landholders, employers, healthcare providers and even policing agents in cities and towns across the country. What are the consequences when the city becomes a campus? In his recent book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower, Davarian L. Baldwin explores higher education’s growing control over urban America and the costs for those living in the shadows.
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