What Should Universities Do For Their Cities?
Perspectives On How Gown Can Help Town
Universities often set up shop in cities, and cities often set up shop around universities. But the relationship between the two communities–town and gown–can be quite distant, even hostile. What responsibility does a university have to its local urban community? In advance of “Can Universities Save Cities?,” a Zócalo event, several university scholars and presidents offer some answers.
They should avoid being monastic
Can the ivory tower save a city? Not if it remains an ivory tower. Critical to the enterprise is the extent to which the university is not …
