Davarian Baldwin (Trinity College): "When Your City Becomes a Campus: Life in the Shadows of the Ivory Tower"

    College of Liberal Arts

    In his recent book, In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities are Plundering our Cities, Davarian L. Baldwin, Trinity College, explores higher education's growing influence over the economic development and political governance of urban America. In this talk, Baldwin will situate the local Philadelphia experience within the larger national story of the rise of “UniverCities."