1312: When universities swallow cities / Davarian L. Baldwin

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🗓️ 29 March 2021

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Urbanist Davarian L. Baldwin on the dynamics between urban universities and the communities outside their walls, and his book "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" from Bold Type Books. https://www.boldtypebooks.com/titles/davarian-l-baldwin/in-the-shadow-of-the-ivory-tower/9781568588919/

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0:50.0	Universities are a public good.
0:53.0	Our radio show is broadcast on a university radio station.
0:56.0	Universities inject into every community they enter,
0:59.3	an institution of higher education and enlightenment, bringing with them and invigorated culture in
1:04.6	society, attracting academics and artists from the world over.
1:09.1	Universities provide students, students with spending money and the contributions by universities to especially urban neighborhoods surrounding campuses and cities across the United States
1:18.0	is both seemingly incalculable and mutually beneficial between the university and the people who live near them.
1:25.0	While that may have been true in the past, the university is no longer a public good due to neoliberal demands to beginning in the late 1970s and continuing to the state to cut taxes at all costs.
1:38.0	Even if that means slashing federal funding for giving the next generation access to a good education by cutting
1:44.7	that funding universities had to seek money elsewhere, which meant becoming a for-profit
1:49.9	business in order to survive, abandoning any sense of being a public good.
1:54.8	The outcome has been universities becoming like any other exploitative for-profit business,
1:59.4	seeking the lowest wages for workers, and investing in things like local real estate where they had a built-in tax-exempt
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