Davarian L Baldwin, "In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities" (Bold Type Press, 2021)
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The Role of the President in Changing the Face of the University
In the nineties, trinity hired a gentleman by the name of evendo bell. He had worked under jimmy carter at one point, that he was a republican mayor of a small city massachusets on the point. And so it began with quite auspicious aspirations to do the right thing, but he was big on talk and low on resources. So what ultimately happen is that it failed and stopped in mid construction. Then most of the faculty and the board, who were never on board in the first place, they rere reincerted the notion of we are not a social work programme. We are a liberal arts institution. Ando what that meant for them
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