and this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/22/nyregion/thecity/22manh.html?
ex=1342756800&en=8b256b2e1d8e1c13&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss
Frank
On Aug 2, 2007, at 05:17 PM, UNIVERSITY*CITOYEN wrote:
Ross Bender wrote:
I was just reading an article in the New York Review of Books
titled "The Women and the Gods", a review of "Portrait of a
Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece" when an ad for
books on "Urban Studies from Penn Press" caught my eye. First item
on the list was a book by our own Judy Rodin titled "The
University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the
Streets." I hurried to Amazon.com <http://Amazon.com> and found
this "synopsis":
"In the last quarter of the twentieth century, urban colleges and
universities found themselves enveloped by the poverty, crime, and
physical decline that afflicted American cities. Some institutions
turned inward, trying to insulate themselves rather than address
the problems in their own backyards. Others attempted to develop
better community relations, though changes were hard to sustain.
Spurred by an unprecedented crime wave in 1996, University of
Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin knew that the time for urgent
action had arrived, and she set a new course of proactive
community engagement for her university. Her dedication to the
revitalization of West Philadelphia was guided by her role not
only as president but also as a woman and a mother with a deep
affection for her hometown. The goal was to build capacity back
into a severely distressed inner-city neighborhood - educational
capacity, retail capacity, quality-of-life capacity, and
especially economic capacity - guided by the belief that "town and
gown" could unite as one richly diverse community. Cities rely on
their academic institutions as stable places of employment,
cultural centers, civic partners, and concentrated populations of
consumers for local business and services. And a competitive
university demands a vibrant neighborhood to meet the needs of its
faculty, staff, and students. In keeping with their mission, urban
universities are uniquely positioned to lead their communities in
revitalization efforts, yet this effort requires resolute
persistence. During Rodin's administration (1994-2004), the
Chronicle of Higher Education referred to Penn's progress as a
"national model of constructive town-gown interaction and
partnership." This book narrates the challenges, frustrations, and
successes of Penn's campaign, and its prospects for long-term
change."
Apart from the fact that Judy blatantly ripped off the slogan "Out
of the closet and into the streets", I was shocked and appalled
that the myth of Judy as the savior of West Philly has now been
packaged in a 224 page, cloth-bound book, only $34.95.
Anybody want to go in with me to buy the book so we can have a
public burning at the Turtle in Clark Park? If ten of us chip in,
that'll only be about 3 and a half bucks apiece. If twenty of us
chip in, even less.
So now Judy is enshrined as a goddess, who rode the winged horse
"Market Forces" into our nasty ghetto hood and and "built capacity
back into a severely distressed inner-city neighborhood". Makes me
wanna hurl chunks.
some articles have just appeared that relate to all this:
http://gothamist.com/2007/08/01/columbia_may_ta.php
> Columbia May Take Some Expansion Cues From Penn
http://www.observer.com/2007/can-t-we-all-just-get-along?page=0%2C1
> Can't We All Just Get Along?
>
> Judith Rodin transformed the relationship between the
> University of Pennsylvania and its Philadelphia
> neighborhood. What can she teach Lee Bollinger about
> Columbia and Harlem?
..................
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