Great Universities and Their Cities

Ò Great Universities and Their Cities Proceedings of A Colloquium at Case Western Reserve University On the Occasion of the Inauguration of Edward M. Hundert, M.D., as President of the University January 31, 2003 Ò A Colloquium at Case Western Reserve University on the Occasion of the Inauguration of Edward M. Hundert, M.D., as President of the University January 31, 2003 Great Universities and Their Cities Section Introduction Universities and Cities: Symbiosis The Hon. Jane L. Campbell and Edward M. Hundert Introduction Keynote Universities and Cities: The View from New Haven Address Richard C. Levin Keynote Breakout Downtown Revitalization: Yale University and the City of New Haven Sessions Richard C. Levin and Anthony P. Rescigno A Human Resource Development: The University of Illinois at Chicago and the City of Chicago Sylvia Manning and Benjamin Kendrick B Life Sciences: Washington University and the City of St. Louis Mark Stephen Wrighton and John P. Dubinsky C Regional Technology Transfer: Virginia Commonwealth University and the City of Richmond Eugene P. Trani and the Hon. Rudolph C. McCollum D Housing, Community Building, and Economic Development: Johns Hopkins University and the City of Baltimore William R. Brody and Burton Sonenstein E Cultural and Artistic Development: York University and the City of Toronto Lorna Marsden and the Hon. David H. Tsubouchi F K-12 and Continuing Education: Clark University and the City of Worcester John E. Bassett and James Caradonio G Race Relations: Fisk University and the City of Nashville Carolynn Reed Wallace and the Hon. Bill Purcell H Healthy Cities: The University of Rochester and the City of Rochester Thomas H. Jackson and the Hon. William A. Johnson, Jr. I Appendices Biographical Sketches of Participants Profiles Roster of Attendees Attendees Note Edited by Richard E. Baznik, Director of the Institute for the Study of the University in Society, Case Western Reserve University. October 2003. Introduction Universities and Cities: Symbiosis Hon. Jane L. Campbell, Mayor of Cleveland Edward M. Hundert, M.D., President of Case Western Reserve University NIVERSITIES have emerged as key engines Canada heard – and contributed to – discussions of of change and development in modern how best to achieve this vision. The session co- Usociety, in part because continued chairs and moderators then joined Neal Conan, economic stability depends increasingly on a base host of National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation, of advanced knowledge that is continuously being for a round-up discussion on the stage of extended and applied by a population of educated Severance Hall at the end of the program. persons. At the same time, the role of cities is The goal of this colloquium was to make it undergoing important change as technology possible for all participants to leave with a stronger eliminates traditional requirements of location and and more informed commitment to creating scheduling, with accompanying growth in cohesion and alliances among great universities suburban and exurban populations and economies. and their cities, and greater appreciation for the These patterns carry implications for virtually enormous benefits that these relationships can every aspect of individual achievement and social bring to all concerned. As this record of the interaction, and for cities as well as universities. discussions will attest, the program provided ample Cities need their universities: content and encouragement for achieving this goal. As economic generators in the knowledge- The motivation to make it happen – to convert driven economy these aspirations into value through partnerships in communities – must arise from the leadership of To anchor and sustain surrounding individual universities and their cities, however. neighborhoods through employment, purchasing, and direct involvement in Case Western Reserve University and the City development of Cleveland intend to forge the partnerships to make that happen here. We are focusing on four To be resources for improving quality of areas of activity, reflecting in each what we have life, from health care to human resource learned form the exchange of ideas that took place development to stimulating the arts and at this colloquium: culture Technology transfer and regional economic Universities need strong cities around them: development To attract and keep top faculty and students Healthy Cleveland, with an emphasis on As sources of experiences that can both school-based health programs enhance and test learning across a wide Cultural and artistic development range of disciplines Neighborhood revitalization, including To provide interaction with the university's housing, K-12 education, human resource research efforts, including application of development, and race relations research results through commercialization and other activities We thank all those who joined us in this colloquium and who by their presentations and The most effective universities of the next their comments contributed to a magnificent generation will be those that can serve as catalysts illustration of the collective power of great for vitality in their regions. In the plenary and universities and their cities. breakout sessions of this colloquium, the nearly 900 participants from throughout this country and Introduction - 1 Keynote Address Universities and Cities: The View from New Haven Richard C. Levin, President of Yale University In 1826, David Hudson founded a school in speeches, a large university contributes to the what had been known as the Western Reserve of wider community's well-being by its very Connecticut. He brought to the task the ideas and presence: by attracting external research funding ambitions of the Connecticut institution he took as and creating jobs, by purchasing locally-provided his model. For even in those early years of the goods and services, by bringing to the community Republic, Yale aspired to become something more highly educated citizens who tend to care about, than the collegiate school founded in 1701 to and contribute to, the quality of the city's schools educate young Puritans for "service in Church and and cultural life. But, as President Hundert has Civil State." Under the leadership of Timothy noted, these passive contributions are not enough. Dwight, Yale had begun the transition from college By adopting active strategies for civic to university--opening a medical school and improvement, by becoming engaged institutional appointing the nation's first professor of natural citizens, we can make a major difference in the science and its first professor of law. In the wake quality of urban life. Such engagement is of these developments, the "Yale of the West" was consistent with the goals of institutions that have established in the state of Ohio. for centuries educated students for public service. Today, I am honored to have the opportunity to It also benefits universities to the extent that an bring to Cleveland some of the new ideas and improved quality of urban life helps to attract the ambitions of Case Western Reserve's mother best students and faculty from around the world. institution, as you formally charge a Yale graduate My task this morning is to relate to you the with the responsibility of leadership. I bring story of Yale's partnership with the city of New sincere congratulations to Ed Hundert and warm Haven. Over the past decade this partnership has greetings to Mayor Jane Campbell. contributed substantially to the renaissance of a I am delighted that President Hundert chose to city that was suffering from the absence of devote this day of his inauguration to a discussion industrial investment and job creation, a partially- of how universities can contribute to the abandoned downtown, blighted neighborhoods, advancement of their host cities. From the late and an unflattering external image. In the two nineteenth century through the mid-twentieth, years before I became president, a student was industrial firms, financial institutions, and public murdered on our campus and a major national utilities were typically the largest employers in magazine conveyed the impression that violent most of our cities. In recent decades, however, as teen-age drug gangs ruled the streets. By contrast, manufacturing jobs migrated out of cities and as last year, a feature article in the New York Times banks and public utilities consolidated, universities travel section called New Haven "an irresistible and their associated medical centers have grown to destination." become the largest employers in a surprising Outsiders have long regarded the presence of number of our cities. I am not talking simply of Yale as one of the city's major assets, but, except New Haven, Cambridge, Columbus, Ann Arbor, for episodic engagement, the University's and Bloomington; I am referring also to contributions to the community did not derive from Philadelphia, Boston, San Francisco, and an active, conscious strategy of urban citizenship. Birmingham, Alabama. It is true that our students, for more than a century, With the increased local prominence of have played a highly constructive role as universities comes increased responsibility. As volunteers. Even a decade ago, two thousand President Hundert has recognized in recent students volunteered regularly in schools, Keynote - 1 In a city with only one wealthy institution, and one that historically had been indifferent to local conditions, we had generations of distrust to overcome. community centers,

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