Baltimore's Big 3 Lecture Series welcomes education policy expert Marion Orr Marion Orr, the Fred Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University, will speak at Loyola College in Maryland on Tuesday, March 13 as part of the College’s “Baltimore’s Big Three: The State of Health, Housing and Education in the City” lecture series. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in McGuire Hall on the College’s North Charles Street campus. Doors open at 6:30 p.m., and light refreshments will be available. As part of Loyola’s ongoing commitment to exploring and promoting justice and the College’s Year of the City initiative reaffirming Loyola’s relationship with the City of Baltimore, Loyola’s Center for Community Service and Justice, Office of Academic Affairs and Diversity and Council of Academic Deans have joined together to sponsor the series, designed to examine three of the City’s most pressing challenges. Orr is the author of two books, Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore, which won the Policy Studies Organization’s Aaron Wildavsky Award for the best book published in 1999, and The Color of School Reform: Race, Politics and the Challenge of Urban Education, which was named the best book in 1999 by the American Political Science Association’s (ASPA) Urban Politics Section. He also edited Transforming the City: Community Organizing and the Challenge of Political Change. From 2003-04, Orr served as President of the ASPA’s Organized Section on Urban Politics. He was also an elected member of the Governing Board of the Urban Affairs Association (UAA) from 2000-06, and served as chair from 2005-06. Orr holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Savannah State College, master’s degree in Political Science from what is now Clark-Atlanta College, and a Ph.D. in Government and Politics from the University of Maryland, College Park. The series began on Nov. 29 with a presentation on health by City Health Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sharfstein and continued on Dec. 6 with a lecture on housing by David Rusk, an urban and suburban policy consultant. The event is free, but reservations are required. For more information or to register, please call 410-617-5700 or visit www.loyola.edu/big3. Persons with disabilities who may require special services should contact the Office of Disability Support Services at 410-617-2062 or (TDD) 410-617-2141 at least 48 hours prior to the event. | 
