"Baltimore's Big 3" lecture series welcomes urban policy expert David Rusk on Dec. 6 Author and urban policy expert David Rusk will speak at Loyola College on Wednesday, Dec. 6 as part of the College’s “Baltimore’s Big 3: The State of Health, Housing and Education in the City” lecture series. The lecture begins at 7:30 p.m. in McGuire Hall West on the College’s North Charles Street campus. Doors open at 7 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. Rusk, author of Baltimore Unbound, Cities without Suburbs, and Inside Game/Outside Game, has served as an adviser to BRIDGE, a Baltimore-area faith-based coalition, since its founding in 2001. He is a member of the Baltimore Regional Housing Coalition and formerly served as a member of the Baltimore City Council-appointed Task Force on Inclusionary Zoning and Housing. Now an independent consultant on urban and suburban policy, Rusk has advised more than 120 American communities, as well as Johannesburg, Capetown and Durban, South Africa. From 1977 to 1981, he served as Mayor of Albuquerque, NM, America’s 36th -largest city. Rusk also held positions in the New Mexico state legislature and the U.S. Department of Labor. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley in 1962 as the outstanding undergraduate student in economics. The series began on Nov. 29 with a presentation on health by City Health Commissioner Dr. Joshua Sharfstein and will conclude on March 13, 2007 with a lecture on education by Marion Orr, the Fred Lippitt Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Political Science and Urban Studies at Brown University and author of Black Social Capital: The Politics of School Reform in Baltimore.
The events are free, but reservations are required. For more information or to register, please call 410-617-5700. |
