Metropolitics

Can Universities Learn to Leave Behind Air Travel?

Tamara Ben Ari & Parke Wilde — 2024-10-22T05:00:00Z

At a time when global research is showing that aviation is a carbon-intensive form of transport whose growth absolutely must be stopped, shouldn't universities be the first to set an example? But can researchers, especially the youngest ones, do without these trips for their careers? How can researchers continue to work together, and what criteria should govern their behaviour?
Interview conducted by Thomas Évariste (for the Mobile Lives Forum), and Jean-Baptiste Frétigny, Maxime Huré and

- Interviews / aviation, mobility, university, Covid-19, climate change, research

Education Myths, Black Self-Determination, and University Accountability to the City

Christopher R. Rogers & Laura Wolf-Powers — 2024-03-08T06:00:00Z

Laura Wolf-Powers interviews scholar and community organizer Chris Rogers about his extensive work in Philadelphia. They discuss his journey to Penn and activism against the University of Pennsylvania's “parasitic relationship to Black Philadelphia,” including policing on campus, housing struggles, and efforts for payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTs).
---- Series: Black Power and Black Self-Determination in a New Time and New Spaces I'm Laura Wolf-Powers, a professor of urban planning at CUNY

- Interviews / Philadelphia, education, Black Lives Matter, Black politics, university, self-determination, housing, activism, Black Power, Movement for Black Lives

The Black Radical Imagination in a Rural Forgotten Space

Brad Stephens & Chris Stephenson & Max O. Stephenson Jr. — 2024-01-16T06:00:00Z

How does the Black Radical imagination manifest in “forgotten places” amid shifting populations? Brad Stephens, Chris Stephenson, and Max Stephenson, Jr., attend to this question by considering the role of “communitas” in the work of St. Paul's College 4 Life, a group working to reimagine the possibilities for a shuttered historically Black college in rural Lawrenceville, Virginia.
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- From the Field / Black Power, Black politics, university, space, race, Blackness, United States, Virginia

Projecting Supply and Demand for Middle-Skill Occupations in US States and Metro Areas

James Orr & Ofronama Biu — 2017-10-10T12:34:48Z

Analysts have long noted difficulties in quantifying and projecting skill mismatches in local labor markets. Workforce development providers and community colleges have led the way in responding to this challenge, particularly when it comes to middle-skill jobs, or jobs that require more than a high-school diploma but less than a bachelor's degree. In this article, James Orr and Ofronama Biu probe the methodologies local practitioners use to define middle-skill occupations and to understand the

- From the Field / United States, employment, work, methodology, metropolitan areas, education, training, university, workforce, middle-skill occupations, jobs, qualifications, community college, labor markets

Building a Multifaceted Campaign for Public Higher Education

Stephen Brier & Michael Fabricant — 2016-10-04T06:39:27Z

In their new book, Austerity Blues: Fighting for the Soul of Public Higher Education, Michael Fabricant and Stephen Brier trace the waning support for public higher education and its deleterious effects on students, faculty, and American society at large. Here, they reflect on what helped the Professional Staff Congress at the City University of New York win the most recent round in the fight for public higher education at a time when greater access to public universities is sorely needed to

- From the Field / participation, inequalities, United States, media, New York, public policy, protest, education, public action, public education, mobilization, higher education, university, austerity, budget cuts, public investment, CUNY