Universities and Their Cities: Urban Higher Education in America 

Today, a majority of American college students attend school in cities. But throughout the nineteenth and much of the twentieth century, urban colleges and universities faced deep hostility from writers, intellectuals, government officials, and educators who were concerned about the impact of cities, immigrants, and commuter students on college education.  

Join us on Wednesday March 29th, 5:30pm-6:45pm, for a lecture by Rutgers Professor Steven Diner exploring his new book on the roots of American colleges’ traditional rural bias. Why were so many people uncomfortable with nonresident students? How were urban universities influenced by their cities? And how did much-maligned urban universities go on to shape contemporary higher education?