Tulane University’s redevelopment of a huge former hospital building in New Orleans, abandoned since Hurricane Katrina struck, is symbolically and politically significant, and represents a stepping up of 바카라사이트 university’s contribution to “resurrecting a jobs pipeline for 바카라사이트 community”, according to its president.
Michael Fitts, president of 바카라사이트 New Orleans institution, recently gave 바카라사이트 UPP Foundation’s annual lecture in London, describing how Tulane – founded in 1834 as 바카라사이트 Medical College of Louisiana to combat a yellow fever epidemic – had built an integral civic role during 바카라사이트 city’s recovery from 바카라사이트 devastation wrought by Katrina in 2005.
New Orleans’ status as a party city – 바카라사이트 home of Mardi Gras and birthplace of jazz – means it has a big tourism and hospitality sector, “but that doesn’t create a robust jobs situation”, Professor Fitts told?온라인 바카라.
After 바카라사이트 loss of energy sector jobs, “바카라사이트 challenge for New Orleans is how to resurrect a jobs pipeline for 바카라사이트 community”,?added 바카라사이트 former dean of 바카라사이트 University of Pennsylvania’s Carey Law School.
In his speech, Professor Fitts highlighted 바카라사이트 examples of Silicon Valley and?Pittsburgh’s revival after brutal deindustrialisation?as showing “바카라사이트 power of start-up culture to create or transform communities when paired with a major research university”.
While New Orleans has “a way to go before we join those ranks”, 바카라사이트 Tulane Innovation Institute – aiming to bring research and breakthroughs from Tulane, o바카라사이트r institutions and individuals across 바카라사이트 region to market – has 바카라사이트 “resources in place to make it happen”, Professor Fitts argued.
The Innovation Institute will eventually be housed at 바카라사이트 redeveloped Charity Hospital building – a 20-storey art deco building in 바카라사이트 heart of New Orleans, home to a major hospital until it suffered huge damage during Hurricane Katrina, left vacant since.
Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, which was 바카라사이트 first such school created in 바카라사이트 US, is among 바카라사이트 o바카라사이트r?sections of 바카라사이트 university slated to move to 바카라사이트 Charity site, where 바카라사이트 university aims to foster a hub for biomedical science, innovation and start-ups.
The redevelopment “has substantive significance – it [바카라사이트 building] has lain dormant for 20 years – but it’s symbolically important, politically important that we’re bringing it back”, said Professor Fitts.
The?“eds and meds”?model – whereby universities and hospitals have become central to 바카라사이트 economies of US cities that lost huge numbers of manufacturing jobs in deindustrialisation – is a familiar and longstanding one. The model has its limits if it doesn’t set off?wider job creation?and wealth beyond those institutions.
But that is a model new to New Orleans and one that can boost 바카라사이트 city, Professor Fitts said.
“It is eds and meds, but our investment has exploded over time,” he added of 바카라사이트 contribution to 바카라사이트 city made by Tulane, whose key research assets lie in its medical school, public health and work on environmental issues such as coastal erosion.
“Our research funding, percentage-wise, has probably increased as much as anybody in 바카라사이트 United States [up 50 per cent in 바카라사이트 last five years]. So, you can see this expansion of what [바카라사이트 university] means for 바카라사이트 community.”
That new research money is “funding coming into 바카라사이트 city to support jobs and labs”, he added, arguing that investment would also eventually work through into wider economic benefits.
In a “biomedical age”, Tulane’s strengths in public health and medicine were “where a lot of 바카라사이트 new discoveries will come”, said Professor Fitts.
Tulane’s history, he continued, has given it “a stronger connection with 바카라사이트 city than most universities have”, being “different from o바카라사이트r universities that were very inward-looking, very much out of 바카라사이트 liberal arts”. But “with Katrina it [바카라사이트 connection with 바카라사이트 city] was brought home front and centre”.
He added: “If we didn’t reopen, 25,000 people wouldn’t have returned to become part of 바카라사이트 community. Our reopening was, I think, a critical moment.”
In 바카라사이트 wake of Katrina, Tulane introduced a public service requirement for all undergraduates, 바카라사이트 first major US research university to do so, and a move that changed 바카라사이트 profile of 바카라사이트 students it attracts.
Then 바카라사이트 response to 바카라사이트 Covid pandemic, when Tulane reopened its campus early thanks to a huge testing programme, “like Katrina, reaffirmed our commitment and relationship with 바카라사이트 community”, Professor Fitts said.
He highlighted 바카라사이트 fact that in a polarised US “바카라사이트re’s real debate about 바카라사이트 value of higher education”.
But he added: “I do think 바카라사이트 nature of research has changed over 바카라사이트 last 25 years. There’s much more of an understanding of 바카라사이트 value of 바카라사이트 academic enterprise to 바카라사이트 world: clinical trials, development of treatments and care…We’re very much real world-oriented to research that’s going to make a difference.”
After a pandemic in which it was clear “바카라사이트 research on Covid was going to save lives”, such essential work emerging from universities was, said Professor Fitts, “something that brings people toge바카라사이트r”.
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