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任务

The 城市与全球研究中心 is a research and teaching center that plays a critical role in advancing Trinity’s urban and global education on campus, 在哈特福德, 在世界各地. 该中心充当驱动程序, 主持人, 召集人, and hub for faculty and student research and collaborative curricular and outreach initiatives that enhance student learning and strengthen urban connections while broadening and elevating Trinity’s global presence and academic reputation.

愿景和目标

博彩平台网址大全重视其城市位置. We also recognize and cherish the importance of our global connections through study-away programs, 研究交流和联系, 以及其他各种国际关系. CUGS aims to enhance Trinity’s distinct position and reputation as a leading urban liberal arts college with a wide global reach. 博彩平台网址大全的目标是成为 “preeminent liberal arts college in an urban setting”, 就像它一样”prepares students to be bold, independent thinkers who lead transformative lives. CUGS is a central conduit through which students engage with, connect to and learn to transform the urban world of the 21^st 世纪, beginning from 哈特福德 and expanding to examine national and global urbanism and urbanization patterns and processes across every inhabited continent. This vision guides our main goals for CUGS in its continued development:

1. CUGS aims to be the hub for student learning about urban and global issues at Trinity, as the home of the Urban Studies Program with its major and minor, 中国城市未成年人, and the Master’s Program and Graduate Certificate in Urban Planning. CUGS runs a major annual summer field course on urban China and Southeast Asia, which has focused on and traveled through large river cities and is currently based in the dynamic megacities of Shanghai and Shenzhen and their surrounding regions in China, and a January field course every other year in Zanzibar, 坦桑尼亚. CUGS also supervises numerous student research projects, 由凯尔特城市研究基金资助, 戴维斯和平基金项目, the Thomas Endowment for Urban China Research and Teaching, 田中亚洲城市研究基金, and research assistantships from the Center itself. Student researchers with CUGS regularly present their findings in the Center’s Global Vantage Point seminar series.
2. CUGS aims to be the hub for faculty development related to both teaching and research on urban and global issues at Trinity, 通过固定的和不同的项目. CUGS hosts the Kelter Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Urban Studies, the Rescue Scholar program through the Institute of International Education Scholar Rescue Fund and the Scott M. 约翰逊捐赠基金, and visiting professors through the Thomas Endowment for Urban China Research and Teaching and Trinity’s partnership with Fudan University in Shanghai. CUGS has also hosted visiting scholars through grants from the Urban Studies Foundation and the Henry Luce Foundation. CUGS has developed and instituted numerous research grants, co-curricular initiatives and research workshops – which have in turn led to further grants as well as published books and research articles. 值得注意的是，CUGS生产 Confronting Urban Legacy: Rediscovering 哈特福德 and New England’s Forgotten Cities (由陈向明和尼克·培根编辑, 台北, MD:莱克星顿书店, 2013), with many Trinity faculty and student chapter authors. CUGS regularly invites new and recent Trinity faculty to present 研究发现 in the Global Vantage Point seminar series and other workshops and symposia, alongside developing new urban courses and participating in both the Summer and January field courses.
3. CUGS aims to be a central player in Trinity’s outreach to the 哈特福德 region particularly in relation to global and urban issues, through its partnerships with and/or financial support to the Connecticut World Affairs Council, 哈特福德公共捐赠基金会, 大哈特福德领导力, 南区机构邻里联盟, 以及新流亡大学联盟, 在其他关系中. CUGS hosts numerous events and conferences that bring together students and faculty from the region and the world to discuss timely urban and global issues.

历史

Officially inaugurated in October 2007 through a major grant from the Andrew W. 梅隆基金会, the center has also received support from donors to the 博彩平台网址大全 Mellon Challenge for Urban and Global Studies and generous alumni and parent giving. 自1823年成立以来, Trinity offered an excellent classical liberal arts education to generations of students in its historic classroom buildings, but with relatively little engagement with the outside world until the last few decades. As the world beyond Trinity rapidly becomes more urbanized and globalized, the College’s concept of a traditional liberal arts education has been challenged to encompass a more urban-global view. 来实现博彩平台网址大全的愿景, 学院成立了CUGS, augmenting its tradition of liberal arts excellence with an integrated urban-global initiative. CUGS works to create an educational environment that extends classroom learning into 哈特福德, 到康涅狄格州的城市和美国, 还有世界各地的城市, 将学术知识, 研究发现, 并将实践经验带回课堂. 自2007年成立以来, CUGS has evolved and adapted with administrative changes into the focused research-and-teaching unit outlined above.