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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is the university doing to make the campus or surrounding areas "safer?" There were parts of DC that you didn't want to visit in the 1980s but now are "better."  [/quote]

The university is not responsible for the surrounding areas, that would be the city and state domain.  The university works to keep campus safe and offers options for commuting about the city safely.  After that, it's just a normal urban area with pluses and minuses.  Your kid either has enough common sense, street smarts and grit to make it, develops these skills, or they go home/don't apply.  Of course, the university will work and engage the city/state on revitalization efforts and changes.

My kid visited Temple and liked it way better than Drexel because Template actually has a campus.  Of course its not the same as the fully closed gates of UPenn.[/quote]

Obviously it is very different as a public vs. a private but a school can be responsible for its surrounding areas. Penn has made a lot of efforts to gentrify the area around its campus to make it safer and more appealing. I'm sure some find this gentrification racist and offensive or whatever else, but I think it was smart. When the school's neighborhood is keeping away many qualified, otherwise interested candidates, you try to figure something out. And you can try to do it in a win-win way that also helps those already living in the neighborhood, rather than just displacing all of them.

I have a work friend who went to Temple as a commuter about 30 years ago - I think first in their family to go to college. I think they worked their way through school. They went on to get a grad degree from a very good private university and have gone on to have a successful white collar career (probably making $250k a year) - definitely well above where they came from.[/quote]

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