If ever there was a moment in recent history calling upon institutions, educators, and students to solve the world's grand challenges, it's now, following the culminating year of 2020's cataclysmic events, the onslaught of the pandemic, the beginning of the final reckoning with our nation's white supremacy, the attack on democracy, the literal and constant heating of our planet.
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The MIT and MSU Collaboration brings together the urban planning programs of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Morgan State University (MSU, or "Morgan"). Established just a few years apart, these two institutions share a commitment to expanding access to education for the purpose of addressing the world's most pressing needs.
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The Department of Urban Studies & Planning (DUSP) is a department within the School of Architecture + Planning at MIT.
MIT is a community eager to solve hard problems in service to the nation and the world. Teaching and research—with relevance to the practical world as a guiding principle—continue to be MIT's primary purpose. As part of its mission, MIT commits to generating, disseminating, and preserving knowledge, and to working with others to bring this knowledge to bear on the world’s great challenges. The DUSP program seeks new knowledge and practical impact, in service to humankind, and celebrates collaboration as the best path to fresh answers. |
The City & Regional Planning (CREP) program is part of Morgan State University's School of Architecture + Planning (SA+P).
Morgan is the largest Historically Black College and University (HBCU) in Maryland, and considers itself Maryland's Preeminent Public Urban Research University. As such, it aims to fulfill its mission to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment through intense community-level study and pioneering solutions. The SA+P programs introduce and promote the sense of interconnectedness between a built form, human behavior, forces of nature, political and economic dynamics characteristic of an urban context. |