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China posted by Gabby Nelson

INNOVATION, IN-MIGRATION, URBANIZATION: STUDENTS TRAVEL TO SHENZHEN, CHINA AND SURROUNDING CITIES WITH SUMMER FIELD STUDY TRIP

The Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) at Trinity College took 14 students on a field study course to the Pearl River Delta in June. This was the 11th year the Center has taken students to China and surrounding countries to study cities. The course themes were urbanization, innovation, and migration in the cities of Shenzhen, Dongguan, Huizhou, and Hong Kong.

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The Urban Planet posted

CUGS CELEBRATES 10 YEARS!

October 2017 marks the 10th anniversary of the Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) at Trinity College. Since its official launch in October 2007, CUGS has played a major role in developing and connecting urban and global initiatives and activities on campus, in Hartford, and around the world.

The Urban Planet posted

TRINITY COLLEGE UNVEILS NEW LIBERAL ARTS ACTION LAB

The Liberal Arts Action Lab is a new partnership between Trinity College and Capital Community College. Based in downtown Hartford at 10 Constitution Plaza, the Action Lab is a space where community members, nonprofits, government agencies, and social entrepreneurs can come with research questions or problems that they want solved to help their own work in the city. Using the resources of Trinity and Capital students, faculty fellows, and the Action Lab director, teams will develop and implement research projects to help offer solutions to these problems.

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The Urban Planet posted by Michael Lestz (History) and Joan Morrison (Environmental Science)

CUGS 2017 SUMMER PROGRAMMING

Since its founding, CUGS has been highly successful in developing an intellectual identity that encompasses academic study both on campus and abroad. Links to Hartford’s local communities were built into the package to create a smooth interface between global study efforts and our home base of Hartford.

posted by Xiangming Chen

LUCE INITIATIVE CELEBRATION

Four years into the Henry Luce Foundation’s Luce Initiative on Asian Studies and the Environment (LIASE) grant to Trinity College, we are celebrating the main activities and accomplishments supported by this grant administered by CUGS through an international symposium on campus on April 3-4, 2017. Entitled “Urban Sustainability in Asia: Many Dimensions, Multiple Disciplines, and Diverse Approaches,” this symposium highlights a number of Luce-funded curricular activities.

The Urban Planet posted by Xiangming Chen

A TRIO OF CONNECTED INITIATIVES

A key to the success of urban-global programming at Trinity over the last few years since the launch of the Center for Urban and Global Studies (CUGS) in 2007 is the consistent focus on linking and integrating local (Hartford-based) and global aspects of urban studies and engagement on one hand, bridging classroom and experiential learning across multiple field sites. It also involves building strong connections between faculty teaching and research and student learning and research that span the local-global nexus. To illustrate how we have. implemented this integrated strategy, we provide an account for a trio of initiatives at different stages of execution that have intersected and reinforced each other’s strengths with synergistic benefits for both students and faculty.