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A Measure of Hope
Last fall, in what has become an annual rite of passage in
the Johns Hopkins master of public policy program, 32
first-year students went out to test their mental mettle
on the streets of Baltimore. Working in teams of six or
seven, the students analyzed data and gathered
observations on five public housing developments
throughout the city being reconstructed as part of a
multibillion-dollar federal initiative known as HOPE
VI.
Under HOPE VI, Baltimore has received
more than $150 million in federal funds to replace
antiquated, substandard housing projects built in the
1950s, '60s and '70s with newer mixed-income
townhouse-style communities. The developments--Pleasant
View Gardens, The Townes at the Terraces, Heritage
Crossing, Broadway Overlook and Flag House Courts--are
scattered across downtown Baltimore, from the steps of the
Johns Hopkins medical campus to west of Martin Luther King
Jr. Boulevard.
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Undergrads drawn to Public
Health
Above James Goodyear's office door hangs a nondescript
charcoal-and-white sign that reads Public Health Studies.
It's a small sign. His is a small office, tucked away on
the first floor of an unnamed brick building located
across the street from the Homewood campus proper.
Although his space may be somewhat off the beaten path,
Goodyear says, students seem to have a knack for finding
it.
How? Well, they just follow "the
buzz."
Goodyear is the associate director of
Public Health Studies, an undergraduate program offered by
the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences in conjunction
with the Bloomberg School of Public Health. A sort of
academic orphan, the program is currently not affiliated
with any department. Public Health Studies' independent
status, however, has not stopped it from last year ranking
as the third most popular (out of 40) degree-granting
programs in the school, positioned just behind such
stalwarts as international studies and biology.
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The Gazette
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Baltimore, MD 21218
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