University Professors Are Not Idle When Outside Of The Classroom - Especially In The Coronavirus Era

Posted May 6, 2020

External Article: Forbes

Marilyn Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor in the School of Public Policy, contributed a section in "University Professors Are Not Idle When Outside Of The Classroom – Especially In The Coronavirus Era" on May 6, 2020 in Forbes.

In the article, written by Marshall Shepherd of the University of Georgia, a selection of prominent university professors offered their take on the role of higher education in the midst of a pandemic. Brown spoke to the importance of the innovation that the university setting can inspire.

Excerpt:

Dr. Marilyn A. Brown, Regents' and Brook Byers Professor of Sustainable Systems. School of Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology: Solving the crises we face as a nation - the Covid pandemic, global climate change, affordable housing, the opiod epidemic, and more - all require a strong science and education system. This is a time to strengthen our universities, not shrink them. We need to innovate our way out of these problems, drawing solutions from biology and chemistry, as well as administrative, economic, and policy sciences. Universities are the crucible of such solutions.

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