Hobart and William Smith Colleges

12 April 2018 HWS Srole Urban Studies Lecture to be Held

Geneva, NYThe 12th annual Leo Srole Urban Studies Lecture, titled Solving Homelessness: Work WorksNew York Citys Doe Program, will be presented by Harriet MacDonald, director of New York Citys Doe Fund, and three participants in the Doe Funds Ready, Willing, and Able program, at 8 p.m. on Tuesday, February 13, in Albright Auditorium on the Hobart and William Smith campus.

This years Srole Lecture is the result of visits by professors Pat McGuire and Jim Spates and the students of their Two Cities: NY and Toronto course to New York City, where they spent a day cleaning the streets of the city with people enrolled in the Ready, Willing, and Able program. The program provides a structured environment in which homeless men and women restore their self-esteem and regain power over their lives by becoming self-sufficient and productive members of society.

The Srole Lecture is the flagship event of the Urban Studies Program, and named after HWS Professor Leo Srole, who taught in the 1940s and wrote the American city studies classic The Mental Health of the Metropolis. Among previous lecturers are William H. Whyte, author of The Organization Man and City; Reverend Martha Overall of St. Anns Parish, South Bronx, N.Y. (featured in Jonathan Kozols book Amazing Grace); Dr. Mitchell Kosny, chair of the Urban Planning Dept at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto, and, last year, Edward Burroughs, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of the recent history of New York, Gotham.

The event is free and open to the entire campus and Geneva community.

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