David Dyssegaard Kallick, Director, Immigration Research Initiative, Fiscal Policy Institute, delivers the opening plenary at the 2016 CUMU Annual Conference in Washington D.C.

In the mid-twentieth century, the white middle class seemed to abandon many American cities, leaving behind a legacy of major institutions and infrastructure with a tax base that had a hard time supporting it. Today, some cities are rebounding with population growth driven in significant part by immigrants—most dramatically in places such as Denver, Boston, and Washington D.C., but also cities like Philadelphia, Minneapolis, Kansas City, and Memphis. Universities and colleges have been at the center of these changes, both as institutions that faced fiscal pressures and as agents of change in supporting a multicultural revitalization of central cities. What are the immigration and population trends fueling these changes? What other cities have the potential to see this kind of rebound?

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