Johns Hopkins University, East Baltimore, East Baltimore Community School

BALTIMORE, MD - DECEMBER 18 Timothy Veal, 30, left, Crew Chief at East Baltimore Development, Inc., and Perry Santos, Maintenance Tech, board up one of the many abandoned buildings in East Baltimore. Johns Hopkins University has taken over a public school in a distressed area of East Baltimore. The East Baltimore Community School is a starting point for a huge redevelopment project in that neighborhood, which the university is undertaking in order to turn around the area and protect its medical campus. It's a challenge many major urban universities face. They are not only education centers; they are also developers and landlords next to some of the most downtrodden areas in the country. (Photo by Sarah L. Voisin/The Washington Post via Getty Images)