Using Data To Investigate University Land Trusts

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Grantee Maria Parazo Rose, a staff data journalist at environmental investigations outlet Grist, will lead data journalism workshop classes, meet informally with students, and present her work on the Pulitzer Center-supported project Misplaced Trust in her keynote address.

Misplaced Trust investigates how stolen wealth continues to enrich land-grant universities, often through leasing formerly tribal lands for extractive activities like oil drilling and mining. The project compiled publicly available data into maps and figures. It also attends to the human and environmental costs of these ill-gotten gains, which rarely—if ever—appear in university endowment reports.