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no PhD Alum Eddie Summers recently spoke with the Wall Street Journal about a recent report citing that Downtown Brooklyn’s higher-education institutions drew some 60,000 students and generated $2.8 billion in economic activity in 2013. “It occurred to me we needed to start to sell the wealth of the higher-education sector here in Brooklyn,” said Summers, who is the Executive Director of the Brooklyn Education Innovation Network (a part of the Downtown Brooklyn Partnership that oversaw the study.) Read more on this here.
