Cuny's First Fifty Years: Triumphs and Ordeals of a People's University

ISBN-13: 9780367886332 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 132 str.

Anthony Picciano; Chet Jordan

Opis

Reflecting on its uniqueness and broader place in U.S. higher education, Picciano and Jordan examine in depth the development of the CUNY system and all of its constituent colleges, with emphasis on its rapid expansion in the 1960s, and the end of its free tuition in the 1970s, and open admissions policies in the 1990s. While much of CUNY’s hist

Spis treści

Chapter 1 – Introduction

Chapter 2 – One Hundred and Fourteen Years in the Making (1847-1960)

Chapter 3 – CUNY Arrives (1961) and the Expansion Begins

Chapter 4 – The Fight for Open Admissions (1960s)

Chapter 5 – The 1970s – Open Admissions, Fiscal Collapse, and Tuition!

Chapter 6 – The Ups and Downs of the 1980s

Chapter 7 – The End of Open Admissions (1990s)

Chapter 8 - A CUNY Renaissance and New Colleges Established (2000s and Beyond)

Chapter 9 - Pathways and the Battle for the Curriculum

Chapter 10 – Mayor and Governor Feud Over CUNY

O autorze

Anthony G. Picciano is a professor and executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Professor of Education Leadership at Hunter College.

Chet Jordan is a full-time instructor at Guttman Community College of the City University of New York.