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CCNY--and Me describes the conflict between equal opportunity and academic excellence in American higher education. Once known as a -proletarian Harvard, - the City College of New York admitted the children of immigrants solely on the basis of achievement until a policy called Open Admissions was initiated in 1970, which offered a second chance to the disadvantaged of Harlem and other deprived neighborhoods.

Emerging from the cultural revolution of the 1960s, Open Admissions tested the very meaning of public education in our democracy. As chairman of the English department, dean of...

CCNY--and Me describes the conflict between equal opportunity and academic excellence in American higher education. Once known as a -proletarian Harvard, - the City College of New York admitted the children of immigrants solely on the basis of achievement until a policy called Open Admissions was initiated in 1970, which offered a second chance to the disadvantaged of Harlem and other deprived neighborhoods.

Emerging from the cultural revolution of the 1960s, Open Admissions tested the very meaning of public education in our democracy. As chairman of the English department, dean of...

Underscoring professional and educational issues pertinent to higher learning at universities across the country, Theodore L. Gross's memoir of his years in academia chronicles his successful fourteen-year presidency at Chicago's Roosevelt University, a period of leadership that resulted in an upsurge of fund-raising, sharp increases in enrollment and endowment, and the transformation of an urban campus into a metropolitan university.

Beginning with a description of his childhood and adolescent education and experiences, Gross recalls his years as a faculty member and academic...

Ninety-one selections from major Negro writings of the 19th and 20th centuries prefaced by an introduction to each author.