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 Ha...
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 Ha...
