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Author Picciano, Anthony G

Title CUNY's First Fifty Years : Triumphs and Ordeals of a People's University / Anthony G. Picciano and Chet Jordan
Published Milton : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (146 pages)
Contents Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 One Hundred and Fourteen Years in the Making (1847-1960); 3 CUNY Arrives (1961) and the Expansion Begins; 4 The Fight for Open Admissions (1960s); 5 The 1970s-Open Admissions, Fiscal Collapse, and Tuition; 6 The Ups and Downs of the 1980s; 7 The End of Open Admissions (1990s); 8 A CUNY Renaissance and New Colleges Established (2000s and Beyond); 9 Pathways and the Battle for the Curriculum; 10 Mayor and Governor Feud Over CUNY (2010-2016); Afterword; Appendix; Index; About the Authors
Summary "Providing a comprehensive history of the City University of New York, this book chronicles the evolution of the country's largest urban university from its inception in 1961 through the tumultuous events and policies that have shaped it character and community over the past fifty years. On April 11, 1961, New York State Governor Nelson Rockefeller signed the law creating the City University of New York (CUNY). This legislation consolidated the operations of seven municipal colleges--four senior colleges (Brooklyn College, City College, Hunter College and Queens College) and three community colleges (Bronx Community College, Queensborough Community College, and Staten Island Community College)--under a common Board of Higher Education. Enrolling at the time approximately 91,000 students, CUNY would evolve over the next fifty years into the largest urban university in the country, serving more than 500,000 students. 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 history is marked by twists and turns unique to its locale, many of the issues and experiences at CUNY over the past fifty years shed light on the larger nationwide developments in higher education."--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject City University of New York -- History
SUBJECT City University of New York fast
Subject Education, Higher -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
EDUCATION -- Administration -- Higher.
EDUCATION -- History.
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Education, Higher
New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
Author Jordan, Chet
ISBN 9781351982146
1351982141