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Author Parmet, Robert D., 1938-

Title Town and gown : the fight for social justice, urban rebirth, and higher education / Robert D. Parmet
Published Madison, N.J. : Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, c2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 169 p.)
Contents Chapter 1. Boom time -- Chapter 2. The birth of York College -- Chapter 3. Urban or suburban? -- Chapter 4. The urban option -- Chapter 5. Jamaica hello -- Chapter 6. Married to the community -- Chapter 7. Senior status -- Chapter 8. Kibbee, Carey, and CUNY -- Chapter 9. "Save our school" -- Chapter 10. Home to stay
Summary "Town and Gown is the story of the birth in the 1960s and survival through the 1970s of an inner city college, York College of the City University of New York, in Jamaica, Queens. Created as a liberal arts college to provide increased access to minority students, it was placed in a mainly minority neighborhood, where it received exceptionally strong support from a middle class African American community seeking access to quality higher education for its children and a business community striving to overcome the effects of 'white flight' "--Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
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Subject York College (New York, N.Y.) -- History
York College (New York, N.Y.)
Minorities -- Education (Higher) -- New York (State) -- New York
Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York
EDUCATION -- Higher.
Minorities -- Education (Higher)
Social conditions
Urban renewal
Jamaica (New York, N.Y.) -- Social conditions
New York (State) -- New York
New York (State) -- New York -- Jamaica
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021680521
ISBN 9781611474732
1611474736