Robert D. Parmet

Town and Gown (eBook, ePUB)

The Fight for Social Justice, Urban Rebirth, and Higher Education

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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." Operating in rented quarters without a permanent campus and regarded as academically illegitimate owing to its location, the college was regarded as expendable in hard times. From 1971 to 1979 critics both inside and outside of the City University, such as Governor Nelson Rockefeller and Mayor Edward Koch, questioned the school's right to exist, especially during the New York City and State Fiscal Crisis of 1975 and 1976. Undaunted, the college and its diverse supporters rallied and won. An amazing groundswell of support from Southeast Queens, and intense political pressure, saved it. Though the fight was often bitter, York College and Jamaica would not be denied. The college moved onto its permanent campus as a new Jamaica Center emerged.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611474732
• Artikelnr.: 39486639

Autorenporträt

Robert D. Parmet is professor of history at York College, CUNY.

Inhaltsangabe

  Illustrations
                                                                     
Preface
                                                                             
Introduction
                                                                    
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                                                        
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