The Urban University in America

Language: English

Published by Praeger, 1978

0313200319 / 9780313200311

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Maurice Berube, a New York educational consultant, surveys the urban universities' public policies - community relations, minority admissions, urban and black studies programs - while promoting the schools' possible larger social role. Regrettably, this well-written work has not been well thought out. Nowhere does Berube define the 'urban America' he says constitutes the home for a majority of Americans; in actuality, only 15.6% of the population lives in cities of more than 500,000 persons, those to which he refers most often. The stress, in fact, is on a few large cities' circumstances, with New York City (CUNY and Columbia) the overwhelming favorite. A second, less severe problem is the work's historical superficiality; apart from a pedestrian recounting of the impact of the 1862 Land Grant College Act, Berube writes of the 1960s and 1970s. He fails to note, for example, that earlier in this century such reform-minded scholars as Robert Parks and Charles Merriam strove unavailingly to convert the University of Chicago into the incubator for advances in social work that Berube would have every urban school be. No significant distinction is drawn, moreover, between privately- and publicly-supported institutions, or between the four-year school and the community college. On its own limited terms, however, the book clearly summarizes current local (chiefly New York) debates over open admission, affirmative action, and the like. (Kirkus Reviews).

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Title
The Urban University in America
Author
Maurice R. Berube
Publisher
Praeger
Publication year
1978
Condition
Neu
Binding
Buch
Language
English
ISBN 10
0313200319
ISBN 13
9780313200311
Item weight
343 grams
Dimensions
222x145x13 mm

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