Town and Gown

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

Robert D. Parmet (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2011
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (Verlag)
978-1-61147-472-5 (ISBN)

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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.

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

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
Bibliography

Erscheint lt. Verlag	23.1.2012
Verlagsort	Cranbury
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 241 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Erwachsenenbildung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-61147-472-8 / 1611474728
ISBN-13	978-1-61147-472-5 / 9781611474725
Zustand	Neuware