Town and gown : the fight for social justice, urban rebirth, and higher education /
"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 mino...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Madison [N.J.] : Lanham, Md. :
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press ; Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group,
[2011]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| 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. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiii, 169 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781611474732 (electronic) 1611474736 (electronic) |