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To Help Them Achieve: The Academic Talent Search Project 1966-68, Part II

In the Fall of 1964, (armed with a Rockefeller Foundation grant) Brooklyn College’s School of General Studies launched a 42 student pilot program using Bowker’s model, which it called the “Academic Talent Search Project” or “ATSP.” The [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Activism, Adjunct or Contingent Labor, Admissions, Diversity, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation
Tags: Brooklyn College, City College of New York, Civil Rights Movement, Desegregation, Equal Opportunity Programs, Racial Justice, SEEK, Social Justice, Tutoring, Writing pedagogy
"Will Everyman Destroy the University?"

In this article, CUNY’s new Vice Chancellor Timothy Healy writes of SEEK as both a practical and theoretical model for open admissions. He cites the success of the program--intended to improve higher education access for the underserved--as proof [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Activism, Adjunct or Contingent Labor, Admissions, Diversity, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation
Tags: Allen B. Ballard, City College of New York, Civil Rights Movement, Desegregation, Equal Opportunity Programs, Leslie Berger, Racial Justice, SEEK, Social Justice, Timothy Healy, Tutoring, Writing pedagogy
Press Release – A New Experimental College

In this press release, The City University of New York's Office of University Relations announces the creation of a new, experimental, two-year college to be "established on a community-oriented basis in central Brooklyn." The press release [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, Board of Trustees, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, State and/or City budget
Tags: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Chancellor Albert Bowker, Community College Number Seven, Experimental Education, Medgar Evers College, Porter R. Chandler, The City University of New York Office of University Relations
Proposal to Plan and Implement Departmental Programs for Community College No. 7

This document describes previous authorizations regarding the creation of Community College No. 7 (Medgar Evers College) and three additional community colleges. It goes on to detail one of the more unique features of the college: a community [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, Community Colleges, Diversity, NYC Public Schools, Open Admissions, Relationships with Communities, Remediation
Tags: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Community College Number Seven, Core Semester, Experimental Education, Medgar Evers College, Office of the Dean of Community College Affairs

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