| Description |
1 online resource (xxii, 365 pages) : illustrations, maps |
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Introduction : Taking stock of New York's state university after six decades: I.A guided tour through SUNY's first six decades -- II. Twenty-seven ways to understand SUNY -- 1. The Empire State creates a university: -- Introduction / Sanford H. Levine -- I. Shared goals, different politics, and differing outcomes: the Truman commission and the Dewey commission / Philo Hutcheson -- II. Forging SUNY in New York's political cauldron / Tod Ottman -- III. The temporary commission surveys bias in admissions / Harold S. Wechsler -- 2. The building blocks of SUNY: -- Introduction / Douglas R. Skopp -- I. SUNY Oswego : from recovery and refugees to re-invention and revival / Tim Nekritz -- II. Rescuing the State Teachers College from history's scrapheap / Kenneth P. O'Brien & W. Bruce Leslie -- III. "A touch of New England in western New York" : the transformation of SUNY Geneseo / Wayne Mahood -- IV. From schools of agriculture to colleges of technology : a century of evolution / Joseph Petrick -- 3. Varied missions in America's largest "comprehensive university": -- Introduction / Christopher C. Dahl -- I. The College of Environmental Science and Forestry and SUNY : a unique relationship/ Hugh O. Canham -- II. Suny Maritime College : a history / Maryellen Keefe -- III. Why a university press should be and must be relevant / Gary Dunham |
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4. Community colleges : emergence of an educational giant: -- Introduction / Dennis Golladay -- I.A retrospective view of the Westchester Community College experience / Marjorie Glusker -- II. The pioneers speak: voices from the early years of the SUNY community colleges / Benjamin J. Weaver -- 5. SUNY strides onto the national research stage: -- Introduction / John W. Kalas -- I. Presidential leadership, change, and community : SUNY Buffalo from 1966 to 1981 / Patricia A. Maloney -- II. Documenting research at SUNY university centers : a comparative approach / Nancy Diamond -- III. Better late than never : intentions, timing, and results in creating SUNY research universities / Roger L. Geiger -- 6. The best laid plans: -- Introduction / John Aubrey Douglass -- I. James Bryant Conant and the limits of educational planning in California and New York / Wayne J. Urban -- II. Three historical moments : contested visions of the State University of New York / Henry Steck -- III. An assessment of the recommendations of the NYS Commission on Higher Education / John B. Clarke -- 7. "Diversity"-demography, culture, and education for a changing New York: -- Introduction / Pedro N. Cabán -- I. Changing demographics and representational dilemmas : Latinos at SUNY and CUNY meeting the diversity challenge / José E. Cruz -- II. Creating educational equity : a brief look at the history and development of the SUNY EOCs and EOP / Carlos N. Medina & Jeffrey Scott -- 8. SUNY in and of the world: -- Introduction / James Ketterer -- I. SUNY's strategic role in international higher education / Karla Back -- II. SUNY from an English perspective / John Halsey -- 9. The view from the SUNY tower : two chancellors look back: -- I. Historical vignettes of SUNY: a personal sampling / Clifton R. Wharton Jr. -- II. The State University of New York: memories and perspectives / D. Bruce Johnstone -- 10. Telling SUNY's tale: historians look back and forward: -- Introduction / Chris Ward -- I. The state of archives on SUNY campuses: the good, the bad, and the unaccounted / Geoffrey Williams -- II. Pride and identity : the college histories of the SUNY campuses / Joel T. Rosenthal -- III. The strange career of SUNY's history / W. Bruce Leslie -- Conclusion: Some concluding thoughts about SUNY and the promise of public higher education in New York |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
State University of New York -- History
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| SUBJECT |
State University of New York fast |
| Subject |
Higher education and state -- New York (State) -- History
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EDUCATION -- Higher.
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Higher education and state
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New York (State)
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Leslie, William Bruce, editor
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Clark, John B., editor
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O'Brien, Kenneth Paul, editor
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| LC no. |
2009046609 |
| ISBN |
9781441648778 |
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1441648771 |
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9781438433042 |
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1438433042 |
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