Creating a College That Works: Audrey Cohen and Metropolitan College of New York Roosevelt provides a ringside seat during the years of turbulence, hope, and innovation in the 1960s and ’70s. Focusing her attention on the major players in the development of MCNY, Grace G.
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| Title | : | Creating a College That Works: Audrey Cohen and Metropolitan College of New York |
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (990 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1438455887 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 364 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-03-01 |
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Editorial : About the AuthorGrace G. Roosevelt is Associate Professor of Education at Metropolitan College of New York and the author of Reading Rousseau in the Nuclear Age.
Examines the life of education activist Audrey Cohen and her founding of Metropolitan College of New York. In 1964 educational activist Audrey Cohen and her colleagues developed a unique curricular structure that enables urban college students to integrate their academic studies with meaningful work in community settings. Creating a College That Works chronicles Cohen’s efforts to create an innovative educational model that began with the Women’s Talent Corps, evolved into the College for Human Services, and finally became, in 2002, what is now Metropolitan College of New York (MCNY), a fully accredited institution of higher education that offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Focusing her attention on the major players in the development of MCNY, Grace G. Roosevelt provides a ringside seat during the years of turbulence, hope, and innovation in the 1960s and ’70s. She captures the life of a visionary educational leader while situating Cohe
If you are not fond of landscapes this is not for you, but if you enjoy Japanese printmaking, this book is an absolute must. Compromises were made and everything moved on. The text and line drawings are clear. Oller's reading materials. this book is great guide for beginners like myself who are looking to get into photography. Both his rural and urban landscapes are imbued with these qualities, and places both famous and anonymous seem to shimmer with moods and resonances of an archetypal Japan you always wanted to visit but found only fleetingly when you actually went there--and in this too there is a subdued hint of something more universal and eternal still. Roosevelt shows the "good" characteristics of her main character, Audrey Cohen, who founded the college, as well as the not-so-good aspects of the same person. De Beauvoir demonstrates this when describing her interactions with Jean-Paul Sartre, "we used to talk about all kinds of things, but especially about a subject which int
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