1st Edition
CUNY�s First Fifty Years Triumphs and Ordeals of a People�s University
Chapter 1 – Introduction
Chapter 2 – One Hundred and Fourteen Years in the Making (1847-1960)
Chapter 3 – CUNY Arrives (1961) and the Expansion Begins
Chapter 4 – The Fight for Open Admissions (1960s)
Chapter 5 – The 1970s – Open Admissions, Fiscal Collapse, and Tuition!
Chapter 6 – The Ups and Downs of the 1980s
Chapter 7 – The End of Open Admissions (1990s)
Chapter 8 - A CUNY Renaissance and New Colleges Established (2000s and Beyond)
Chapter 9 - Pathways and the Battle for the Curriculum
Chapter 10 – Mayor and Governor Feud Over CUNY
Biography
Anthony G. Picciano is a professor and executive officer of the Ph.D. Program in Urban Education at the City University of New York Graduate Center and Professor of Education Leadership at Hunter College.
Chet Jordan is a full-time instructor at Guttman Community College of the City University of New York.
"The CUNY story is a great story and the authors tell it well. They pull together the University's evolution and growth, track the benchmark decisions and the major crises, and explore its interactions with politics. Not too much arcane detail and generally enough background to satisfy readers who are not CUNY junkies. Familiar though the story is for me, I still came across things that were new to me. All in all, the authors accomplished much of what they set out to do: a character sketch, with illuminating vignettes of the major players and landmark events along the way."
– Christoph Kimmich, President of Brooklyn College (2000-2009) and Interim Chancellor of the City University of New York (1997-1999
