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The struggle for academic democracy : lessons from the 1938 "revolution" in New York's city colleges

Title
The struggle for academic democracy : lessons from the 1938 "revolution" in New York's city colleges / Abraham Edel.
Author
Edel, Abraham, 1908-2007.
Publication
Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 1990.

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Description
viii, 285 p.; 22 cm.
Subject
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art
  • Geschichte 1938
  • Universities and colleges > United States > Administration > Case studies
  • Universities and colleges > New York (State) > New York > Administration
  • University autonomy > United States > Case studies
  • University autonomy > New York (State) > New York
  • Universities and colleges > Administration
  • University autonomy
  • Höheres Bildungswesen
  • Demokratisierung
  • New York (State) > New York
  • United States
  • New York (N.Y.)
Genre/Form
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-278).
Contents
The temper of the Thirties -- New York and its city colleges -- Revolution in governance -- Progress, reaction, and counter-revolution -- New York and the national scene -- A half century later -- Looking back for lessons -- Governance: whose business? -- The nature of democratic governance -- Appendices. Joint program on faculty and administrative organization -- Union program for departmental democracy -- Arguments advanced during the campaign -- Summary of the revised (1938) bylaws of the Board of Higher Education on tenure and governance.
ISBN
  • 0877226911
  • 9780877226918
LCCN
89027741
OCLC
  • ocm20453863
  • 20453863
  • SCSB-1893635
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library