Title: The campus and the city, maximizing assets and reducing liabilities /
Authors: Carnegie Commission on Higher Education.
Date: 1972
Publisher: McGraw-Hill,
Physical description: ix, 205 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language: English
LC classification: L
Contents: Major themes -- The urban crisis -- Higher education and the city -- The urban university and the urban college -- Role as educator -- Access to higher education in metropolitan areas. Total higher education places ; Balance within metropolitan areas -- Access is not enough -- New directions for place and time. Learning pavilions -- Community colleges and commuter colleges -- Need for new types of urban institutions. Minnesota Metropolitan State College ; Universities without walls ; College for human services -- Urban studies -- Research on urban problems. Urban observatories -- Public service. Student services to the community ; Service by faculty members ; Institutional services -- Impacts on the life of the city. Physical or environmental impacts ; Urban renewal activities ; Alternative solutions to expansion problems ; Economic impacts ; Cultural impacts ; Political impacts -- Organization for urban affairs within the institution -- Toward an urban commitment -- Organization for postsecondary education in the city. Metropolitan higher education council ; Metropolitan educational opportunity counseling center -- Funding for higher education in the city.
Notes: Includes enrollment statistics.
Subject headings (LCSH): Education, Higher--Aims and objectives.; Education, Urban--United States.; Municipal universities and colleges--United States.