From the Free Academy to Cuny
Subtitle: Illustrating Public Higher Education in NYC, 1847-1997
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: January 1, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 146
ISBN-13: 9780823220199
Subjects: Higher & further education; Local history; Public Higher Education; Education; Education / Teaching; Higher; History; History / United States / State & Local; City University of New York; Education, Higher; New York; New York (State)
Description: "From the Free Academy to CUNY provides the first generally accessible narrative of the development of the City University of New York from its inception in 1847 as the Free Academy to its present status as the largest urban university in the country. Some 120 annotated illustrations dramatize the 150 years in which this institution has been facing the challenge of educating "the children of the whole people.""--BOOK JACKET.