Course Readings (through 3/13)

Readings for 3/13, with links to PDF downloads
Note from Professor Hainline: Prof. Steven Brier will be visiting our class on March 13 to talk about the history of CUNY. The first reading he has suggested you do (chapters from Traub’s A City on the Hill. The others (Landa, Gunderson, Biondi) are my suggestions, but read the Traub first please. Everyone should develop questions for Dr. Brier, so there is no separate team assignment for next week. Email if you have questions.

  • Traub, City on a Hill (pdf)
  • Biondi, “Brooklyn College Belongs to Us” (pdf)
  • Gunderson, “The Struggle for CUNY: A History of the CUNY Student Movement 1969-1999” (pdf)
  • Landa, “The Birth of a Modern University” (pdf)

Readings for 3/6, with links to PDF downloads

  • Lagemann, Chapter 1 (pdf)
  • Marcus, Chapter 2 (pdf)
  • Thelin, Intro, Chapter 8 (pdf)
  • Christensen, Chapters 5, 7, 9, 11 (pdf)

Readings for 2/27, with links to PDF downloads

    Carnegie classification of institutions of higher education.

  • Carnegie data (pdf)
  • IHE Carnegie (pdf)
  • Rethink Carnegie (pdf)
    College and university mission statements, with examples from Macaulay, BC and CUNY.

  • Mission and Vision Statements (pdf)
  • Mission Analysis (pdf)
  • Macaulay Mission (pdf)
  • Brooklyn College Strategic Plan (pdf)
  • CUNY Master Plan (pdf)

Notes: These readings are to be completed before the first class session on Wed., 1/30. You need to be logged into The Chronicle through Brooklyn College (access the portal here) to access the third reading.

a. Committee for Economic Development (2005) Cracks in the Education Pipeline: A Business Leader’s Guide to Higher Education Reform, report by Committee on Higher Education Reform of the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, downloaded 1/18/13 from http://www.highereducation.org/reports/ced/ced.pdf

b. Immerwahr, J. and Johnson, J. (2010) Squeeze Play 2010: Continued Public Anxiety on Cost, Harsher Judgments on How Colleges are Run, report prepared by Public Agenda for The National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education, downloaded 1/18/13 from: http://www.highereducation.org/reports/squeeze_play_10/index.shtml

c. Levine, A. E. (2000) The future of colleges: 9 inevitable changes. The Chronicle of Higher Education, downloaded 9/7/2003 from: http://chronicle.com/article/The-Future-of-Colleges-9/10560/

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About Margaret Galvan

Margaret Galvan is pursuing a PhD in English and a film studies certificate at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She has taught at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and Borough of Manhattan Community College and serves as one of the coordinators of OpenCUNY, the student organized, open-source, social media for the Graduate Center community. Her research focuses on the representation of women's bodies in twentieth and twenty-first century graphic, filmic, and text narratives.