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...year ago, the mammoth (207,000 enrollment) City University of New York began its innovative Open Admissions program, which guaranteed classroom space to any city applicant with a high school diploma and imposed a three-semester moratorium on academic dismissals (TIME, Oct. 19, 1970). The purpose of the program was to provide an educational second chance for graduates of the city's mediocre high schools who otherwise would not qualify for college. To critics among faculty, alumni and outside educators, the experiment seemed like a formula for disaster. Many agreed with Vice President Spiro Agnew, who warned that...
Both Bulkos take correspondence courses during their weeks off-Johannes to finish his education in engineering and Anne to get her high school diploma so that she can go to college. Once they have their degrees, they hope to move on to better and probably separate jobs that they could share with a similarly trained couple; the two husbands could work at one engineering job while the wives worked in another field. If they find the proper couple, Johannes believes, "I do not think we will mind going on indefinitely sharing our time equally between home and work...
...More blacks than ever finished college during the '60s, but the high school dropout rate for black males in 1970 was 15.9% v. 6.7% for whites. A white with an eighth-grade education earned more in 1969 ($7,018) than a black with a high school diploma ($6,192). Unemployment for nonwhites in 1970 was 8.2% compared with 4.5% for whites, although for the first time since the early 1950s the black rate was less than double the white rate...
...down a borrower after he has graduated and perhaps moved away. Most important, unlike the majority of consumer loans, student loans are not secured by collateral. Asks one frustrated loan administrator in Illinois: "If the kid doesn't pay up, what are we going to do, repossess his diploma...
...soon as he arrived, early last year, he went to the police. But no fugitive warrant had been served for him, and he was not held. Stiggers quickly started putting himself together, earned a diploma in auto repair at a community college, and worked as a busboy, dishwasher, mechanic and carpenter. Then, almost a year later, the Arkansas fugitive warrant arrived and he was arrested...