Word: urbanize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lynn said yesterday that he had had a "utopian impulse" and decided to act on it. "This school could be an instrument of reconciliation, a model interracial, urban university. It gives you a chance to believe that your presence makes a difference. His decision parallels a recent move by John U. Monro '38, former dean of the College, who is now director of freshmen studies at Miles College in Birmingham...
F.C.C. will place great emphasis on urban affairs and on adult extension courses. The university hopes to initiate a number of programs in the coming years--first an active exchange program
Along with cities like Houston, Richmond and Birmingham, Atlanta epitomizes the New South. An industrial, modern, rapidly changing urban complex, Atlanta seems at once foreign to, but trapped within the rural Old South. Not as much a pearl of the Renaissance languishing in a medieval sea as some of its boosters like to imagine, Atlanta is more a cacophony of modernity occasionally pierced by the strident monotone of its feudal past. McGill calls his city "a fly caught in amber...
F.C.C. will place great emphasis on urban affairs and on adult extension courses. The university hopes to initiate a number of programs in the coming years--first an active exchange program and eventually a Ph.D. program...
Besides the change in admissions policy, the Faculty voted a moratorium on classes as a first step in reforming its urban-related curricula. Curriculum reform is important: the Ed School has a responsibility to make sure it provides teachers with a good grasp of ghetto realities. But the Ed School could produce more as well as better teachers for ghetto classrooms by recruiting white students interested in urban teaching...