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UMass Boston at 50: A Fiftieth Anniversary History of the University of Massachusetts Boston
Michael Feldberg
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Hardcover. Num Pages: 220 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBT; JNM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1678.
The social upheaval of the 1960s ushered in lasting change across the country, prompted, in part, by major civil rights and anti-poverty legislation, a record number of students seeking college degrees, and the expansion of land-grant public universities into urban centers. Guided by an idealism and ambition characteristic of the time, the University of Massachusetts Boston held its first classes in 1965. In a city that prided itself on being the birthplace of American public education but remained the exclusive preserve of private universities, UMass Boston's founders set their sights on creating “a great public urban university” that would “stand ... Read more
The social upheaval of the 1960s ushered in lasting change across the country, prompted, in part, by major civil rights and anti-poverty legislation, a record number of students seeking college degrees, and the expansion of land-grant public universities into urban centers. Guided by an idealism and ambition characteristic of the time, the University of Massachusetts Boston held its first classes in 1965. In a city that prided itself on being the birthplace of American public education but remained the exclusive preserve of private universities, UMass Boston's founders set their sights on creating “a great public urban university” that would “stand ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
220
Place of Publication
Massachusetts, United States
ISBN
9781625341693
SKU
V9781625341693
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About Michael Feldberg
Michael Feldberg is executive director and senior scholar at the George Washington Institute for Religious Freedom, USA and research faculty associate at the Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, USA. He has published extensively in the fields of American history and criminal justice.
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