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ForAmerica’s colleges, January is a month of reckoning. Most applications for the next academic year beginning in the autumn have to be made by the end ofDecember, so a university’s popularity is put to an objective standard, how many people want to attenD、One of the more unlikely offices to have been flooded with mail is that of theCity University of New YorkCUNY), a public college that lacks, among other things, a famous sports team, bucolic campuses and raucous parties (it doesn’t even have dorms), and, until recently, academic credibility.
A、primary draw atCUNY is a programme for particularly clever students, launched in 2001. Some 1,100 of the 60,000 students atCUNY’s five top schools receive a rare thing in the costly world ofAmerican colleges, free education. Those accepted byCUNY’s honours programme pay no tuition fees; instead they receive a stipend of $ 7,500 (to help with general expenses) and a laptop computer.Applications for early admissions into next year’s programme are up 70%.
Admission has nothing to do with being an athlete, or a child of an alumnus, or having an influential sponsor, or being a member of a particularly aggrieved ethnic group—criteria that are increasingly important atAmerica’s elite colleges. Most of the students who apply to the honours programme come from relatively poor families, many of them immigrant ones.All thatCUNY demands is that these students be diligent and clever.
Last year, the average standardized test score of this group was in the top 7% in the country.Among the rest ofCUNY’s students averages are lower, but they are now just breaking into the top third (compared with the bottom third in 1997).CUNY does not appear alongside Harvard and Stanford on lists ofAmerica’s top colleges, but its recent transformation offers a neat parable of meritocracy revisiteD、
Until the 1960s, a good case could be made that the best deal inAmerican tertiary education was to be found not inCambridge or PaloAlto, but in Harlem, at a small public school calledCityCollege, the core ofCUNY.America’s first free municipal university, founded in 1847, offered its services to everyone bright enough to meet its gruelling standards.
City’s golden era came in the last century, whenAmerica’s best known colleges restricted the number of Jewish students they would admit at exactly the time when New York was teeming with the bright children of poor Jewish immigrants. In 1933—1954City produced nine future Nobel laureates.
But in the second half of the last century,CUNY once lost its glamour.
What went wrong Put simply,City dropped its standards. It was partly to do with demography, partly to do with earnest muddleheadedness. In the 1960s, universities across the country faced intense pressure to admit more minority students.AlthoughCity was open to all races, only a small number of black and Hispanic students passed the strict. That, critics decided, could not be squared withCity’s mission to "serve all the citizens of New York".At first the standards were tweaked, but this was not enough, and in 1969 massive student protests shut downCity’s campus for two weeks. Faced with upheaval,City scrapped its admissions standards altogether.By 1970, almost any student who graduated from New York’s high schools could attenD、
The quality of education collapseD、At first, with no barrier to entry, enrolment climbed, but in 1976 the city of New York, which was then in effect bankrupt, forcedCUNY to impose tuition fees.An era of free education was over, and a university which had once served such a distinct purpose joined the muddle ofAmerica’s lower-end education.
By 1997, seven out of ten first-year students in theCUNY system were failing at least one remedial test in reading, writing or maths (meaning that they had not learnt it to high- school standard).A、report commissi
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A、primary draw atCUNY is a programme for particularly clever students, launched in 2001. Some 1,100 of the 60,000 students atCUNY’s five top schools receive a rare thing in the costly world ofAmerican colleges, free education. Those accepted byCUNY’s honours programme pay no tuition fees; instead they receive a stipend of $ 7,500 (to help with general expenses) and a laptop computer.Applications for early admissions into next year’s programme are up 70%.
Admission has nothing to do with being an athlete, or a child of an alumnus, or having an influential sponsor, or being a member of a particularly aggrieved ethnic group—criteria that are increasingly important atAmerica’s elite colleges. Most of the students who apply to the honours programme come from relatively poor families, many of them immigrant ones.All thatCUNY demands is that these students be diligent and clever.
Last year, the average standardized test score of this group was in the top 7% in the country.Among the rest ofCUNY’s students averages are lower, but they are now just breaking into the top third (compared with the bottom third in 1997).CUNY does not appear alongside Harvard and Stanford on lists ofAmerica’s top colleges, but its recent transformation offers a neat parable of meritocracy revisiteD、
Until the 1960s, a good case could be made that the best deal inAmerican tertiary education was to be found not inCambridge or PaloAlto, but in Harlem, at a small public school calledCityCollege, the core ofCUNY.America’s first free municipal university, founded in 1847, offered its services to everyone bright enough to meet its gruelling standards.
City’s golden era came in the last century, whenAmerica’s best known colleges restricted the number of Jewish students they would admit at exactly the time when New York was teeming with the bright children of poor Jewish immigrants. In 1933—1954City produced nine future Nobel laureates.
But in the second half of the last century,CUNY once lost its glamour.
What went wrong Put simply,City dropped its standards. It was partly to do with demography, partly to do with earnest muddleheadedness. In the 1960s, universities across the country faced intense pressure to admit more minority students.AlthoughCity was open to all races, only a small number of black and Hispanic students passed the strict. That, critics decided, could not be squared withCity’s mission to "serve all the citizens of New York".At first the standards were tweaked, but this was not enough, and in 1969 massive student protests shut downCity’s campus for two weeks. Faced with upheaval,City scrapped its admissions standards altogether.By 1970, almost any student who graduated from New York’s high schools could attenD、
The quality of education collapseD、At first, with no barrier to entry, enrolment climbed, but in 1976 the city of New York, which was then in effect bankrupt, forcedCUNY to impose tuition fees.An era of free education was over, and a university which had once served such a distinct purpose joined the muddle ofAmerica’s lower-end education.
By 1997, seven out of ten first-year students in theCUNY system were failing at least one remedial test in reading, writing or maths (meaning that they had not learnt it to high- school standard).A、report commissi
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