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Wiewel, Wim; Detweiler-Bedell, Jerusha – Metropolitan Universities, 2019
There was a time when universities located in cities set themselves apart from urban life, even, in some cases, building walls that isolated their campuses. As the Cold War and Space Race accelerated the demand for academic expertise, government funding for basic and applied research became a mainstay of higher education. With the end of the Cold…
Descriptors: Liberal Arts, Colleges, Public Colleges, Educational History