Cruel Blow To Open Enrollment From: The New York Jewish Week | Date: June 10, 1998| Author: | Copyright The Jewish Week Jun 10, 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

Cruel Blow To Open Enrollment

MARVIN SCHICK

Open enrollment at the City University was a sincere effort to expand higher educational opportunity for students, mainly minority group members, who otherwise might not have gone to college. As a consequence, their potential would not be fully realized and they would be far less likely to enter adulthood as contributors to society.

I was intimately involved in the program in its infancy, and I can testify that it was implemented without an ideological agenda nor the quota and affirmative action features that have tarnished other efforts to increase ...

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