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Fulfilling the Promise - Virginia Commonwealth University and the City of Richmond, 1968-2009 (Hardcover)
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Fulfilling the Promise - Virginia Commonwealth University and the City of Richmond, 1968-2009 (Hardcover)
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Founded in Richmond in 1968, Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU)
began with a mission to build a university to serve a city emerging
from the era of urban crisis - desegregation, white flight,
political conflict, and economic decline. The product of the merger
of the Medical College of Virginia and the Richmond Professional
Institute combined into one, state-mandated institution, the two
were able to embrace their mission and work together productively.
In Fulfilling the Promise, John Kneebone and Eugene Trani tell the
intriguing story of VCU and the context in which the university was
forged and eventually thrived. Although VCU's history is
necessarily unique, Kneebone and Trani show how the issues shaping
it are common to many urban institutions, from engaging with
two-party politics in Virginia and African American political
leadership in Richmond, to fraught neighborhood relations, the
complexities of providing public health care at an academic health
center, and an increasingly diverse student body. As a result,
Fulfilling the Promise offers far more than a stale institutional
saga. Rather, this definitive history of one urban state university
illuminates the past and future of American public higher education
in the post-1960s era.
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