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Transforming the Urban University - Northeastern, 1996-2006 (Hardcover)
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Transforming the Urban University - Northeastern, 1996-2006 (Hardcover)
Series: The City in the Twenty-First Century
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In Transforming the Urban University, Richard M. Freeland reviews
how Northeastern University in Boston, historically an
access-oriented, private urban university serving commuter students
from modest backgrounds and characterized by limited academic
ambitions and local reach, transformed itself into a selective,
national, and residential research university. Having served as
president during a critical decade in this transition, Freeland
recounts the school's efforts to retain key features from
Northeastern's urban history-an emphasis on undergraduate teaching
and learning, a curriculum focused on preparing students for the
workplace, its signature program of cooperative education, and its
broad involvement in the life of the city-while at the same time
raising admission standards, recruiting students on a regional and
national basis, improving graduation rates, expanding opportunities
for research and graduate education and dramatically improving its
U.S. News ranking. Freeland situates the Northeastern story within
the evolving context of urban higher education as well as broader
trends among American universities during the second half of the
twentieth century. He documents the way Northeastern maintained its
historic values while making innovative use of modern marketing
techniques to meet the competitive conditions of the academic
marketplace. He shows how Northeastern rejected the standard model
of the modern research university and instead reinvented itself as
a new kind of urban university: making excellence in the
undergraduate experience its top priority; stressing
practice-oriented education and research; and emphasizing the
academic benefits of its urban setting as well as the importance of
contributing to the well-being of its host city. In chronicling
Northeastern's recovery from what the school's trustees called a
"near-death" experience, Freeland challenges the conventional
narrative of what a university must do to achieve top-tier national
status.
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