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This book reveals how major changes in society have created major challenges for the delivery of higher education--challenges that can be met successfully by the power and potential of the urban campus and its flexibility in offering education and services to nontraditional students. Elliott discusses the true significance of urban-based nontraditional campuses, which not only serve student populations that extend beyond 18- to 22-year-old full-time students, but also interact with and respond to the needs of surrounding communities. She describes inequities in accreditation, funding, and faculty performance evaluation and explores limitations and misplaced fears about territorial concerns. Understanding how the urban campus works actually gives the reader an important perspective on our traditional higher education system.

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As the land-grant institutions of the late 19th century opened their gates to the children of the working class and provided practical advice to farmers, so the urban campuses of the 20th century have opened wide their doors to nontraditional students and offered useful advice to cities. Elliott (president, Univ. of Akron) has written one of the few book-length works on urban campuses. She sketches the growth of these campuses since about 1945; defines urban colleges and universities as those that "are not simply in or near the city; they are of the city"; discusses the enormously diverse student bodies and also the faculty of urban campuses, the many frustrations of those who lead such campuses, the numerous linkages between urban campuses and the business, industrial, governmental, and educational organizations that surround them; and predicts how the nation's urban campuses can prepare their students for the 21st century. This book is short, heavily anecdotal, and more a panegyric to urban campuses than a dispassionate analysis of them. Still, it is a moderately useful contribution to the sparse literature about such campuses. General; undergraduate. D. S. Webster; Oklahoma State University

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PEGGY GORDON ELLIOTT, Ph.D., is president, University of Akron, Ohio and a national advocate for urban higher education. Previously, she was chancellor at Indiana University's Northwest campus in Gary.