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Author Gumbel, Andrew, author.

Title Won't lose this dream : how an upstart urban university rewrote the rules of a broken system / Andrew Gumbel.

Publication Info. New York : The New Press, 2020.
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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  378.758 GUM    Check Shelf
 Glastonbury, Welles-Turner Memorial Library - Adult Department  378.758 GUMBEL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  378.75 GUM    Check Shelf
 Wethersfield Public Library - Non Fiction  378.75 GUMBEL    Check Shelf
Description 310 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-298) and index.
Contents Introduction: The dreariness with those Harvard kids -- Fishing village -- Admit them -- Who are we? Where are we going? -- The path to destruction -- Multidimensional chess -- Moneyball on campus -- This is not a scam, do not hang up -- A well-managed plantation -- Birth of an idea -- The feeling is mutual -- A hundred years from now -- Rogue cows -- Secure the bag -- Reproducibility.
Summary "The extraordinary story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Georgia State University -- Administration.
Georgia State University -- Students.
Low-income college students -- Georgia.
Youth with social disabilities -- Education (Higher) -- Georgia.
Education, Higher -- Social aspects -- Georgia.
Georgia State University. (OCoLC)fst00531442
Education, Higher -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00903107
Low-income college students. (OCoLC)fst01738173
Management. (OCoLC)fst01007141
Students. (OCoLC)fst01136041
Youth with social disabilities -- Education (Higher) (OCoLC)fst01183668
Georgia. (OCoLC)fst01204622
ISBN 9781620974704 (hardcover)
1620974703
9781620974711 (ebook)
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