David R. Godschalk and Jonathan B. Howes
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- July 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781469607252
- eISBN:
- 9781469608280
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of North Carolina Press
- DOI:
- 10.5149/9781469607269_Godschalk
- Subject:
- Education, History of Education
This book tells the story of the sweeping makeover of the 200-year old campus of the University of North Carolina. Six million square feet of new buildings were constructed and a million square feet ...
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This book tells the story of the sweeping makeover of the 200-year old campus of the University of North Carolina. Six million square feet of new buildings were constructed and a million square feet of historic buildings were renovated during one vibrant ten-year period. To make this massive growth work required bold thinking. A new Master Plan created a vision for combining historic preservation, green building, and long-range development. A statewide bond issue for higher education capital facilities, supplemented with outside support, generated $1.5 billion in capital funding. Previous town-gown tensions were swept aside as university officials and elected leaders collaborated on critical planning and zoning innovations. Award-winning plans and designs inspired new student living and learning communities. University facilities and construction staff doubled and a design review board formed to handle the increased load of new projects. Detailed design guidelines ensured that new development would be compatible with the traditional campus landscape as well as sensitive to environmental conservation. Written by authors who held major planning roles and supplemented with key player interviews, the book describes the politics, planning, and design that shaped the Dynamic Decade. Illustrated with color photographs and maps, this comprehensive account offers lessons to all concerned with sustainable university growth.Less
This book tells the story of the sweeping makeover of the 200-year old campus of the University of North Carolina. Six million square feet of new buildings were constructed and a million square feet of historic buildings were renovated during one vibrant ten-year period. To make this massive growth work required bold thinking. A new Master Plan created a vision for combining historic preservation, green building, and long-range development. A statewide bond issue for higher education capital facilities, supplemented with outside support, generated $1.5 billion in capital funding. Previous town-gown tensions were swept aside as university officials and elected leaders collaborated on critical planning and zoning innovations. Award-winning plans and designs inspired new student living and learning communities. University facilities and construction staff doubled and a design review board formed to handle the increased load of new projects. Detailed design guidelines ensured that new development would be compatible with the traditional campus landscape as well as sensitive to environmental conservation. Written by authors who held major planning roles and supplemented with key player interviews, the book describes the politics, planning, and design that shaped the Dynamic Decade. Illustrated with color photographs and maps, this comprehensive account offers lessons to all concerned with sustainable university growth.
Matthew Johnson
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781501748585
- eISBN:
- 9781501748592
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501748585.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, Cultural History
This chapter examines the origins of affirmative action in the University of Michigan (UM). The pressure that led to the university's first undergraduate affirmative action admissions program came ...
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This chapter examines the origins of affirmative action in the University of Michigan (UM). The pressure that led to the university's first undergraduate affirmative action admissions program came from a federal bureaucrat and the president of the United States, who were both responding to black activism for workplace justice. Yet this pressure never threatened UM with the loss of lucrative federal contracts or potential court cases. UM adopted affirmative action in 1964 because people at the top of the institution wanted the university to change. This environment of weak federal coercion created a perfect recipe for co-optation. After the initial dose of federal pressure, UM officials took control of the purpose and character of affirmative action, creating a program that preserved the university's long-established priorities and values. It is no surprise, then, that between 1964 and 1967, black enrollment rose from only 0.5 to 1.65 percent of the student body. However, given that African Americans constituted more than 10 percent of the state population, affirmative action made a small dent in the racial disparities at UM.Less
This chapter examines the origins of affirmative action in the University of Michigan (UM). The pressure that led to the university's first undergraduate affirmative action admissions program came from a federal bureaucrat and the president of the United States, who were both responding to black activism for workplace justice. Yet this pressure never threatened UM with the loss of lucrative federal contracts or potential court cases. UM adopted affirmative action in 1964 because people at the top of the institution wanted the university to change. This environment of weak federal coercion created a perfect recipe for co-optation. After the initial dose of federal pressure, UM officials took control of the purpose and character of affirmative action, creating a program that preserved the university's long-established priorities and values. It is no surprise, then, that between 1964 and 1967, black enrollment rose from only 0.5 to 1.65 percent of the student body. However, given that African Americans constituted more than 10 percent of the state population, affirmative action made a small dent in the racial disparities at UM.
Noam Reisner
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199698707
- eISBN:
- 9780191740756
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199698707.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Milton Studies, 17th-century and Restoration Literature
An examination of the young Milton's Latin obituary poems with special emphasis on the elegy on the death of Lancelot Andrewes (Elegia tertia. In Obitum Praesulis Wintoniensis) reveals that the death ...
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An examination of the young Milton's Latin obituary poems with special emphasis on the elegy on the death of Lancelot Andrewes (Elegia tertia. In Obitum Praesulis Wintoniensis) reveals that the death of dignitaries was not merely an occasional opportunity for the young poet to display his urbanity and poetic promise, but also an intellectual stimulant to interrogate ideas of rapture, renewal, loss, and poetic self‐determination. Such ideas become central concerns for the more mature Milton. In particular the idea and fear of death itself—of loss of voice and identity—set Milton's young classical imagination in motion and account for the seemingly inappropriate eroticism and ecstatic visions of ineffable, transcendental rapture found in these formal and much neglected elegies.Less
An examination of the young Milton's Latin obituary poems with special emphasis on the elegy on the death of Lancelot Andrewes (Elegia tertia. In Obitum Praesulis Wintoniensis) reveals that the death of dignitaries was not merely an occasional opportunity for the young poet to display his urbanity and poetic promise, but also an intellectual stimulant to interrogate ideas of rapture, renewal, loss, and poetic self‐determination. Such ideas become central concerns for the more mature Milton. In particular the idea and fear of death itself—of loss of voice and identity—set Milton's young classical imagination in motion and account for the seemingly inappropriate eroticism and ecstatic visions of ineffable, transcendental rapture found in these formal and much neglected elegies.
