By John A. Strong
ISBN-10: 1438446969
ISBN-13: 9781438446967
ISBN-10: 1438446977
ISBN-13: 9781438446974
Southampton collage, the easternmost campus of new york collage, opened with nice promise in 1963 and closed in 2005 amidst nice acrimony. positioned in an idyllic environmental environment at the Atlantic shore of big apple, it had a nationally famous marine technology application that produced an exceptional variety of Fulbright awards and a powerful variety of alumni who went directly to careers in prestigious universities and learn facilities. David Steinberg, the president of manhattan collage on the grounds that 1985, spoke of Southampton as “the jewel within the college crown.” even if, an amassing every year deficit led Steinberg and the big apple Board of Trustees to view the campus as an “albatross round the collage neck.” in line with huge interviews of school, directors, scholars, alumni, and employees, this ebook is either a party of a faculty cherished by way of those that have been a part of the campus neighborhood and a cautionary story of a tutorial establishment suffering to outlive with out a adequate endowment.
“This is an extremely well-written narrative heritage of the Southampton department of new york University.” — Long Island background Journal
“John A. robust has written an excellent e-book … there’s not anything like an in-depth publication by means of an excellent historian.” — The Southampton Press
“Running on Empty is that infrequent scholarly beast—the tale of an establishment that perished. This cutting edge examine is an antidote to the varied luck tales that fill the background of upper schooling. disasters tend to be educational orphans, as documents disappear and individuals scatter. robust has conquer these stumbling blocks to inform the tale of a doomed university through the use of the records of ny University’s different campuses and carrying out various oral histories. this is often a magnificent and instructive feat.” — W. Bruce Leslie, coeditor of SUNY at Sixty: The Promise of the country college of recent York
“An vital narrative and research of the background of a small deepest, self reliant university, which didn't live on although it used to be a department of a giant collage. it really is infrequent for a closed university to obtain such thorough attention. This publication is predicated on wide examine in institutional files enriched by means of a variety of oral histories, in addition to own studies and contacts. As an established school member, robust is ready to supply an insider’s standpoint of this very distinctive college.” — Natalie A. Naylor, Professor Emerita, Hofstra University
John A. robust is Professor Emeritus at new york collage. he's the writer of various books, together with The Unkechaug Indians of jap manhattan: A History.
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Running on Empty: The Rise and Fall of Southampton College, 1963–2005 by John A. Strong
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