Document Type

Other

Publication Date

1-1-1881

Abstract

Report seven from the sixth bound volume of ten which documents in part the first nineteen years of The Free Academy, the predecessor of the educational institution, City College of New York. COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK. 1856-96. REPORTS OF THE FACULTY II, includes 21 individual reports. At a time when municipal education constituted primary schooling, citizens united in response to arguments presented by a merchant and Board of Education President, Townsend Harris, for the necessity of an institution that would provide advanced training for future generations of citizens to fully engage in the professions advantageous to an expanding urban center. Includes preliminary reports that commented on the application of resources for the creation of the institution and the annual reports of the faculty, demonstrating accountability to the Board of Education with regard to the operation of the facility., UNIVERSITY OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK - THE THIRTIETH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE FACULTY OF THE COLLEGE OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK TO THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES, DECEMBER, 1881. [11 pages (1-11), 1881], RGB

Comments

Materials Relating to Governing Board of the Free Academy and the College of the City of New York Collection Prior to Establishment of the Board of Higher Education Collection of Division of Archives and Special Collections, Morris R. Cohen Library, City College of New York (CUNY): Annual Reports of the Faculty of the Free Academy, 1854-1865; Board of Education Annual Reports on the Free Academy, 1851-1865.

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