Women on the Role of Public Higher Education

Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 2 The Children of the Whole People Can Be Educated

Chapter 3 Taking Refuge in the Public University: From Harvard to CUNY

Chapter 4 The Personal Is Global, the Political Is Communal, the Rest Is Teaching and Mentoring

Chapter 5 Reflections on My Public Education

Chapter 6 Network Analysis: Personal Connections within and across Academies in NYC

Chapter 7 The Accidental Scholar: Overcoming the Odds and Succeeding through CUNY

Chapter 8 Starting Over, Starting Again: Reflections on the Foreign Student in Public Higher Education

Chapter 9 Creating Caring Communities at the Graduate Center

Chapter 10 Learning to Ask Life’s Big Questions

Chapter 11 My Not-At-All-Private Metamorphosis: On the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and Public School Spaces

Chapter 12 Striving to Stay Public

Chapter 14 An Open University: Taking the Experimental Path

Chapter 15 An International Student’s Reflections on the CUNY Years: Far Away, So Close