Women on the Role of Public Higher Education

1. Introduction
Deborah S. Gambs, Rose M. Kim

Part I. Learning to Be Critical

2. The Children of the Whole People Can Be Educated
Michelle Ronda

3. Taking Refuge in the Public University: From Harvard to CUNY
Grace M. Cho

4. The Personal Is Global, the Political Is Communal, the Rest Is Teaching and Mentoring
Laura Fantone

5. Reflections on My Public Education
Angelique Harris

6. Network Analysis: Personal Connections within and across Academies in NYC
Melissa Hope Ditmore

Part II. Building Caring Communities

7. The Accidental Scholar: Overcoming the Odds and Succeeding through CUNY
Jennifer Pastor

8. Starting Over, Starting Again: Reflections on the Foreign Student in Public Higher Education
Hosu Kim

9. Creating Caring Communities at the Graduate Center
Robin G. Isserles

10. Learning to Ask Life’s Big Questions
Rose M. Kim

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

Part III. Becoming and Staying Public

12. Striving to Stay Public
Alia Tyner-Mullings

13. Becoming Public
Deirdre Conlon

14. An Open University: Taking the Experimental Path
Deborah S. Gambs

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

Keywords: Education, Higher Education, Gender Studies, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Education, Methodology of the Social Sciences, Feminism