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Title: America’s Great Working-Class Colleges *Author: *Dave Leonhardt

*Source: *NYT

*Date*: Jan 18, 2017 Summary: The heyday of the colleges that serve America’s working class can often feel very long ago. It harks back to the mid-20th century, when City College of New York cost http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/forum/2011/10/12/when-tuition-at-cuny-was-free-sort-of/ only a few hundred dollars a year and was known as the “Harvard of the proletariat.” Out West, California built http://www.ucop.edu/academic-personnel-programs/programs-and-initiatives/faculty-resources-advancement/faculty-handbook-sections/brief-history.html an entire university system that was both accessible and excellent.

*Link: *http://nyti.ms/2iKuvaq

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