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1. Harold Howe II and Associate Consultants, "The City University of New York: Facilities, Finance, and Governance," A Report to the Mayor of the City of New York, December 13, 1978, p. 10.
2. James R. Jordan, private memorandum, October 26, 1977.
3. Thomas P. Robinson, "The Urban College/University in the Eighties," Compact 14 (Spring 1980), p. 15.
4. Ibid.
5. James R. Jordan, "Improving Basic Skills in Birmingham: A Joint Effort by Retired Teachers, Miles College, and the Public Schools," A Tale of Three Cities: Boston, Birmingham, Hartford (New York: Ford Foundation, 1981), p. 47.
6. Ibid., p. 48.
7. Ibid., p. 47.
8. Gail Spangenberg, et al., "Community Outreach in Hartford: A Higher Education Program for Hispanics," A Tale of Three Cities, pp. 54-55.
9. "Notes on a Survey of Counselor Attitudes toward Student Financial Aid," unpublished report. (Washington, D.C.: The Washington Office of the College Board, 1979).
10. Gail Spangenberg, et al., A Tale of Three Cities, p. 67.
11. Adriano Falcon-Trafford, et al., "Where Do We Go From Here?" (Hartford, Conn.: La Casa de Puerto Rico, Inc., 1977).
12. Mary Kinnick, EIC Assessment Project (Portland, Ore.: Educational Coordination Commission, 1979).
13. Frank Baratta and John Selig, A Cooperative Self-Assessment of Programs for the Disadvantaged in the San Francisco Consortium's Universities and Colleges (San Francisco: The San Francisco Consortium, 1980), p. 17.
14. Marilyn McCoy and Barbara Epp, Revenues and Expenditures, 1977-1978 (Boulder, Colo.: National Center for Higher Education Management Systems, 1978), p. 10.
15. M. M. Chambers, Appropriations: State Tax Funds for Operating Expenses of Higher Education, 1979-1980 (Washington, D.C.: National