ABSTRACT
This chapter offers a case study of Brockport State Teachers College in western New York State. Pioneering mass higher education was one of post-World War II America's greatest achievements. The chapter evaluates the dramatic post-Sputnik criticisms of state teachers colleges that contributed to their demise as single-purpose institutions and their historical invisibility. State University of New York's Board of Trustees accepted the idea and its 1960 Master Plan proposed that each state teachers college would be converted into a "multi-purpose institution embracing liberal arts and sciences along with teacher education". In a real sense, the Honors Program was the curricular analog of what we found with student life, the creation of state teachers college that increasingly mirrored the traditional images of collegiate life. The chapter examines Brockport's transformation from a typical state teachers college into a surprisingly experimental comprehensive college.
