Experiments in the Academy

In 1972 I established an experimental college at NYU. The word experimental was and remains ambiguous. I argued at the time that students should be conversant with a traditional list of classic texts, but the delivery of instruction may be unorthodox, i.e. the new technologies, tutorial, cross college registration. However, as the enclosed pieces suggest I was in a “small” university overwhelmed by the fervent belief the academy should be transformed along the lines of the prevailing radical agenda.