The successful launch of this Russian rocket prompted legislators to create the National Defense Education Act of 1958.
What is Sputnik?
100
According to the AAJC, states needed to create multipurpose institutions with a strong vocational curriculum called...
What are comprehensive community colleges?
100
The nickname coined for those students during the early 19th century who abandoned farm life and entered college to study ministry and become ministers.
Who are the outsiders?
100
Often referred to as the President's Commission on Higher Education, this called for "equality of opportunity"
What is the Truman Commission Report?
100
After the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, the University of Illinois created and implemented this program to increase diversity on campus
What is SEOP (Special Educational Opportunities Program)?
200
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 21 Stayed, a book based on research of the American GI’s who were allegedly brainwashed to convert to Communism by their Chinese captors during the Korean War.
Who is Virginia Pasley?
200
A three tiered system based on the allocation of students by high school GPA
What is the California Master Plan?
200
This is considered the birthplace of the third path college students will take, the path of rebellion.
What is Harvard?
200
In the years following the war, junior college enrollment increased to what percent of all higher education enrollment
What is 10%?
200
Under the SEOP, this project brought “disadvantaged” or “underprivileged” students to the University of Illinois
What is Project 500?
300
This foundation became the largest philanthropic organization in the world when the founder of its company died, giving its new board of directors the ability to create specialized programs for educating adult learners, such as the Fund for Adult Education created in 1951
What is the Ford Foundation?
300
Top 12.5 %, Top 1/3, Open to all
What are admissions criteria?
300
1950s author whose popular poetry and novels formed the Beats movement that helped shape the consciousness of experimental undergraduates.
Who is Allen Ginsberg (or Jack Kerouac)?
300
These are programs that meet the needs of semi-professional occupations and do not require four years of college training
What is terminal curriculum or terminal programs?
300
Meeting the demands of African American students for an active presence on campus, this center was created to assist in providing a safe and welcoming environment for African American students and a resources regarding African American contributions and issues
What is the Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center?
400
This private, not-for-profit agency coordinated the international exchange of people and ideas. The federal government relied on them to coordinate the student exchange programs created during the 1950s.
What is the Institute of International Education (IIE)?
400
Completing a doctoral dissertation at the University of Chicago, this person examined the issue of democratization versus diversion
Who is Vincent Tinto?
400
The percentage of students from the total college population that participated in some type of demonstration during the 1960s.
What is 28%
400
With the passing of this act, community colleges became eligible to receive 22% of authorized “developing institutions” funds
What is the Higher Education Act of 1965?
400
This was the first African American yearbook to be published at University of Illinois by the Black Student Association and contains photos of the Black Student Association, other African American organizations, class photos, and candid shots
What is “Irepodun?
500
These two politicians created policies that pushed education policy beyond the borders of the U.S. and into the global realm in an effort to aid in the reconstruction of education in war-torn European countries.
Who are J. William Fullbright and Karl Mundt?
500
This effect, coined by Vincent Tinto (1975), spoke to the choosing of a community college over a four-year institution
What is substitution?
500
The sociologist who studied the initiators of campus radicalism in the 1960s and defined them as being people who were usually the democratically bred, intelligent children of highly educated parents.
Who is Richard Flacks?
500
These states blocked the growth and expansion of junior colleges during the 1950s and 1960s, due to fear of competition for students and resources
Who are Indiana, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Ohio?
500
A newsletter for African American alumni, which discussed programs on campus. It now includes local artwork, interview with African Studies professors and experts, and other items related to African Studies