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Prairie State College in Its First Quarter Century, 1957-1982: a Community College History/By Richard G DOCUMENT RESUME ED 377 906 JC 950 036 AUTHOR Sherman, Richard G. TITLE Prairie State College in Its First QuarterCentury, 1957-1982: A Community College History. INSTITUTION Prairie State Coll., Chicago Heights, Iii. PUB DATE 94 NOTE 399p.; Photographs may not reproduce well. PUB TYPE Historical Materials (060) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC16 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS *College Administration; *Community Colleges; *Educational History; *InstitutionalCharacteristics; *Organizational Change; Two Year Colleges IDENTIFIERS *Prairie State College IL ABSTRACT Written especially for students, staff,faculty, administrators, and trustees of the college,this history of Prairie State College in Illinois traces t.,he college'sdevelopment from its inception in 1957 through 1982. Thisbook contains the following chapters:(1) "A Community Emerges"; (2) "AnAmerican Educational Institution Emerges";(3) "Higher Educb.ion Under Siege";(4) "A Junior College Is Founded";(5) "A Junior College in Infancy"; (6) "Becoming a Community College";(7) "Breaking Away and Forginga Community";(8) "Looking towarda New Era";(9) "Hard Problems Thwart High Hopes"; (10) "Turmoil Strikes in.the Late Sixties"; (11) "Administration and Faculty Alienate";(12) "Alienation Increases and a President Is Terminated"; (13) "New Leadership andReappraisal"; (.14) "A Main Campus at Last"; (15)"Student Services and Activities";. (16) "Faculty and AdministrationStrains Continue But Improve";(17) "Carrying Out the Community College Mission";(18) "Getting Along with the System and Neighbors"; (19) "Another Era Begins";(20) "Adjusting to a New Campus anda New Administration"; (21) "Profile of a Community College Approaching Its FirstQuarter-of-a-Century"; (22) "Continuing the Task ofa Community College"; (23) "Providing More Community Services"; (24) "ProvidingMore Student Services"; (25) "Apogee and.Dismay"; and (26)"The College Reachesa Milestone. (The history includes fivepages of sources and a chronology). (KP) *****************---i,A;.AA*********************************** Reproductions supplied by EDRSare the best that can be made from the original document. ************************************************),--************ III 11.1 1957 1982 1/41111,(11-4. ;9eCd ,4)1{47 U S DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PERMISSION Office of Educational Research and Improvement TO REPRODUCETHIS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION MATERIAL HASBEEN GRANTED CENTER (ERIC) BY Vhis document has been reproduced as D. Czuprynski snowed from the person or organization originating it Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction clualitY Points of view or opinions stated in this docu- TO THE EDUCATIONAL ment do not necessarily represent official RESOURCES OERI position or policy INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC)." BEST COPY AVAILABLE B Y RICHARD G SHER M A NT) PRAIRIE STATECOLLEGE IN ITS FIRSTQUARTER-CENTURY,1957-82: A COMMUNITYCOLLEGE HISTORY By Richard G. Sherman o Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, Illinois 60411 Copyright © 1992 by Prairie State College All rights reserved First edition, Second Printing 1994 Published and distributed by Prairie State College No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, includingphotocopying and recording, without permission in writing from Prairie State College. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sherman, Richard G. Prairie State College In Its First Quarter Century, 1957-1982: A Community College History/by Richard G. Sherman Includes bibliographical notes and index ISBN 0-963276-0-X 1. Prairie State College, Chicago Heights, IL 2. Community Colleges - Illinois - History LD6501.P62 1992 92-80996 TO PRAIRIE STATE COLLEGE WHERE I SPENT THE MAJORITY OF MY ACADEMIC CAREER i CONTENTS Foreword ii Preface iii Acknowledgments iv Introduction: 1 Illinois Higher Education 1960-1980/ACommunity and Prairie State College One: A Community Emerges Origins of a College Community/Nationalities, 6 Minorities and a Melting Pot/Industrialismand Urbanism Arrive/Between Two Wars Two: An American Educational Institution Emerges 19 A State Public Junior College SystemArrives/Early Illinois Public Junior colleges,1920-1941 Three: Higher Education Under Siege 29 The Federal Government RecommendsJunior College/ Illinois Higher Education Has NoPlan and No Program Four: A Junior College is Founded 37 The Cradle of a Junior College/Suburbiaand Separation/A Junior College at Last Five: A Junior College in Infancy 52 Creating an Illinois System of PublicJunior ^"eges, 1958-1966/Getting Started:The First A tvo Years, 1958-1960 Six: Becoming a Community College More Programs for More Students/Obtaining 64 Accreditation and Making Hard Choices Seven: Breaking Away and Forging a Community 76 Year of Transition/A de Facto CollegeBecomes de jure Through Annexation/Selectinga Site and an Architect/Selecting a New President fora New College t) Eight: Looking Toward a New Era 99 A College Community in Transition/An Overview of Component Parts/Toward a New Image Nine: Hard Problems Thwart High Hopes 110 An Interim Campus Emerges/Attempting to Obtain a Site: Acrimony and Complexity/Financing,1967- 1970: From the Heights to the Depths Ten: Turmoil Strikes in the Late Sixties 124 The Civil Rights Movement Arrives/A Black Studies Program/Student Stresses, Strains and Protests Eleven: Administration and Faculty Alienate 139 Internal Governance and Faculty Participation/ A Faculty Union is Organized Twelve: Alienation Increases and a President 148 is Terminated A Spring of Discontent/A President is terminated Thirteen: New Leadership and Reappraisal 158 The Nadir of a Community College/Taking Stock and Planning/Getting a Temporary Handle on Deficit Spending/Trustees and Internal Issues, 1970-1975 Fourteen: A Main Campus at Last 177 Main Campus Construction Revitalized/Annexation Resolved/The Main Building and Campus Completed at Last Fifteen: Student Services and Activities 186 A Student Profile/Student Aid/Student Life and Activities/Intercollegiate Athletics Sixteen: Faculty and Administration Strains Continue 197 But Improve Faculty Profile and Affirmative Action/Stresses, strains and Strikes Seventeen: Carrying Out the Community College Mission 204 Providing for Individual Educational Needs/Providing for Community Education Needs/Accountability: Accredi- tation and Certification Eighteen: Getting Along With the System and Neighbors 214 Functioning Within the Illinois Community College System, 1970-1975/Functioning With Non-College-District Neighbors Nineteen: Another Era Begins 223 A President Resigns/Transitionand Finding Another President Twenty: Adjusting to a New Campus and a New Administration 230 Occupying a New, Main Building/ALittle New and More of the Old Twenty One: Profile ofa Community College Approaching Its First Quarter-of-a-Century 239 Board of Trustees and Administration,1975-1982/ Faculty and Supportive Staff/ACommunity Moves Along Twenty Two: Continuing the Task of a Community College 251 Providing Transfer Programs/ProvidingMore Occupa- tional Programs/Providing forBasic Educational Needs Twenty Three: Providing More Community.Services 260 Providing Community Educationand Services/Providing Cooperative Services Twenty Four: Providing More Student Services 266 More of the Same and SomeNew/Activities: More of the Same and,Some New Twenty Five: Apogee andDismay 275 A Tax Referendum Succeedsat Last/Short-lived High Hopes/Minding the Store, 1978-1982 Twenty Six: The College Reaches a Milestone 287 Continuing Contention/Endingthe First Quarter- Century in Discord Conclusion 303 Sources 313 Endnotes 318 Chronology 351 Index 374 FOREWORD My formal association with Prairie State Collegewas limited to teaching acourse in political science in thesummer of 1979. Yet in a For Prairie State College did way, I was "present at the creation." not suddenly emerge fullgrown., with campus, buildings, staff and thousands of studentson Halsted Street, in Chicago Heights, Illinois.OriginallyI knew the institutionas Bloom Community College. A community college is a "people place." As such it becomesan organic entity, living, growing,ever changing, as people grow, mature and change. In thiscontext Dr. Sherman traces the originsof the college through the origins of several high schooldistricts within the community thatformed the college. I remember well how theinstitution began. After discussion, in 1957 the numerous studies and much citizens of the Bloom Townshiparea voted to support a college designed to meet the post-highschool and adult education community. A small professional, needs of the people ofthe part-time staff spent thesummer of 1958 bringing Bloom Township Community Collegeinto being. The first yearwas especially harrowing. Curriculum staffing were major challenges. planning, course developmentand Some of the bits and piecesof administrative were developed on an "as needed" operation basis.I remember thesense of panic I felt in mid- semester when I realizeda grading and reporting system had yet to be finalized anda permanent record and transcript formapproved and printed. With nurturing, the college,stabilized, grew andmet its goals. An evaluation of the academiccompetence of faculty and students, and student service the appropriateness ofthe curriculum programs culminated in the accreditationof the college by theNorth Central Association of Collegesand Secondary Schoolsin the spring of 1965. However, major changeswere just off the horizon. The education in the late 1950s ferment in Illinois higher and early 1960s ledto the publishing
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