Open Admissions
As City College began the Open Admissions program in 1970, the number of SEEK students requiring the services overseen by Shaughnessy grew to 3,500. In addition to running the rapidly expanding SEEK program, she also synthesized her vast research of her students’ writing to solidify her approach to basic writing. She used this information to create a graduate level course on teaching basic writing for the instructors in the SEEK program, to give reports on the program to the college’s administration, and to formulate the ideas she would use to write several articles on basic writing.
During this time she made friends almost solely from among the teachers in and supporters of the SEEK and Open Admissions programs, among them was Adrienne Rich. Rich was a great support in recognizing the hard work and dedication of Shaughnessy to her students.
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Famous quotes containing the word open:
“Each man has his own vocation. The talent is the call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. He has faculties silently inviting him thither to endless exertion. He is like a ship in the river; he runs against obstructions on every side but one; on that side all obstruction is taken away, and he sweeps serenely over a deepening channel into an infinite sea.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)