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:
“To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart!”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)