Policy choices about university size created physically segregated cities of youth

Evidence

Relative to age in American technological society, we may note that the coincidence between it and territory is proceeding apace and is most spectacular in the host communities of the ever-expanding multiversities. Into many of these communities in recent years, there have thronged literally tens of thousands of what we might call “youth” -human animals ranging in age from late teens to middle twenties. Because the political powers have opted for the model of a few large educational institutions, rather than many small ones, “cities of youth” are being created. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 418

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Professors’ residential segregation from students breeds self-declared liberalism masking classroom conservatism — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 261; Overcrowded engaged classrooms degrade into edutainment spectacles — bell hooks, Teaching to Transgress: Education as…, 320