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| Book Review | Indiana Magazine of History, 102.2 | The History Cooperative
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June, 2006
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IUPUI
The Making of an Urban University

By Ralph D. Gray
(Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2003. Pp. xvi, 339. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00.)

Steel Shavings
Vol. 35: Educating the Calumet
A History of Indiana University Northwest

By Paul B. Kern. Edited by James B. Lane and Paul B. Kern
([Gary]: Indiana University Northwest, 1994. Pp. 288. Illustrations, index. Paperbound, $15.00.)

Writing a history of urban universities is a challenging task–-one reason why these new studies of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and Indiana University Northwest (IUN) make a contribution to a growing body of historical literature. Both studies begin appropriately on a defensive note. The origins, growth, and development of these twentieth-century urban satellite campuses—extensions of a powerful nineteenth-century rural institution—number among Indiana's best kept secrets. Urban universities founded in the second half of the twentieth century have struggled to establish identities of their own while still confronting the needs of disparate and often conflicting constituencies: among them city and state politicians, admissions from a racially and economically diverse mix of students (many of them first-generation commuters from inner city schools), research and teaching faculties, neighborhood economic interests, and not least a central institution using its influence to retain control over satellites. IU is the elephant looming in the background. . . .
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