Yes, the City Colleges have problems, most of them beyond the capacity of Chancellor Ronald J. Temple or any other individual to solve (“City Colleges chief fails to make grade, foes say,” Page 1, Jan. 12).
But as I near the end of a 40-year teaching career at Wright College, I want to point out that we have our strengths and successes as well.
At Wright College, we publish an award-winning literary magazine and an award-winning student newspaper. We have a fledgling Great Books Curriculum through which we are beginning to bring back the classics so often ignored in schools and colleges today. We offer a popular Shakespeare course and traditional surveys of English and American literature, as well as other literature electives.
We have an innovative math scholarship program funded by private donation. We have a Phi Theta Kappa honor society chapter that helps students win scholarships at four-year colleges and universities. We change lives, including those of very capable students who lack the money to go elsewhere, as well as those who need our lowest remedial classes but later progress to the college credit level and graduation.
It may be impossible for City Colleges to serve everyone well, with our bureaucratic overload and our outdated computer equipment, but we at Wright are doing many things right. Potential students and philanthropists, please note!
