Harris Wofford describes the backgrounds of those who planned the college; examines the move from an internationalist “school of the world” to one that would address urban problems, and notes planners’ hope for a British “college of colleges” for the university structure. Planners and SUNY administrators in Albany disagreed on the nature of the college experiment, and ultimately tensions arose between students and administrators, and between faculty and administrators, over the college’s identity. Wofford also details the unraveling of planners’ aspirations—including the spring 1969 sit in, and Frankfurt School theorist Herbert Marcuse’s 1970 visit to the Old Westbury campus.
