Press Archive, Goddard College Governance Issues

Press Archive
Goddard College Governance Issues

Below are links to press clippings (from 1938 to the present) related to governance issues at Goddard College.

We present these, along with official college governance documents and correspondence that took place between individuals regarding governance issues, in an effort to be as comprehensive as possible in documenting the history of governance at Goddard. Although we rarely endorse the views that the commercial press puts forward on the issues and events on which they report, the documents they generate constitute a 'public record' of sorts. From it anyone with a serious historical interest in understanding what has taken place in Goddard governance policies and practices since 1938 can gleen much information. A number of these clippings are referenced in papers that appear on this web site, and paraphrasing or quoting snippets from these articles would not provide the reader with the full flavor of exactly what was publically said at the time and how it was said. So we opted to present primary source materials here, and let the material speak for itself.

We also wanted to provide the reader with a good historical sense of precisely how the commercial press contexted governance-related debates, activities, and decisions at Goddard. Although a few reporters are to be credited with accuracy and understanding, many sought to minimize the importance of the questions that were raised, and to expose the group that raised such questions to ridicule - despite the fact that this group constituted an overwhelming majority of the Goddard community at the time - the students, faculty, staff and board members who took issue with the corporatization of the college and the increasingly authoritarian policies of the college administration.

The links below are listed chronologically, and labeled according to -

Title of Article, Date, and Publication

The Early Years (1938-1969)

Under Royce Pitkin, Founder (1938-1969)