The Urban University in America : Praeger : 9780313200311 : 0313200319 : 12 Apr 1978 : Maurice Berube, a New York educational consultant, surveys the urban universities' public policies - community relations, minority admissions, urban and black studies programs - while promoting the schools' possible larger social role. Regrettably, this well-written work has not been well thought out. Nowhere does Berube define the "urban America" he says constitutes the home for a majority of Americans; in actuality, only 15.6% of the population lives in cities of more than 500,000 persons, those to which he refers most often. The stress, in fact, is on a few large cities' circumstances, with New York City (CUNY and Columbia) the overwhelming favorite. A second, less severe problem is the work's historical superficiality; apart from a pedestrian recounting of the impact of the 1862 Land Grant College Act, Berube writes of the 1960s and 1970s. He fails to note, for example, that earlier in this centu