Talk:School of General Studies

Decision to grant degrees

Presumably the university administration was between a rock and a hard place with the GI Bill. If they wanted to tap into revenue from the GI Bill, which they undoubtedly did, they needed to either allow returning GIs into CC or create separate college for them. Since it really was a separate college then, I'd think that it probably wasn't seen entirely as a redundancy. More like, I think it's grown into one. Feinstein 14:25, 11 March 2007 (PDT)

I was fuzzy on the details and planned to add more stuff later- GS received the right to grant the A.B., in addition to the B.S. in 1967, basically allowing it to grant the same credentials as the College, over the objection of the "almost unanimous opposition from the [Columbia] College faculty." This is well after the GI Bill years, when the University enrollment topped out at a historic high of over 30,000.