| Institution: | MARILYN GITTELL is a Professor of Political Science at the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. Dr. Gittell is currently conducting research on women activists, community-based higher education, and editing a book on state politics. Her books include Lato to Citizen Participation: The Decline of Comnity Organizations;City Life: A Documentary History of the American City of which she is coeditor;Local School Boards and School Policy;LocaZ Control of Education;Participants and Participation: A Study of School Policy in New York City. She is also the author of Comnity Control a d the Urban School, and Six Urban School Districts: A Comparative Study of Institutional Response. Among her other activities. Dr. Gittell was Assistant Vice President at Brooklyn College from 1973–1978;a consultant to the Bundy Panel, Chairperson of the Chancellor's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women at the City University, a member of the Planning Comittee of the White House Conference on Children and Youth, and editor of the Urban Affairs Quarterly. Dr. Gittell received her A.B. from Brooklyn College in 1952 where she was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. She received an M.P.A. from New York University in 1953. and her Ph.D. from New York University in 1960. |
