The flava:
Eileen Moran Brown, a co-founder of Cambridge College in Massachusetts, saw potential in students most other schools didn’t want.
The college’s students typically arrive as working adults and often are struggling to make ends meet. They include dropouts from other schools, former prison inmates and people who had low test scores. Classes are held in the evening and on weekends to accommodate those working full time.
Brown, who died Sept. 28 of cancer at the age of 87, often said higher education shouldn’t be “just be for the privileged and the lucky.” She gave students credit for life and work experiences. She expected them to learn from one another in class discussions, not just from their professors.
Despite the school’s aspirational name, students found no ivy or dreaming spires. For more than two decades, the nonprofit college was based in a drab four-story office building between Harvard and MIT in Cambridge. . . .
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