Audrey Cohen

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Educator Audrey Cohen founded the Women's Talent Corps in 1964, located at 75 Varick Street in Tribeca. Later, the Talent Corps became The College for Human Services, which in turn became Audrey Cohen College, which in 2002 (six years after Cohen's death in 1996) was renamed Metropolitan College of New York ([1]).

Audrey Cohen, in collaboration with educator Janith Jordan, developed an educational system known as Purpose-Centered Education.

Audrey Cohen's writings include the following:

• A new educational paradigm (an article from the Phi Delta Kappan dated June 1, 1993)
• Predictors of public or private employment for business college graduates (an article from Public Personnel Management dated March 22, 1993)
• Women and Higher Education: Recommendations for Change (Eric reports; 1971)
• The citizen as the integrating agent: Productivity in the Human Services (from the Human Services monograph series; 1978)
• The founding of a new profession: the Human Service Professional (1974)
• Citizen Empowerment Guide (1977)

[edit] References

• Metropolitan College of New York's Web site
• "BULLETIN BOARD; New Name, Expanding Mandate" by Lia Miller, The New York Times,October 9, 2002, retrieved July 12, 2006