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Prometheus, February 10, 1971

This issue of Prometheus, BMCC's student newspaper, is dubbed by its editors as "Liberated" Prometheus, a reflection of the editorial sensibilities of the new student government dominated by the Third World Coalition, a group of black and Latino/a [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Community Colleges, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Gender, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Black Power, Borough of Manhattan Community College, Puerto Rico, Student Newspapers / Journals, Third World Coalition
Tiger Paper, April 1972

This edition of the Tiger Paper includes: interviews with BMCC students who were veterans of the Vietnam War, criticism of the college's registration process, a front page article detailing the firing of a professor, and an interview [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Gender, Labor Unions, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Child Care, Edgar Draper, Editorial, Faculty Publication, Jose Antonio Irizarry, Legislative Conference, United Federation of College Teachers, Vietnam War
Tiger Paper, March 1974

This issue of the Tiger Paper exposes what the editors consider a sham testimonial dinner for BMCC President Edgar Draper. Other articles of interest include an extended interview with a BMCC student who served in Vietnam, the detailing of [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Buildings and/or Architecture, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Labor Unions, Politics
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Child Care, Edgar Draper, Editorial, Faculty Publication, Vietnam War, Women’s Movement / Feminism
Tiger Paper, May 1974

This issue of the Tiger Paper leads with a blistering rebuke of a New York Times investigation into mismanagement at BMCC, one which Tiger Paper editors claim paints a falsely damning picture of students at the college. [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Board of Higher Education, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Gender, Open Admissions, Remediation, Student Organizations
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Faculty Publication, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Media / Press, Prisons, Women’s Movement / Feminism
Tiger Paper, November 1971

This inaugural issue of the Tiger Paper takes on the BMCC administration over mismangement of student fees and interference in student government. It also contains stories on BMCC's newly-inaugurated childcare center, a feature on the travails of [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Austerity, CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Gender, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Governor Nelson Rockefeller
Tiger Paper, February 1972

This issue of the Tiger Paper contains humorous takedowns of the college administration, a call for free subways, a critique of the state of nursing education, and an extended interview with radical poet Sonia Sanchez.The Tiger Paper, which [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Academic Freedom, Activism, Board of Higher Education, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Gender, Health and/or Environmental Issues, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Edgar Draper, Editorial, Faculty Publication, Media / Press, Sonia Sanchez
Oral History Interview with Bill Friedheim and Jim Perlstein of Borough of Manhattan Community College

This oral history interview with retired Borough of Manhattan Community College professors Bill Friedheim and Jim Perlstein was conducted at the CUNY Graduate Center on June 1, 2015. Friedheim and Perlstein were intimately involved in many of the [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Academic Freedom, Activism, Board of Trustees, Buildings and/or Architecture, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Gender, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, Student Organizations
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College

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