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"Ready to Learn, Ready to Work"

This City Limits article from 1986 describes LaGuardia Community College's program for homeless women in New York City.

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: Activism, Admissions, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Diversity, Gender, Health and/or Environmental Issues, Immigration, NYC Public Schools, Open Admissions, Relationships with Communities
Tags: Accessibility, Homelessness, Job Training, LaGuardia Community College
"A Community College Examines Its Community"

This article penned by Fern Khan examines LaGuardia Community College's efforts "to become more responsive to the varied needs of its community." This project consisted of an in-depth examination of social and economic characteristics of the [...]

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: Activism, Admissions, Bilingual Education, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Diversity, Immigration, NYC Public Schools, Open Admissions, Relationships with Communities, Remediation
Tags: LaGuardia Community College
Project Enable: Training Program for Homeless Heads of Household Residing in Hotels/Shelters

This November 1986 report details the activities of a training program for homeless mothers in New York City conducted by LaGuardia Community College's Division of Continuing Education. The program, which covered personal counselling, job training [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: Activism, Admissions, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Diversity, Gender, Health and/or Environmental Issues, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation
Tags: Continuing Education, Homelessness, LaGuardia Community College
Demonstration at the United Nations Against Genocidal Racism in the City University

Demonstrating at the United Nations, the President of the Black Student Union wrote this leaflet to explain how systemic racism in public education denies black and Latino students equal rights to obtain a degree. He pulls from Kenneth Clark's "Dark [...]

Item Type: Text (Flier / Leaflet (1 or 2 page handout))
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Community Colleges, NYC Public Schools, Student Organizations
Tags: Black Student Union, Hostos Community College, Human Rights, Protest, Racism, United Nations

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