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Press Release – A New Experimental College

In this press release, The City University of New York's Office of University Relations announces the creation of a new, experimental, two-year college to be "established on a community-oriented basis in central Brooklyn." The press release [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, Board of Trustees, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, State and/or City budget
Tags: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Chancellor Albert Bowker, Community College Number Seven, Experimental Education, Medgar Evers College, Porter R. Chandler, The City University of New York Office of University Relations
Statement by Chancellor Albert H. Bowker Announcing the Establishment of a New Community College

In this statement by CUNY Chancellor Albert H. Bowker on February 1, 1968 in Brooklyn Borough Hall, Bowker announces the establishment of a new, experimental community college in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn. His announcement presents CUNY's hopes [...]

Item Type: Text
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Relationships with Communities, State and/or City budget
Tags: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Chancellor Albert Bowker, Community College Number Seven, Experimental Education, Medgar Evers College
"'Jamaica Center' Envisaged As Mini-Midtown Manhattan"

This April 22, 1968 article from the Daily News discusses the plans of city officials to develop the "long awaited...Jamaica Center" in the heart of South Jamaica, Queens. Intended to help reverse the neighborhood's "decay," the project was expected [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Buildings and/or Architecture, City / State Relations, Relationships with Communities
Tags: Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Jamaica, Queens, York College

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