CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

A participatory project to collect and preserve the histories of the City University of New York

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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
Medgar Evers College - The Pursuit of a Community's Dream

In this short book, Medgar Evers College: The Pursuit of a Community's Dream, CUNY retired professors Florence Tager and Zala Highsmith-Taylor tell the story of the founding of the college. As an institution born largely out of 1960s [...]

Item Type: Text (Book (excerpt))
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Activism, Admissions, Board of Higher Education, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Politics, Relationships with Communities
Tags: Bowker Files, Community College Number Seven, Florence Tager, Louise Glover, Medgar Evers College, Upward Mobility, Zala Highsmith-Taylor
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
We Must Stand United - Bronx Community College, a Center for Black Activism

We Must Stand United explores the contributions of history makers such as James Colston, Roscoe Brown, and countless generations of students who have made Bronx Community College (BCC) a center of black activism. It demonstrates BCC's crucial [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Buildings and/or Architecture, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Politics, Student Organizations
Tags: Black Panthers, Bronx Community College, Civil Rights Movement, James Colston, Racial Injustice, Roscoe Brown, Social Class, Student Activism
"City's Personnel Policies Called Biased"

This New York Times article outlines charges against the city that alleged discrimination against women and racial minorities in hiring and promotions at CUNY. Women's Studies Program co-coordinators and Brooklyn College Women's Organization members [...]

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Legal, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Employment, Lilia Melani, Sex discrimination, Women’s Movement / Feminism
Letter from BCWO to President Kneller on Sex Discrimination

This letter to Brooklyn College president John Kneller informs him of the Brooklyn College Women's Organization's (BCWO) formation of "a Discrimination Committee to investigate charges of sex discrimination against any woman on campus, having [...]

Item Type: Text (Diary / Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Legal, Women's Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College Women's Organization, Child Care, Demands, John Kneller, Lilia Melani, Renate Bridenthal, Women’s Movement / Feminism

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