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"'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
State Letter of Approval for additional community college (# seven)

This NY State letter of approval for additional community college (# seven) is signed by Governor Nelson Rockefeller and directed to James Allen, his Commissioner of the State Education Department. He notes that it has yet to be confirmed that no [...]

Item Type: Item_3152
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, Buildings and/or Architecture, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Relationships with Communities
Tags: Community College Number Seven, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Medgar Evers College
"Before Open Admissions there was a lot of the haves and the have-nots." – An Oral History Interview with Donal Farley

Following almost 10 years at the NYC Budget Bureau, Donal Farley began his employment at CUNY Central in 1967 as Assistant to the first Vice Chancellor for Campus Planning and Development Seymour Hyman. Under Chancellor Albert Bowker, he eventually [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover, 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Austerity, Board of Higher Education, Board of Trustees, Buildings and/or Architecture, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Founding of CUNY, Open Admissions, Politics, Relationships with Communities, State and/or City budget, Tuition
Tags: Chancellor Albert Bowker, CUNY Construction Fund, CUNY Office of Campus Planning and Development, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Mayor John Lindsay, Seymour C. Hyman, State Dormitory Authority

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