CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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

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Inside City Hall - "Full Scale Assault on the City's Community College System" (1998)

This video features a broadcast of NY1's Inside City Hall from 1998 that focuses on the then-newly released preliminary budget for the university. As was consistent through much of Giuliani's mayorality in the 1990s, many of his criticisms of the [...]

Item Type: Video/Moving Image (VHS)
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Admissions, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Politics, Remediation
Tags: Graduation Rates, High School, Mayor Ed Koch, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Open Admissions, Randy Mastro
Assembly Update w/ Assembly Member Ed Sullivan featuring "The Friends of CUNY" (1999)

This 1999 roundtable discussion with Assembly Member Ed Sullivan features Drs. Sandi Cooper and Michael Kahan, leaders of "The Friends of CUNY," a group formed in opposition to many of the harmful changes sought by politicians and trustees of CUNY [...]

Item Type: Video/Moving Image (VHS)
Time Periods: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges, 2000-2010 Centralization of CUNY
Subjects: Activism, Admissions, Board of Trustees, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Politics, State and/or City budget
Tags: Budget Cuts, Ed Sullivan, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Michael Kahan, Sandi Cooper, The Friends of CUNY
Report of the Citizens' Commission on the Future of the City University of New York

In November 1969, CUNY's Board of Higher Education formed and tasked the Citizens' Commission to "study the future of the University in all its aspects." Their analysis resulted in the creation of an extensive report in 1971 that detailed the [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Admissions, Austerity, Board of Higher Education, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Financial Aid, Open Admissions, State and/or City budget, Tuition
Tags: Baruch College, Budget Cuts, Citizens Commision
"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
LaGuardia Works: LaGuardia Community College, the First 25 Years

This booklet, published in 1997, tells the story of the first 25 years of LaGuardia Community College, from its conception as "Community College Number Nine" in 1968 through its 1971 opening and beyond. The author describes the social and economic [...]

Item Type: Text (Pamphlet / Petition)
Time Periods: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition, 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Admissions, Austerity, Bilingual Education, Buildings and/or Architecture, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Diversity, Faculty Governance, Financial Aid, Gender, Immigration, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, Student Organizations
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

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