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, November 1971

This inaugural issue of the Tiger Paper takes on the BMCC administration over mismangement of student fees and interference in student government. It also contains stories on BMCC's newly-inaugurated childcare center, a feature on the travails of [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Austerity, CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Gender, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Governor Nelson Rockefeller
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
Fifty Years of Educating for Justice - 50th Anniversary of John Jay College of Criminal Justice - digital exhibition

This digital exhibition celebrates the 50th Anniversary of John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "From its evolution as a small school serving New York’s uniformed services, John Jay has grown to an internationally renowned liberal arts university [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Periods: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover, 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition, 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges, 2000-2010 Centralization of CUNY, 2010-2020 From OWS to Covid-19
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Buildings and/or Architecture, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Open Admissions, Relationships with Communities, State and/or City budget, Student Organizations
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, GI Bill, Graduation, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Social Class
January 29, 1970 Request for Creation of a Department of Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College

This January 29, 1970, letter, written by Professor Josephine Nieves, Director of the Institute for Puerto Rican Studies at Brooklyn College (BC), makes an official request to found a Department of Puerto Rican Studies at the college. The letter [...]

Item Type: Text (Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Puerto Rican Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Curriculum, Curriculum Transformation, Dean Albaum, Department of Puerto Rican Studies, Institute of Puerto Rican Studies, John Kneller, Josephine Nieves, Puerto Rican Studies
February 6, 1971 Letter from the Puerto Rican Faculty and Staff Organization to the Brooklyn College President Office Announcing the formation of the New Organization

A February 6, 1971 letter from the newly formed Puerto Rican Faculty & Staff Organization to the Brooklyn College (BC) president, details the organization's objectives to racially and culturally transform the BC campus. The letter specifically noted [...]

Item Type: Text (Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Pedagogy, Puerto Rican Studies
Tags: Bilingual Education, bilingual programs, Brooklyn College, English as a Second Language, Puerto Rican Faculty, Puerto Rican Faculty & Staff, Puerto Rican Students

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