CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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Student Help Project Timeline

The Student Help Project was a collective of Queens College student activists who volunteered to tutor schoolchildren in Jamaica, Queens and Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1963. The Student Help Project Timeline exhibits archival items donated by [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Queens College, Racial Injustice, Student Activism, Student Help Project
Student Help Project Art Book

The Student Help Project Art Book was produced by Queens College graphic design students to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Student Help Project. The Art Book visualizes the legal struggle for desegregation and equal opportunity to quality [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Queens College, Racial Injustice, Student Activism, Student Help Project
Oral History Interview with Henry Arce

In this interview conducted about CUNY’s Open Admissions program, Arce describes his journey from the NYC Public School system to graduating from college. He credits his mother, who raised him alone in a Puerto Rican, immigrant community, for [...]

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: Activism, Diversity, NYC Public Schools, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities
Tags: 5 Demands, Black Panthers, City College of New York, Diana Ramírez de Arellano, Harlem University, ONYX, Puerto Ricans Involved in Students Action (PRISA), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Minutes of the Board of Higher Education - November 25, 1968

These minutes of proceedings from the November 25, 1968 meeting of the Board of Higher Education record the establishment of new admissions criteria for CUNY four-year institutions as well as university-wide budget requests for the following year. [...]

Item Type: Text
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Admissions, Board of Higher Education, Community Colleges, Diversity, NYC Public Schools, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities
Tags: Community College Number Seven, Experimental Education, Medgar Evers College, SEEK

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