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Oral History Interview with Sandi Cooper

In this 2018 interview Sandi Cooper, history professor emerita, reflects on her six decade-long involvement with the university, its students, and the faculty senate. Cooper, whose research specialty focuses on peace studies, spent the majority of [...]

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, 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, Academic Freedom, Activism, Board of Trustees, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Gender, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, State and/or City budget, Women's Studies
Tags: Benno Schmidt, Chancellor Ann Reynolds, City Hall, College of Staten Island, Congressman Herman Badillo, CUNY Graduate Center, Experimental Education, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Mina Shaughnessy, Pathways, Peace Studies, Professional Staff Congress, Sandi Cooper, Staten Island, Union contract, Veterans, Vietnam War, Women’s Movement / Feminism
York College 1973 Demonstration

York College students join PSC pickets in opposing the May 1973 contract impasse. Demonstrators raise issues around tenure quotas, budget cuts, open admissions and the Professional Staff Congress union contract.

Item Type: Image (Photograph)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Tuition
Tags: Budget Cuts, Student Activism, Tenure Quota, Union contract, York College
PSC Contract Rally

The Professional Staff Congress (PSC) struggled to win its first contract from CUNY in 1972 and 1973. It called on support from others in the labor movement to help put pressure on the CUNY administration. At this meeting, President Belle Zeller of [...]

Item Type: Image (Photograph)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, CUNY Administration, Labor Unions, Open Admissions
Tags: Albert Shanker, Arnold Cantor, Belle Zeller, Chancellor Robert Kibbee, Faculty Compensation, Israel Kugler, New York State United Teachers, Professional Staff Congress, Thomas Hobart, Union contract, United Federation of Teachers

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