CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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

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CUNY SEEK and Open Admissions Oral Histories

This is a website of oral histories by CUNY students and teachers telling stories about the founding and early years of SEEK at City College. It also contains stories about teaching writing in the first decade of Open Admissions across CUNY.

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Admissions, Alumni, Diversity, Financial Aid, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation
Tags: Affirmative Action, Allen B. Ballard, City College of New York, Curriculum, Eugenia Wiltshire, Francee Covington, John Brereton, Marvina White, Richard Sterling, SEEK, Social Class, Sondra Perl, Upward Mobility
A Proposal for the Establishment of Community College Number Seven

This proposal for the founding of Community College Number Seven (later named Medgar Evers College) was put forward by the Board of Higher Education in November 1967. In this excerpt (pages 11-15), the Board establishes their desire to place a new [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Admissions, Board of Higher Education, Buildings and/or Architecture, Community Colleges, Diversity, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Founding of CUNY, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Remediation, State and/or City budget
Tags: Community College Number Seven, Curriculum, Medgar Evers College
Minutes of Proceedings: Establishing Community College Number Seven

In these minutes of proceedings from a January 22, 1968 meeting of the Board of Higher Education, the Board resolves to create the "Committee to Seek Presidents for Community Colleges Seven and Eight." The committee is first tasked with filling the [...]

Item Type: Text
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Admissions, Board of Higher Education, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities
Tags: Common First Semester, Community College Number Seven, Curriculum, Experimental Education, Frederick H. Burkhardt, Medgar Evers College, Occupational Education, Porter R. Chandler

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