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Song: "Hit the Road Matt: Good riddance to a reprehensible Chancellor!"

This version of the Ray Charles classic was written by members of the Graduate Center General Assembly and Adjunct Project on the occasion of CUNY Chancellor Matthew Goldstein's June 2013 retirement. The song references ongoing scandals over which [...]

Item Type: Text (Flier / Leaflet (1 or 2 page handout))
Time Period: 2010-2020 From OWS to Covid-19
Subjects: Activism, Adjunct or Contingent Labor, Admissions, Austerity, Board of Trustees, CUNY Administration, CUNY Centralization, Diversity, Faculty Governance, Financial Aid, Open Admissions, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Retirees, Student Organizations, Tuition
Tags: Adjunct, Baruch College, Brooklyn College, Graduate Center General Assembly, Matthew Goldstein, Medgar Evers College, Open Admissions, Pathways
Tiger Paper, April 1973

This issue of the Tiger Paper leads with a story describing student demonstrations against the "threatened" implementation of tuition across CUNY campuses. It also features articles centered around "International Women's Day" and the Vietnam [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Buildings and/or Architecture, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Open Admissions, Politics, Tuition
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Edgar Draper, Editorial, Faculty Publication, Vietnam War
SLAM! Program Working Document

SLAM!'s 10-Point Program outlines the organization's vision for transformation of the university and society, from access for all to free quality higher education to democratic governance by students, workers and faculty; education for liberation; [...]

Item Type: Text (Flier / Leaflet (1 or 2 page handout))
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Activism, CUNY Centralization, Diversity, Faculty Governance, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, Student Organizations, Tuition
Tags: Campus Security, Racial Injustice, Statement of Purpose
"Education is a Right"

"Education is a Right" produced in 1994 by Labor at the Crossroads, also known as Labor X, sought to understand some of the protest tactics, which made the 1989 CUNY strikes at least temporarily successful in fighting tuition hikes. In light of [...]

Item Type: Video/Moving Image (VHS)
Time Period: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: Activism, Admissions, Austerity, Diversity, Open Admissions, Politics, Student Organizations, Tuition
Tags: Alice Walker, CUNY Strike, Labor at the Crossroads, Mark Torres, Richard Barickman, Richard Carter, Sheila Collins, Stephen Brier, Stuart Ewen, Vivian Brady

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