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New York Times: "CUNY To Tighten Admissions Policy At 4-Year Schools," May 27, 1998

This article from The New York Times reviews the decision made by CUNY’s Board of Trustees on May 26, 1998 to end the nearly three decade-long open admissions standards that had shaped the university system since 1970. The new plan, to shift [...]

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Activism, Admissions, Board of Trustees, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Open Admissions, Politics, Remediation
Tags: Baruch College, Brooklyn College, City College of New York, College of Staten Island, Governor George Pataki, Hunter College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Lehman College, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Medgar Evers College, New York City College of Technology, Queens College, York College
Oral History Interview with Kamau Franklin

In this interview, Kamau Franklin discussed his experiences as an organizer with the Student Liberation Action Movement (SLAM!) and other organizations in New York in the 1990s, namely the Student Power Movement and the Malcolm X Grassroots [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges, 2000-2010 Centralization of CUNY
Subjects: Activism, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Ashanti Alston, Baruch College, Brooklyn College, Kai Lumumba-Barrow, Make the Road, Malcolm X Grassroots Movement, Moral Mondays, Student Liberation Action Movement, Student Power Movement

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