CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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CUNY Forum - Future of Public Higher Education

Airing on May 6, 1998, this episode of CUNY Forum features an hour-long discussion on the future of public higher education in New York City. Moderated by Brooklyn College Professor Ed Rogowsky, the forum includes several participants including [...]

Item Type: Video/Moving Image (VHS)
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Activism, Adjunct or Contingent Labor, Board of Trustees, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Financial Aid, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, State and/or City budget
Tags: Budget Cuts, Graduation Rates, Sandi Cooper
Letter from Samuel B. Gould to John H. Hughes

In this letter to New York State Senator Hughes, SUNY Chancellor Gould describes the new SUNY SEEK Program. Gould had shown copies to CUNY’s Chancellor Bowker and Julius Edelstein, CUNY’s “Coordinator of Urban Studies,” who had forwarded the [...]

Item Type: Text (Diary / Correspondence)
Subjects: Admissions, Diversity, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, State and/or City budget
Tags: Allen B. Ballard, City College of New York, Civil Rights Movement, Desegregation, Equal Opportunity Programs, Leslie Berger, Racial Justice, SEEK, Social Justice
The Mayor's Advisory Task Force Report: The City University of New York: An Institution Adrift

The Mayor's Advisory Task Force on the City University of New York issued its report, The City University of New York: An Institution Adrift, to Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani on June 7, 1999. Over the course of their investigation, they reported that [...]

Item Type: Text
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Admissions, Board of Trustees, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Founding of CUNY, Labor Unions, NYC Public Schools, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, State and/or City budget, Tuition
Tags: Affirmative Action, High School, Social Class, Transfer / Articulation
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
Press Release – A New Experimental College

In this press release, The City University of New York's Office of University Relations announces the creation of a new, experimental, two-year college to be "established on a community-oriented basis in central Brooklyn." The press release [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, Board of Trustees, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, State and/or City budget
Tags: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Bedford-Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation, Chancellor Albert Bowker, Community College Number Seven, Experimental Education, Medgar Evers College, Porter R. Chandler, The City University of New York Office of University Relations
"Education for Deaf Students at LaGuardia Community College"

This article from the CUNY Research Foundation's Annual Report of 1985 highlights the achievements of LaGuardia's programs for Deaf students.

Item Type: Text (Pamphlet / Petition)
Time Period: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: Community Colleges, Diversity, Immigration, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, State and/or City budget
Tags: Deaf Education, LaGuardia Community College
"Governor Cuomo Visits LaGuardia CC's Program for the Deaf"

This article published in a CUNY-wide bulletin describes a visit by then-governor Mario Cuomo to LaGuardia's program for Deaf adults. Recognizing the success of the program, the governor pledged $125,000 in funding for the coming year.

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: Bilingual Education, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Diversity, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, State and/or City budget
Tags: Deaf Education, LaGuardia Community College

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