Hostos Community College
1978
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Why the History of CUNY Matters
The history of CUNY is the history of marginalized communities in New York City fighting for equitable access to quality higher education. CUNY's historic mission to educate "the children of the whole people" is sustained by a vibrant community of educators and activists that work to create liberatory spaces through landmark experiments in democratic education. The CUNY Digital History Archive is a participatory project, a counter-institutional archive that centers the experiences of students, workers, faculty, community residents, retirees, and alumni. We take an active approach to documenting CUNY history from the ground up, because we believe that today's students deserve to know the people's history of the people's university.
Explore Time Periods
- 1847 - 1945 The First Century of Public Higher Education in NYC
- 1946 - 1960 Municipal College Expansion
- 1961 - 1969 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 - Present OWS and Beyond
