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PSC/CUNY Executive Council Resolution on the Proposed Elimination of Hostos Community College

In 1976, the Executive Council of the Professional Staff Congress (PSC) produced this resolution to convey their opposition to the proposal to close multiple community college campuses in New York City’s effort to save money. They also resolved [...]

Item Type: Text (Resolution / Legislation)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Austerity, Board of Higher Education, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Labor Unions, Relationships with Communities, State and/or City budget
Tags: Bronx Community College, Budget Cuts, College of Staten Island, Hostos Community College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Medgar Evers College, New York City College of Technology, Professional Staff Congress, Solidarity
Gerald Meyer Statement on the 500 Grand Concourse Building

Gerald Meyer, a founding faculty member at Hostos Community College and President of the Hostos chapter of the Professional Staff Congress made this statement at a press conference held on March 30, 1976. The statement articulates that facilities at [...]

Item Type: Text (Diary / Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Austerity, Bilingual Education, Buildings and/or Architecture, Community Colleges, Labor Unions, Relationships with Communities
Tags: Hostos Community College, Movement Building, Professional Staff Congress, Protest, Student Activism
Oral History Interview with Vera Weekes

Originally from Montserrat, Vera Weekes discusses her experience immigrating to the United States in 1989 and her subsequent decades at Medgar Evers College beginning in 1990. A senior paralegal and a Board of Immigration Appeals accredited [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition, 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Activism, Diversity, Immigration, Politics, Relationships with Communities, State and/or City budget
Tags: Albany, Higher Education Officer (HEO), Medgar Evers College, Professional Staff Congress, Undocumented Students / Immigrants, Upward Mobility
John Hyland Oral History Interview

This oral history interview was conducted on July 23, 2014 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Beginning his career as a Catholic priest in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood, John Hyland then became an English professor at LaGuardia Community [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 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
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Relationships with Communities, State and/or City budget, Student Organizations, Tuition
Tags: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Chancellor Albert Bowker, City University Unity Caucus (CUUC), Civil Rights Movement, Debbie Bell, Herb Gutman, LaGuardia Community College, New Caucus, Professional Staff Congress, Religion

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