CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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Inside City Hall - "Full Scale Assault on the City's Community College System" (1998)

This video features a broadcast of NY1's Inside City Hall from 1998 that focuses on the then-newly released preliminary budget for the university. As was consistent through much of Giuliani's mayorality in the 1990s, many of his criticisms of the [...]

Item Type: Video/Moving Image (VHS)
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Admissions, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Politics, Remediation
Tags: Graduation Rates, High School, Mayor Ed Koch, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Open Admissions, Randy Mastro
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
Statement of Policy by the Board of Higher Education

This "statement of policy", attached to the minutes from a meeting of the Board of Higher Education on July 9, 1969, reflects the culmination of negotiations between college officials and protesting City College students. The students, most of whom [...]

Item Type: Text (Notes / Minutes)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Admissions, Board of Higher Education, CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Open Admissions
Tags: 5 Demands, Black and Puerto Rican Studies, Board of Higher Education, Chancellor Albert Bowker, City College of New York, Open Admissions, Porter R. Chandler

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