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Tiger Paper, April 1973

This issue of the Tiger Paper leads with a story describing student demonstrations against the "threatened" implementation of tuition across CUNY campuses. It also features articles centered around "International Women's Day" and the Vietnam [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Buildings and/or Architecture, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Open Admissions, Politics, Tuition
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Edgar Draper, Editorial, Faculty Publication, Vietnam War
Tiger Paper, January 1974

This edition of the Tiger Paper protests the impending firing of 1,700 adjunct faculty and the consequent reduction in the number of classes offered at BMCC. "Such a move spells disaster for Open Admissions," the paper's editors write.The [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Adjunct or Contingent Labor, Board of Higher Education, Buildings and/or Architecture, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Open Admissions, Politics, State and/or City budget
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Budget Cuts, Child Care, Editorial, Faculty Publication, Puerto Rico
Tiger Paper, May 1974

This issue of the Tiger Paper leads with a blistering rebuke of a New York Times investigation into mismanagement at BMCC, one which Tiger Paper editors claim paints a falsely damning picture of students at the college. [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Board of Higher Education, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Gender, Open Admissions, Remediation, Student Organizations
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Faculty Publication, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Media / Press, Prisons, Women’s Movement / Feminism
STRIKE!, Prism, 1971

Prism was the Borough of Manhattan Community College's annual yearbook. This 35 page chapter from the 1971 edition details the student strike that, in May 1970, temporarily shut down the college and resulted in 58 arrests. Filled with photos, [...]

Item Type: Text (Book (excerpt))
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Community Colleges, Open Admissions, Student Organizations, Tuition
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Child Care, Protest, Student Activism
Voice of the Voiceless, April 20, 1998

In this issue of the BMCC student newspaper, Voice of the Voiceless, the topic of Open Admissions is given full focus with more than twenty articles contributed on the subject from students across the CUNY system. The topic was given special [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Activism, Admissions, Community Colleges, Open Admissions, Remediation, Student Organizations
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Congressman Herman Badillo, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Protest, Student Activism, Student Newspapers / Journals

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