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25 Years of Progress: Professional Staff Congress/CUNY

In celebration of their 25th anniversary, the Professional Staff Congress/CUNY (PSC) published this collection of articles written by Irwin Yellowitz, "professor emeritus of history at City College and a former PSC treasurer." The articles and [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Adjunct or Contingent Labor, Austerity, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Labor Unions, Pedagogy, State and/or City budget
Tags: Budget Cuts, Chancellor Joseph S. Murphy, Chancellor Robert Kibbee, Governor George Pataki, Governor Mario Cuomo, Legislative Conference, Mayor Abraham Beame, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Professional Staff Congress, United Federation of College Teachers
New York Times: "CUNY To Tighten Admissions Policy At 4-Year Schools," May 27, 1998

This article from The New York Times reviews the decision made by CUNY’s Board of Trustees on May 26, 1998 to end the nearly three decade-long open admissions standards that had shaped the university system since 1970. The new plan, to shift [...]

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1993-1999 End of Remediation and Open Admissions in Senior Colleges
Subjects: Activism, Admissions, Board of Trustees, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Open Admissions, Politics, Remediation
Tags: Baruch College, Brooklyn College, City College of New York, College of Staten Island, Governor George Pataki, Hunter College, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Lehman College, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Medgar Evers College, New York City College of Technology, Queens College, York College

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