CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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Oral History Interview with Sandi Cooper

In this 2018 interview Sandi Cooper, history professor emerita, reflects on her six decade-long involvement with the university, its students, and the faculty senate. Cooper, whose research specialty focuses on peace studies, spent the majority of [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The 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, 2010-2020 From OWS to Covid-19
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Academic Freedom, Activism, Board of Trustees, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Gender, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, State and/or City budget, Women's Studies
Tags: Benno Schmidt, Chancellor Ann Reynolds, City Hall, College of Staten Island, Congressman Herman Badillo, CUNY Graduate Center, Experimental Education, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, Mina Shaughnessy, Pathways, Peace Studies, Professional Staff Congress, Sandi Cooper, Staten Island, Union contract, Veterans, Vietnam War, Women’s Movement / Feminism
CUNY's Board of Higher Education Meeting to Approve Study of Women and Sex Roles (CSWS)

This Summary of Action Taken at the November 22, 1976, Meeting of CUNY's Board of Higher Education contained a report of the approval of the Institute for the Study of Women and Sex Roles, which became the Center for the Study of Women and Society [...]

Item Type: Text (Notes / Minutes)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, CUNY Administration, Women's Studies
Tags: Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center, Women's Studies Certificate Program
Institute for the Study of Women and Sex Roles Bylaws

This two-page report detailed the Institute for the Study of Women and Sex Roles' purpose and scope, need, functions, audience, space required, estimated costs, sources of funds, and relation to existing centers, schools, and institutes in the [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: CUNY Administration, Women's Studies
Tags: Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center, Women's Studies Certificate Program
Institute for the Study of Women and Sex Roles Proposal Addendum

This addendum to the proposal for an Institute for the Study of Women and Sex Roles, which would later become the Center for the Study of Women and Society (CSWS), gave a clearer picture of the Institute's desired role in the CUNY system. Expressed [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: CUNY Administration, Gender, Women's Studies
Tags: Center for the Study of Women and Society, CUNY Graduate Center, Women's Studies Certificate Program

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