CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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Telegram from Al Vann: Promising Action if Services and Personnel are Withdrawn

This telegram was sent from Al Vann to CUNY Chancellor Albert Bowker. Vann, Chairman of the Steering Committee of the Bedford-Stuyvesant Coalition. Vann writes the message on behalf of the Coalition's member organizations in an effort to challenge [...]

Item Type: Text
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, Buildings and/or Architecture, CUNY Administration, Relationships with Communities
Tags: Al Vann, Bedford-Stuyvesant Coalition, Chancellor Albert Bowker, Community College Number Seven, Medgar Evers College
"York Kids March on City Hall, Call It a 'Class' Fight"

This Daily News article details a May 1968 march by York College students in protest against what they considered inadequate campus facilities. York, the newest of the CUNY schools at the time, relied on temporary space within Queensborough [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Board of Higher Education, Buildings and/or Architecture, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Politics
Tags: Bayside, Chancellor Albert Bowker, Dumont Kenny, Jamaica, Mark Powers, Queens, Queensborough Community College, York College
"Before Open Admissions there was a lot of the haves and the have-nots." – An Oral History Interview with Donal Farley

Following almost 10 years at the NYC Budget Bureau, Donal Farley began his employment at CUNY Central in 1967 as Assistant to the first Vice Chancellor for Campus Planning and Development Seymour Hyman. Under Chancellor Albert Bowker, he eventually [...]

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
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Austerity, Board of Higher Education, Board of Trustees, Buildings and/or Architecture, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Founding of CUNY, Open Admissions, Politics, Relationships with Communities, State and/or City budget, Tuition
Tags: Chancellor Albert Bowker, CUNY Construction Fund, CUNY Office of Campus Planning and Development, Governor Nelson Rockefeller, Mayor John Lindsay, Seymour C. Hyman, State Dormitory Authority

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