CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

A participatory project to collect and preserve the histories of the City University of New York

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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
Tiger Paper, April 1972

This edition of the Tiger Paper includes: interviews with BMCC students who were veterans of the Vietnam War, criticism of the college's registration process, a front page article detailing the firing of a professor, and an interview [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Gender, Labor Unions, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Child Care, Edgar Draper, Editorial, Faculty Publication, Jose Antonio Irizarry, Legislative Conference, United Federation of College Teachers, Vietnam War
Tiger Paper, March 1974

This issue of the Tiger Paper exposes what the editors consider a sham testimonial dinner for BMCC President Edgar Draper. Other articles of interest include an extended interview with a BMCC student who served in Vietnam, the detailing of [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Buildings and/or Architecture, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Labor Unions, Politics
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Child Care, Edgar Draper, Editorial, Faculty Publication, Vietnam War, Women’s Movement / Feminism
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
Tiger Paper, November 1971

This inaugural issue of the Tiger Paper takes on the BMCC administration over mismangement of student fees and interference in student government. It also contains stories on BMCC's newly-inaugurated childcare center, a feature on the travails of [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Austerity, CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Gender, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Governor Nelson Rockefeller
Tiger Paper, February 1972

This issue of the Tiger Paper contains humorous takedowns of the college administration, a call for free subways, a critique of the state of nursing education, and an extended interview with radical poet Sonia Sanchez.The Tiger Paper, which [...]

Item Type: Text (Newspaper / Magazine / Journal)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Academic Freedom, Activism, Board of Higher Education, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Gender, Health and/or Environmental Issues, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Edgar Draper, Editorial, Faculty Publication, Media / Press, Sonia Sanchez
Oral History Interview with Bill Friedheim and Jim Perlstein of Borough of Manhattan Community College

This oral history interview with retired Borough of Manhattan Community College professors Bill Friedheim and Jim Perlstein was conducted at the CUNY Graduate Center on June 1, 2015. Friedheim and Perlstein were intimately involved in many of the [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle, 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Academic Freedom, Activism, Board of Trustees, Buildings and/or Architecture, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Faculty Governance, Gender, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation, Student Organizations
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College
"City's Personnel Policies Called Biased"

This New York Times article outlines charges against the city that alleged discrimination against women and racial minorities in hiring and promotions at CUNY. Women's Studies Program co-coordinators and Brooklyn College Women's Organization members [...]

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Legal, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Employment, Lilia Melani, Sex discrimination, Women’s Movement / Feminism
City Council Press Release on Sex Discrimination

This press release from the New York City Council Office of Public Information announces Councilmember Carol Greitzer's accusation that the Board of Education "discriminated against thousands of women employees at a financial loss running into the [...]

Item Type: Text (Memorandum)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Gender, Legal, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Board of Higher Education, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College Women's Organization, City Hall, Employment, Media / Press, Sex discrimination, Women’s Movement / Feminism
Letter from BCWO to President Kneller on Sex Discrimination

This letter to Brooklyn College president John Kneller informs him of the Brooklyn College Women's Organization's (BCWO) formation of "a Discrimination Committee to investigate charges of sex discrimination against any woman on campus, having [...]

Item Type: Text (Diary / Correspondence)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, City / State Relations, CUNY Administration, Diversity, Gender, Legal, Women's Studies
Tags: Brooklyn College, Brooklyn College Women's Organization, Child Care, Demands, John Kneller, Lilia Melani, Renate Bridenthal, Women’s Movement / Feminism
"U.S. Court Rules Against City U. in Sex-Bias Suit"

Ten years after a class action lawsuit was filed in 1973 by 25 women faculty across CUNY campuses, a federal judge ruled that CUNY had "discriminated unlawfully against women on its teaching staff for 15 years by paying them less than men in [...]

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: Activism, CUNY Administration, Faculty Governance, Gender, Legal, Politics, Women's Studies
Tags: Board of Higher Education, Brooklyn College, Lilia Melani, Media / Press, Sex discrimination, Women’s Movement / Feminism

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