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"College Head Here Quits After Strife"

This New York Times article reports the resignation of Borough of Manhattan Community College president Murray Block following May 1970 demonstrations that ended with students and faculty occupying the college's buildings. Block's replacement was [...]

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: Activism, Board of Higher Education, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Politics
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Edgar Draper, Media / Press, Police, Protest, Vietnam War
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, February 1973

This special issue of the Tiger Paper addresses the ongoing "struggle" over control of the Black Studies program at BMCC. The paper's editors, along with a group of radical students, supported the poet and educator Sonia Sanchez for the [...]

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, Ethnic, Black or Latino Studies, Politics, Relationships with Communities
Tags: Borough of Manhattan Community College, Curriculum, Edgar Draper, Editorial, Faculty Publication, Sonia Sanchez
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
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

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