CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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

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Student Help Project Timeline

The Student Help Project was a collective of Queens College student activists who volunteered to tutor schoolchildren in Jamaica, Queens and Prince Edward County, Virginia in 1963. The Student Help Project Timeline exhibits archival items donated by [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Queens College, Racial Injustice, Student Activism, Student Help Project
Student Help Project Art Book

The Student Help Project Art Book was produced by Queens College graphic design students to commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Student Help Project. The Art Book visualizes the legal struggle for desegregation and equal opportunity to quality [...]

Item Type: Hyperlink
Time Period: 1961-1969 The Creation of CUNY - Open Admissions Struggle
Subjects: Activism, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Civil Rights Movement, Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Queens College, Racial Injustice, Student Activism, Student Help Project
Oral History Interview with Henry Arce

In this interview conducted about CUNY’s Open Admissions program, Arce describes his journey from the NYC Public School system to graduating from college. He credits his mother, who raised him alone in a Puerto Rican, immigrant community, for [...]

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: Activism, Diversity, NYC Public Schools, Open Admissions, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities
Tags: 5 Demands, Black Panthers, City College of New York, Diana Ramírez de Arellano, Harlem University, ONYX, Puerto Ricans Involved in Students Action (PRISA), Students for a Democratic Society (SDS)
Free University Week - 1st Annual May Day Course Descriptions

This pamphlet features workshops, teach-ins and events planned for the 1st annual Free University of New York City on May 1, 2012, in Madison Square Park, Manhattan, NY. In addition to talks by David Harvey, David Graeber, Francis Fox Piven, Chris [...]

Item Type: Text (Curricular Material)
Time Period: 2010-2020 From OWS to Covid-19
Subjects: Academic Freedom, Activism, Austerity, Diversity, Gender, Immigration, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations
Tags: Chris Hedges, David Graeber, David Harvey, Francis Fox Piven, Free University of New York City, Graduate Center General Assembly, May Day, Occupy CUNY, Student Activism
Project Enable: Training Program for Homeless Heads of Household Residing in Hotels/Shelters

This November 1986 report details the activities of a training program for homeless mothers in New York City conducted by LaGuardia Community College's Division of Continuing Education. The program, which covered personal counselling, job training [...]

Item Type: Text (Report / Paper / Proposal)
Time Period: 1978-1992 Retrenchment - Austerity - Tuition
Subjects: Activism, Admissions, City / State Relations, Community Colleges, Diversity, Gender, Health and/or Environmental Issues, NYC Public Schools, Pedagogy, Politics, Relationships with Communities, Remediation
Tags: Continuing Education, Homelessness, LaGuardia Community College

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