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"Save Hostos Now!"

In March of 1975, the Community Coalition to Save Hostos took over the school in protest over the Board of Higher Education’s decision to close Hostos Community College. This flier announces the occupation of the school and articulates the demands [...]

Item Type: Text (Flier / Leaflet (1 or 2 page handout))
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Board of Higher Education, Buildings and/or Architecture, Community Colleges, Open Admissions, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations, Tuition
Tags: Budget Cuts, Coalition, Hostos Community College, Protest, Student Activism
"Why Struggle? For Hostos and Education"

This leaflet, distributed by the Community Coalition to Save Hostos, announces a march to the headquarters of the Emergency Financial Control Board (EFCB) in May of 1976. The EFCB was the body put in place to manage the budget crisis plaguing New [...]

Item Type: Text (Article / Essay)
Time Period: 1970-1977 Open Admissions - Fiscal Crisis - State Takeover
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Austerity, Board of Higher Education, Community Colleges, Relationships with Communities, Student Organizations, Tuition
Tags: Budget Cuts, City Hall, Demands, Hostos Community College, Protest
John Hyland Oral History Interview

This oral history interview was conducted on July 23, 2014 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Beginning his career as a Catholic priest in Brooklyn's Bedford Stuyvesant neighborhood, John Hyland then became an English professor at LaGuardia Community [...]

Item Type: Oral History (Digital)
Time Periods: 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
Subjects: 1970s Fiscal Crisis, Activism, Community Colleges, CUNY Administration, Labor Unions, Open Admissions, Relationships with Communities, State and/or City budget, Student Organizations, Tuition
Tags: Bedford-Stuyvesant, Chancellor Albert Bowker, City University Unity Caucus (CUUC), Civil Rights Movement, Debbie Bell, Herb Gutman, LaGuardia Community College, New Caucus, Professional Staff Congress, Religion

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