CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE

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Selected Facebook Posts from CUNY Confessions

This item offered a curated selection of informally written Facebook posts documenting student life during the abrupt transition to distance learning in mid-March of 2020. Drawing from the "CUNY Confessions" Facebook group, these compiled posts [...]

"CUNY should cut the tuition."

Posted on July 24, 2020, this Reddit thread recorded conversations around students' desire for the City University of New York (CUNY) to reduce the cost of tuition given the pitfalls of online learning and the diminished return on investment [...]

"I really don't know if I can do another semester online"

Posted on November 2, 2020, this Reddit thread documented responses to one student's post on the mental and emotional toll that online learning had on them and how their needs have neither been met by their instructors nor the CUNY system. Ensuing [...]

"Having a breakdown falling behind in online classes"

In this Reddit thread, posted on April 2, 2020, one student wrote about their experience of falling behind in their coursework, leading to "having a breakdown" during the Covid-19 pandemic. The student attributed their problem to the lack of [...]

"im tired of these professors"

Posted on April 15, 2020, this Reddit thread featured a post by an "essential worker" at the City University of New York (CUNY) student who felt their professors were ignorant to the stresses and responsibilities of over-extended students employed [...]

Miranda Fedock's TLC Thread on Trauma-Informed Pedagogy

Posted on behalf of Teaching and Learning Center Fellow Miranda Fedock on October 3, 2020, by The Graduate Center's TLC, this Twitter thread provided commentary and guidance on the pressing importance of trauma-informed pedagogy during the Covid-19 [...]

"has anyone been told something rather alarming about the final exam policy on Internet outages?"

This Reddit thread, posted on April 2, 2020, documented one student's concerns over the assessment policies of their class if they were to suffer a network outage and were unable to complete a given test as a result of such connectivity concerns. [...]


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