Tweet: Defense of CUNY by Student

This tweet expressed a counter-narrative to the antagonism against City University of New York (CUNY) administration seen in other items in this collection, pointing out that the nature of CUNY's student body forced questions of equity to guide its decision to close the campuses while remaining open remotely. Though many artifacts in this collection underscore the expedited nature of the closing of private NYC institutions (see "Tweet: Student Complaint"), it is worth recalling that a large proportion of working-class and immigrant students who attend CUNY are reliant on its continued provision of a range of resources. Such artifacts demonstrated how the operation of CUNY is not simply a question of public health or economics but also of equity and accessibility.

This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Prof. Matthew K. Gold's Spring 2020 Knowledge Infrastructures seminar in the Ph.D. Program in English at The Graduate Center, CUNY, in partnership with the Interactive Technology and Pedagogy Certificate Program. The project's goal was to resist or trouble the discourse of catastrophe around the shift to online learning caused by the COVID-19 pandemic by documenting the lived experiences of students, faculty, and staff across CUNY's 25 campuses. Further, the project wanted to document the moment of crisis response by taking a critical approach to educational technology.

Alexa the human

CUNY Distance Learning Archive

Twitter

March 10, 2020

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English

https://twitter.com/Alexa_the_human/status/1237425475439427584

#CUNY is hesitant to close because they are worried students without broadband access will suffer. This is a legitimate concern, that takes into account the financial realities of CUNY students. Not closing puts those same students (and elder family members) at risk. #closecuny

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