Tweet: CUNY/SUNY Pandemic Response & Student Wellbeing

Posted on March 11, 2020, this tweet echoed related Twitter artifacts from this collection in scrutinizing the perceived lack of preparedness and administrative indifference of the City University of New York (CUNY) toward the health and safety of its student population. In its desire for "high school students" to be "looking" at how CUNY was dealing with COVID-19, the tweet also gestured toward a sense of posterity for the institutional landscape of public higher education. These locally situated perspectives on the university's response to the pandemic, in turn, reflected a longstanding, historically charged relationship between CUNY as an institution and the broader community of NYC citizens.

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.

Lana’s Little Monster

CUNY Distance Learning Archive

Twitter

March 11, 2020

English

https://twitter.com/LeaveM3AlonePld/status/1237548148727271431

i really hope high school students are looking at how
@cuny
and
@suny
is handling the coronavirus and decide to NOT attend one of their schools. CUNY/SUNY DO NOT CARE ABOUT THE WELL BEING OF THEIR STUDENTS. #CloseTheSchools #CloseCUNY #CloseSUNY