Tweet: #CloseCUNY Activism & NYC Higher Education

Posted on March 10, 2020, this tweet reflected on the pandemic response efforts of private NYC universities compared to public universities like the City University of New York (CUNY). For many community members, the difference between university responses was linked to class dynamics. CUNY supports a largely immigrant and working-class population, serving as the best option for higher education to many of New York City's marginalized communities. Compared to the student populations at neighboring NYU and Columbia University, there is a stark class difference. To many members of the CUNY community, such class differences contributed to the marked apathy for the health of CUNY students.

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.

Bonabon, Neil

CUNY Distance Learning Archive

Twitter

March 11, 2020

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https://twitter.com/Maison_Hikari/status/1237557448862388224

"Crazy how all the rich, private NYC universities have already moved to remote classes while #CUNY public universities are still taking a gamble with student's health - many of whom commute

#CloseCUNY"