Safety Measures at The Graduate Center

Taken by Charles Scott, Director of Facilities at the CUNY Graduate Center between March 2020 and May 2021, these pictures showed some of the ways in which administration and staff worked towards creating the conditions for a safe working and learning environment, as per CDC and NY State guidelines. While only a few essential workers were allowed in/required to enter the building after Governor Cuomo's March 13 executive order, over the following months, Scott and his staff explored a mired of ways in which the Graduate Center (a building where the majority of classrooms and offices have no windows nor access to natural light and air) could be safe for students, staff, and faculty.

This item is part of the City University of New York (CUNY) Distance Learning Archive, a group project developed as part of Matthew K. Golds 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, we wanted to document the moment of crisis response with a critical approach to educational technology.

Scott, Charles

CUNY Distance Learning Archive

March 2020 (Circa)

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