COVID University New York (Episode 5, "The Essential Workers")

Throughout the 2020-2021 academic year, COVID University New York (CVNY), a radio show co-produced by Racecar Radio and the Gotham Center for New York City History at the Graduate Center, discussed how the pandemic impacted vulnerable groups. In this episode, from September 2020, host Char Adams was engaged in conversation with Charles Scott, Director of Facilities at the CUNY Graduate Center, and John Krinsky, Professor of Political Science at City College. While the former shared his lived experience as an essential worker at the Graduate Center during the pandemic, the latter discussed the foreseeable long-lasting impact of the pandemic on blue-collar workers and their communities.


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 (interviewee)

Krinsky, John (interviewee)

Adams, Char (interviewer)

September 29, 2020

English

Racecar Radio

Copyrighted

CUNY Distance Learning Archive

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