Close CUNY Change.org Petition
Item
Title
Close CUNY Change.org Petition
Description
Started by "Concerned Student" on March 8, 2020, this petition calls on Chancellor Felix V. Matos Rodriguez to suspend the City University of New York (CUNY) schools one day after Governor Cuomo declared a formal state of emergency in New York State due to the rising spread of positive COVID-19 cases. The petition received nearly 45,000 signatures by March 11, when CUNY announced its instructional recess period and prospective formats to shift to distance learning. Following March 11, the petition continued to garner support from the CUNY community, with signatures rising in excess of 100,000, along with hundreds of attendant comments supporting the university-wide shutdown of CUNY's physical facilities and face-to-face classes.
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.
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.
Creator
"Concerned Student"
Date
March 8, 2020
Language
English
Publisher
Change.org
Rights
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Source
CUNY Distance Learning Archive
uri
https://www.change.org/p/felix-v-matos-rodriguez-save-the-cuny-students?recruiter=14603506&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi&recruited_by_id=73fb4ba0-d511-0130-0166-3c764e049b13
"Concerned Student". “Close CUNY Change.Org Petition”. Change.org. https://www.change.org/p/felix-v-matos-rodriguez-save-the-cuny-students?recruiter=14603506&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_abi&recruited_by_id=73fb4ba0-d511-0130-0166-3c764e049b13, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1827
Time Periods
2020 and Beyond: CUNY in the Era of COVID and Racial Reckoning