Tweet: During the Great Depression CUNY Expanded
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Title
Tweet: During the Great Depression CUNY Expanded
Description
This tweet from May 2020, recognized NYC Public Advocate Jumaane Williams's public support for funding CUNY and his argument that CUNY had expanded during the Great Depression by opening two new senior colleges in Brooklyn and Queens. In addition to showing public solidarity with CUNY during this moment, the tweet also addresses the longer and progressive history of CUNY even in precarious times.
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.
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.
Creator
Washington, Donnalyn
Source
CUNY Distance Learning Archive
Publisher
Twitter
Date
May 11, 2020
Rights
Obtained from Contributor - Copyright Unknown
Language
English
uri
https://twitter.com/Notingshaw/status/1259842205340049412
Transcription
Happy Birthday @JumaaneWilliams and thank you for mentioning @NY1 that during the #GreatDepression of the 1930's #CUNY expanded because of the knowledge & understanding that education was the way to go #MakeBillionairesPay #cutcovidnotcuny #fundcuny @PSC_CUNY
Washington, Donnalyn. “Tweet: During the Great Depression CUNY Expanded”. Twitter. https://twitter.com/Notingshaw/status/1259842205340049412, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1924