Tweet: Cuts fall most viciously on community colleges
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Title
Tweet: Cuts fall most viciously on community colleges
Description
This tweet from August 2020 posted by a Graduate Center Ph.D. candidate spoke out against budget cuts at CUNY, especially those affecting community colleges and low-income students in particular. Focusing specifically on these issues was particularly relevant because CUNY's seven community colleges are often left out of such discussions, in favor of a focus on CUNY's eleven senior colleges.
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
Blain, Harry
Source
CUNY Distance Learning Archive
Publisher
Twitter
Date
August 13, 2020
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Obtained from Contributor - Copyright Unknown
Language
English
uri
https://twitter.com/HBlain/status/1293996387458326530
Transcription
No coincidence that @CUNY cuts fall most viciously on community colleges like @bcc_pres and @bmcc_cuny, as well as senior colleges like @NewsatMedgar that serve low-income communities. Shame on @ChancellorCUNY and @BillThompsonNYC #cunysummerofstruggle #cutcovidnotcuny
Blain, Harry. “Tweet: Cuts Fall Most Viciously on Community Colleges”. Twitter. https://twitter.com/HBlain/status/1293996387458326530, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1934