Tweet: My CUNY students are literally driving delivery trucks while taking online classes
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Tweet: My CUNY students are literally driving delivery trucks while taking online classes
Description
This tweet from August 2020 by a CUNY faculty member responded to US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez support for CUNY by highlighting CUNY students' essential labor while they are trying to learn at CUNY in the midst of the pandemic.
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
Profromance, Ph.D.
Source
CUNY Distance Learning Archive
Publisher
Twitter
Date
October 28, 2020
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Obtained from Contributor - Copyright Unknown
Language
English
uri
https://twitter.com/prof_romance/status/1321530849330896900
Transcription
@AOC My CUNY students are literally driving delivery trucks while taking online classes because we've failed to give them an affordable education and a safety net. Cursing those feeding off their labor is the only logical response @CutCovidNotCUNY
Profromance, Ph.D. “Tweet: My CUNY Students Are Literally Driving Delivery Trucks While Taking Online Classes”. Twitter. https://twitter.com/prof_romance/status/1321530849330896900, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1935