"Cutting Us to the Bone is No Way to Run a University System" (Queens Daily Eagle)
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Title
"Cutting Us to the Bone is No Way to Run a University System" (Queens Daily Eagle)
Description
This Queens Eagle article, written in May 2020 by a Queens College professor in the English Department, describes budget cuts at CUNY in general and i as they relate to the history of Queens College in particular. The focus on a single CUNY college includes historical quotes from various moments in Queens College's history where cuts were expected to be made, including one by a former Queens College president explaining that there was nothing left to cut at the college and another from a contingent faculty member asking in 1989 for a tax on the rich in 1989, a parallel to such calls 30 years later.
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
Weingarten, Karen
Date
May 28, 2020
Language
English
Publisher
Queens Eagle
Rights
Obtained from Contributor - Copyright Unknown
Source
CUNY Distance Learning Archive
uri
https://queenseagle.com/all/karen-weingarten-queens-college-cuny-cutting-to-the-bone
Weingarten, Karen. “‘Cutting Us to the Bone Is No Way to Run a University System’ (Queens Daily Eagle)”. Queens Eagle. https://queenseagle.com/all/karen-weingarten-queens-college-cuny-cutting-to-the-bone, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1938