"Not a Novel Crisis at CUNY" (Gotham Gazette)
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Title
"Not a Novel Crisis at CUNY" (Gotham Gazette)
Description
This May 2020 Gotham Gazette article by a CUNY College of Staten Island professor, addressed the ways these austerity measures fit into a longer CUNY history of struggle. The article notes that even before the pandemic, CUNY colleges had struggled to provide sufficient resources needed for its students' education, and connected such struggles to broader city budget cuts in institutions that low-income CUNY communities relied on, for example, the Metropolitan Transit Authority.
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
Brim, Matt
Date
May 6, 2020
Language
English
Publisher
Gotham Gazette
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Source
CUNY Distance Learning Archive
uri
https://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/130-opinion/9351-not-a-novel-crisis-cuny-coronavirus-state-budget
Brim, Matt. “‘Not a Novel Crisis at CUNY’ (Gotham Gazette)”. Gotham Gazette. https://www.gothamgazette.com/opinion/130-opinion/9351-not-a-novel-crisis-cuny-coronavirus-state-budget, CUNY DIGITAL HISTORY ARCHIVE, accessed March 10, 2026, https://stephenz.tailc22a4b.ts.net/s/cdha/item/1940